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Self-employed agency brand eXp has terminated the contract of agent Ian Wyn-Jones following allegations about his working practices. Wyn-Jones, who joined eXp...

The managing director of an estate agency has pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault by beating but did not...

The government is being urged to go further with its clampdown on fake reviews. A government announcement aimed at protecting consumers last...

The international reviews service Trustpilot has batted away criticism from a property website that it ignores breaches of its guidelines. Last week,...

The war of words between various property review platforms continues apace. The latest accusation concern comparison website GetAgent, and specifically reviews of...

A row has broken out over a company which has made allegations about Trustpilot reviews of OnTheMarket. A company called KwikChex says...

Reviews website Trustpilot has hit back after being attacked by property website allAgents.  allAgents chief Martin McKenzie is calling for Trustpilot chief...

Propertymark is to probe Purplebricks over its lettings fiasco - and as the agency becomes a subject of ridicule in the...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is trying to win back respect within the property industry with new Rules of Conduct...

The governing council of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has issued a public apology to the whistle blowers whose actions...

Robert Jenrick has been sacked from his post as Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary. He was the third major name to...

The independent QC leading a review into the governance scandal at the RICS says there was “no fraudulent or criminal misbehaviour”...

A news conference today is expected to reveal more details of the governance scandal which has engulfed the Royal Institution of...

The chief executive of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Sean Tompkins, is in talks to step down according to an...

The independent QC asked to prepare a report into the financial conduct row at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has...

A former estate agent has accused the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agent Team of trying to discredit him. Chris Wood,...

The publication of a report following a controversial RICS investigation has been pushed back another month. Last month it was announced that...

The Competititon and Markets Authority says it’s to look into reviews on Google and Amazon, and see whether the online giants...

The independent review into the governance of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is calling for comments. Earlier this year RICS was the...

Liverpool - where commissioners have been ordered by Whitehall to run part of the council following corruption allegations - is the...

A newspaper claims that thousands of customers’ financial details held by Foxtons Group are being freely accessed on the so-called dark...

Propertymark, combining both the National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents, claims to speak for the...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors last night announced a dramatic U-turn in the controversy over a report by an independent...

The Sunday Times has made new and detailed allegations regarding the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. For some weeks the newspaper has...

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

The Times has revealed new allegations concerning the behaviour of Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick. The Cabinet member has been under the spotlight...

A law practice says HM Revenue & Customs is launching a probe into companies that have allegedly abused the Coronavirus furlough...

Estate agents facing crippling running costs as the wider impacts of the Coronavirus crisis hit home may benefit, at least in...

Controversial Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is the subject of a harshly critical cartoon in The Times which depicts “pigs in the...

Housing minister Chris Pincher has now been named in media investigations into allegations concerning his political boss, Robert Jenrick, and the...

The managing director of a Winkworth branch is threatening to report a senior member of a nearby Countrywide office to the...

Details being presented to Parliament today may include information on how agents can return to work in some sort of ‘new normal.’ A 50...

The boss of controversial estate agency Dexters has hit out at social media reports and press articles about company staff working...

The new housing minister is Christopher Pincher, who for the past decade has been Conservative MP for Tamworth having had a...

The war of words between estate agency review website allAgents and consumer review service Trustpilot continues apace. Trustpilot has hit back, describing allAgents’...

Purplebricks has won a ‘trusted service’ award - described as “an independent seal of excellence that recognises businesses for delivering exceptional experiences,...

Countrywide has declined to comment on circumstances surrounding today’s Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors disciplinary meeting about diverted funds. One of RICS’...

An estate agency will pay out over £40,000 after being found to have misled customers and allowing one of its own...

The police have opened an investigation after a number of complaints have been made about the financial affairs of a sales...

Rightmove says its data quality team is to conduct “a full review of the current customer” after an allegation about a...

There’s anger in the industry over an article in The Times which accused agents of overvaluing properties - although why this was happening...

An anonymous estate agent has renewed his attack on Purplebricks after an article in The Times at the weekend. Estate Agent Today...

The online estate agency platform Love2Move has scrapped its bid for investment via a controversial crowdfunding platform. The platform - which allows...

Maverick Cornish estate agent Chris Wood has quit the industry with a stinging attack on those who have “taken their toll”...

A slew of allegations have been made against agents and sometimes even by agents, over alleged misdemeanours over property listings as...

Online estate agent Emoov failed to tell crowdfunding investors it was losing £3m a month before its collapse, a Sunday paper claims. The...

A maverick estate agent pictured wearing a yellow vest has threatened to mount what he calls a “civil protest” if Brexit...

The Guardian is this morning reporting that “a major estate agent” has been accused of involvement in corruption with the house...

Sky News says Emoov is to be sold, just months after the controversial online agency merged with Sarah Beeny's Tepilo and the...

A firm which links with agents to operate online auctions has hit back at a consumer group's allegations that this growing sector...

The chief executive of Emoov, Russell Quirk, has suggested that the unexpectedly low take up of online agents may mean that...

An agent from Cornwall who has waged a long-running campaign against online agencies in general and Purplebricks in particular has been...

Purplebricks says it completely rejects any claim of bullying its representatives in Australia. The Australian Financial Review, which last week reported the...

It is understood that an estate agent from Cornwall is to face trial over allegations that he misled potential customers over...

A magazine which earlier this year claimed that two big corporates pressured customers to use their preferred mortgage brokers has now...

Several newspapers are carrying allegations that the diary secretary working for housing minister Dominic Raab has been selling sex via a...

Almost a third of all ‘Suspicious Activity Reports’ concerning possible anti-money laundering infringements and reported to the National Crime Agency have...

OnTheMarket has finally completed its stock market float, with less capital raised, at a lower than planned valuation and, as I write,...

Outspoken estate agent Chris Wood has criticised the Advertising Standards Authority for its succession of ‘informally resolved’ judgements on complaints against...

Rebel estate agent Chris Wood - who earlier this year unsuccessfully attempted to get on the ballot paper as a candidate for...

A donor with the name ‘Michael Bruce’ has contributed - at least a little - to a fighting fund for review...

An estate agent with a career of nearly 24 years has lost his employment tribunal after a judge ruled he gave...

Online review organisation Trustpilot has issued an open letter regarding its Purplebricks reviews. In it, the review company - which is often...

An early Gold member of OnTheMarket is making a last-ditch bid to stop its parent company, Agents’ Mutual, from floating on...

OnTheMarket is declining to comment after suggestions were floated that some debts by its member agents could be deferred, or in some...

The roadshow of presentations of Agents’ Mutual’s plans to float on the stock market have just passed the half-way mark. Remaining sessions...

The OnTheMarket Action Group of dissident agents has told Estate Agent Today it is now in a position to decide on...

Purplebricks’ advertising is very negative and critical of the competition. They talk about 'commisery', trying to make potential sellers feel ripped...

OnTheMarket has swatted away the latest criticism from a long-term critic, online estate agency head Russell Quirk - although it has...

A house builder has set aside £7m to spend on repairs to its own new properties after a series of complaints...

The Adam Smith Institute, a right-wing think-tank, has blasted the campaigning charity Shelter over its allegations of land-banking by house builders in...

A health service tribunal has found that a senior paramedic tried to sexually assault an estate agent as she prepared for...

An estate agent at an office of London agency Felicity J Lord, who alleged unethical practices were taking place in the...

An online estate agency delisted by Rightmove for apparently breaching its terms and conditions has accused the portal of “gross abuse”...

One of the country’s most outspoken critics of estate and letting agents is quitting his role as chief executive of Shelter...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team is warning agents not to engage in portal juggling - an activity it describes...

One of Britain’s foremost PropTech experts says OnTheMarket could still disrupt the portal landscape - but has trust issues following disputes...

A member of the public has submitted a complaint on portal juggling to the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team following...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team has over the weekend repeated its intention to investigate allegations of so-called portal juggling...

An estate agent is going on trial concerning allegations that he defrauded people of over a quarter of a million pounds. Russell...

There is still no word on when a police investigation will report on alleged irregularities said to involve the buy to...

With the industry still awaiting the outcome of two investigations into allegations surrounding London property money-laundering, one estate agency is now...

A pressure group is calling for estate agents to conduct additional checks to ensure the legal provenance of buyers’ funds, and...

Channel 4 admits to using what it calls “unusual” secret filming techniques and an undercover reporter posing as a Russian politician to...