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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an investigation into the UK’s largest housebuilders as it warns of “fundamental concerns”...

New guidance spells out how leniency can be exercised on agencies or individuals who inform on anti-competition cartels of the kind that...

The estate agency industry is still under the spotlight for possible illegal price fixing cartels according to the Competition and Markets...

The Competition and Markets Authority - which yesterday announced it had disqualified two estate agency directors for their parts in a...

The Competitions and Markets Authority has started court proceedings seeking the disqualification of two estate agency directors over a price fixing...

A new call has been issued this morning by the Competition and Markets Authority for estate agents to confess if their...

The Competition and Markets Authority says it wants to send “a strong signal” to the estate agency industry that price-fixing will...

The Competition and Markets Authority has released a 135 page document giving explicit details of its latest agency cartel investigation. This includes...

The public are being asked to inform the authorities if they know of agents operating fee-fixing cartels. The request - from the...

The Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally found that four agencies broke competition law by taking part in a price fixing...

Proceedings against an estate agent at the centre of a fees cartel case have been dropped following his agreement not to stand as...

Connells’ brand Gascoigne Halman has lost its appeal against OnTheMarket. Gascoigne Halman challenged OTM’s old ‘one other portal’ rule at the Competition...

The government policies and enforcement plans for anti-money laundering measures are set to take centre stage at next month’s annual conference...

The Competitions and Markets Authority says the result of its latest probe into estate agencies’ possible infringement of the Competition Act...

The Competitions and Markets Authority is investigating a suspect infringement of the Competition Act 1998 by estate agents. Few details have been...

The fact is that most house hunters simply do not have the time, let alone the inclination, to trawl around properties...

The Competition and Markets Authority has set out precisely what agents and other companies can and cannot do in the event...

The decision by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to fine five estate agents for engaging in a price fixing cartel has...

The Competition and Markets Authority has for the first time published details of the findings against a group of six estate...

Agents’ Mutual says it will be seeking to recover costs and compensation for losses incurred after what is widely seen as...

Some big news in the agency world last week won’t have escaped the attention of many in the industry. Last Thursday news...

The Competition and Markets Authority has now fined agents over £1m in two landmark cases concerning price-fixing - and it says...

Four Somerset estate agents have agreed to pay fines totalling over £370,000 to the Competition and Markets Authority, after admitting illegal price-fixing.   The...

A fine of £735,000 imposed on an association of estate and letting agents and a local newspaper publisher has been described...

One estate agency leader - you’d all recognise his name - described the victory of the Leave camp in the referendum...

The Competition and Markets Authority - which has been active in the estate agency industry since its inception in April 2014...

A London agent says he has quit OnTheMarket and Agents’ Mutual as a result of the intervention of the Competitions and Markets...

One of the directors of Agents’ Mutual, parent body of portal OnTheMarket, has told Estate Agent Today that his firm does...

The consumer is King and to protect sellers and buyers' best interests estate and letting agents have to operate in the...

Readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given an exclusive opportunity to pose questions to Zoopla Property Group...

The Competition and Markets Authority says it is still monitoring the major property portals.  A statement to Estate Agent Today by the...

The estate agency industry is “in the sights of” the Competitions and Markets Authority according to a competition lawyer. “All the evidence...

The internet and rapidly evolving digital landscape has revolutionised the way people buy and sell properties. With some reports suggesting 95 per...

The Competition and Markets Authority has used Twitter to inform agents of the risks of joining trade assocaitons with loosely-worded or...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team (NTSEAT) is to meet with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to discuss complaints...