A well-known Surrey estate agent has rebranded. Burns & Webber is rebranding to adopt its parent company’s name Curchods. The four Burns &...
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![Inspirational speaker named for Propertymark One conference](/upload/images/shutterstock_1747921001.jpg)
Author and broadcaster Katie Piper is set to take to the stage at the Propertymark One Conference at the ExCel London...
15 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![New acquisition takes fast-growing agency to nine branches](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyTransaction-400x310.jpg)
One of Scotland’s leading legal and estate agency, Pacitti Jones, is continuing to expand. This week it has snapped up Tip Top...
11 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![The cold facts about winter property checks](/upload/images/library/winter-homes400x310.png)
Property checks can be the bane of a letting agent’s life if left unchecked. Throw in the winter weather, and you’ve...
29 January 2022
From: Features
![Quids in! Agency listing mistakenly goes live with £1 asking price](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UK-Cash-NEW-400x310.jpg)
Every agent likes to have their phones ringing off the hook. So London agent Robert Irving Burns must have been excited when...
21 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![Just Window Dressing! Leasehold experts hit out at reform proposals](/img/default/eat.png)
Leading leasehold experts have sharply criticised the much-hyped reforms announced by the government last week. The Leasehold Group of Companies - formerly led by...
11 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Boomin signs online agency amongst 10 new founding members](/img/default/eat.png)
Fledgling portal Boomin - launching later this month - has announced another 10 independent regional agencies as founder members. This includes its...
05 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - no holiday for industry fund-raisers…](/img/default/eat.png)
There are high hopes that the new stamp duty holiday will make an already busy market even busier - but not...
10 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Tragedy as widely-respected property campaigner dies suddenly](/img/default/eat.png)
The death has been announced of one of the country’s leading campaigners against the injustices of the leasehold system, Louie Burns. Burns...
22 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Industry welcome for clampdown on developers’ leasehold sales](/img/default/eat.png)
There’s been a broad welcome from agents and other industry organisations for the latest report from the Competition and Markets Authority...
02 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![“Fat cat freeholders” would be stopped by Commonhold - claim](/img/default/eat.png)
The government is being urged to make commonhold ownership compulsory on all new apartments - and the move could even begin a...
21 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - who’s in? who’s out? who’s moving?](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello - if it’s Monday it’s PJT day, so welcome to the latest update on key moves within our industry. Let us...
27 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agents warned they will be accused of mis-selling](/img/default/eat.png)
A leasehold reform campaigner claims estate agents face “growing calls to be held accountable for mis-selling leasehold properties.” Louie Burns, managing director...
21 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Breakthrough as agent sells apartments without ground rents](/img/default/eat.png)
A London estate agency says a new scheme of apartments being launched for sale this weekend will be the first ever...
07 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Regulating agents is key demand from leasehold campaigner](/img/default/eat.png)
A 10 point manifesto to drive forward leasehold reform has been published by prominent campaigner Louie Burns, of The Leasehold Solutions Group. The 10...
06 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Jail for fake estate agent who conned thousands out of women](/img/default/eat.png)
A fraudster who claimed to be an estate agent has been jailed for four years after conning vulnerable women into giving...
10 September 2019
From: Breaking News
![Government blasted over ‘scandalous’ leasehold reform proposals](/img/default/eat.png)
A leasehold reform campaigner says government proposals risk creating a two-tier market and do nothing to assist leaseholders already hit by...
02 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - and we're striking the right chord...](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello there - if it’s Friday it’s Agents Do Charity, and as we prepare for a hot weekend for Glastonbury revellers...
28 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![‘Punish rip-off culprits’ - CMA urged to be aggressive on leasehold abuse](/img/default/eat.png)
A firm supporting leaseholders across the UK says the ongoing Competition and Markets Authority probe should “punish” what it calls “rip off...
24 May 2019
From: Breaking News
![Expert view on the leasehold scandal - is Commonhold the answer?](/img/default/eat.png)
The leasehold scandal continues to generate plenty of column inches, with fresh stories emerging almost daily of people living in unsellable...
18 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Replacing leasehold with commonhold – we’re backing the campaign!](/img/default/eat.png)
The leasehold scandal has received plenty of press coverage, with horror stories of people living in homes that are impossible to...
06 April 2019
From: Features
![“Pathetic” government pledge mocked by leasehold expert](/img/default/eat.png)
Almost as soon as the government yesterday made its latest announcement to outlaw rogue leasehold deals, the measure was branded “pathetic. More...
29 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![New service aims to help 'Right Of First Refusal' leasehold flat owners](/img/default/eat.png)
A new website has been set up specifically to help leasehold flat owners who have been served a Section 5 Notice...
04 July 2018
From: Breaking News
![Keep promise over leasehold reform, new Housing Secretary is urged](/img/default/eat.png)
A leasehold reform campaigner has called on the government to ensure it publishes its report on leasehold reform before the summer recess at...
04 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Warning issued about many years before leasehold reform becomes law](/img/default/eat.png)
A leasehold reform campaigning group is warning that “it is likely to be many years” before promised leasehold reform becomes law. Leasehold...
24 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today: In the age of technology, customer service is timeless](/img/default/eat.png)
We think about technology all the time. At least, I do. And there’s nothing left in property that technology hasn’t touched...
28 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Bad news for leaseholders as Appeal Court backs estate owners](/img/default/eat.png)
Home owners seeking lease extensions may now have to pay more as a result of a controversial judgement handed down by...
25 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Group slams 'incredibly weak' government leasehold reforms](/img/default/eat.png)
A specialist leasehold enfranchisement firm has branded government leasehold reforms as "incredibly weak". In an announcement lost in the noise following Damian Green’s sacking,...
22 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Selling ‘off-grid’: helping agents with alternative fuels](/img/default/eat.png)
In the UK, there are over 3.9 million homes situated in off-grid areas with no access to mains gas, so it’s...
11 November 2017
From: Features
![Halloween Gore-fest! More photos and a video of your celebrations](/img/default/eat.png)
Thanks so much for sending in more photographs of your branches as they prepare for Halloween. We have some here but want...
27 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today: Are we going to buy talk of a doomed high street?](/img/default/eat.png)
You saw it, right? This article from Monday’s Guardian? It says that one in five estate agents are at risk of...
02 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Call for action over 'forgotten casualties' of ground lease scandal](/img/default/eat.png)
A leasehold enfranchisement expert wants government action over what he calls the "forgotten casualties" of the recent ground rent scandal. Louie Burns,...
14 July 2017
From: Breaking News
![Leasehold reform: major political parties don't promise enough, says group](/img/default/eat.png)
The Conservative and Labour party manifestos do not go far enough to tackle problems with the leasehold system. That’s the view of...
30 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Final day! Your agency Christmas pics and one last Mannequin Challenge](/img/default/eat.png)
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to our galleries of Christmas agency decorations, festive jumpers and Mannequin Challenges during the build...
23 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow... with your Christmas pictures](/img/default/eat.png)
Just a few days before Christmas now but we’re still receiving images of your festive fun - thanks so much for...
21 December 2016
From: Breaking News
![Firm warns of wave of litigation against new-build conveyancers](/img/default/eat.png)
A firm is warning of “a wave of litigation from home owners who were given inadequate advice from their solicitors or...
29 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Firm says Brexit price falls may be good for leasehold flat owners](/img/default/eat.png)
The possibility of short-term falling house prices caused by Brexit may be good news for the UK’s four million leasehold flat...
12 July 2016
From: Breaking News
![Ex-Countrywide chief takes over at independent agency group](/img/default/eat.png)
Curchods, the privately-owned, 21-branch Surrey agency which also trades as Burns and Webber has appointed a new group managing director. Michael Ansell...