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You don’t have to simply accept things as they are when it comes to managing your client accounts. If your bank...

Alto has announced a new integration with secure messaging platform Tappter. Existing Alto customers can get seamlessly set up with Tappter to...

SPRING cleaning is an annual ritual for many households, but firms in the property sector would do well to spend some...

A variety of charities have received support from the property industry over the past week. If there are charitable endeavours you think...

Winkworth's network completed sales for the year fell by some 19% in 2023, the agency franchise brand has revealed but it...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

Estate agency insolvencies have increased by 11% over the past 12 months, research suggests. Analysis by audit and accountancy firm Mazars found...

Leading digital compliance firm SmartSearch has launched an innovative new solution to help professionals working within the UK property sector to...

Compliancy expert Legal Eye has launched a new product to help agents ensure they are properly following all rules and regulations. Its...

The ESTAS team and I are now on the final countdown to Friday 20th October.  Having run the event for twenty...

As money laundering compliance marks its twentieth year, more and more estate agents are being fined for breaches of HMRC’s ID...

By Dawson Scott, CTO of Reapit. As the Chief Technology Officer of Reapit, I have always held the view that the privacy,...

Tackling economic crime is part of the day job for estate agents. But how can the latest digital ID tools help...

CRMs can be superheroes for your business, but not all of them possess the necessary powers to save the day. As...

Propertymark is working with an Anti-Money Laundering service to stage a webinar for agents wanting to know more about compliance. At the...

Propertymark has named its new chairperson and board members during its annual general meeting. Succeeding Propertymark’s, Nicky Heathcote, Bill Butler has been...

CRM provider Street.co.uk has partnered with Smart Compliance to give agents access to its tools. With the integration of Smart Compliance into...

Spicerhaart’s non-executive chairman John Spence has received a special achievement award after announcing his retirement from the board after more than...

Estate agents are entering a ‘rocky period,’ an accountancy firm has warned, as research shows insolvencies in the sector are on...

Zoopla has become the latest accredited supplier of the New Homes Quality Board (NHQB) for its software that supports housebuilders. It come...

Propertymark has launched a new compliance service for its member agents. The offering, called Calm about Compliance, will see experienced auditors advise,...

An internal review has found examples of non-compliance with regulations at Purplebricks, the online agent’s half-year results have revealed, which could...

We spent some time with Lucy Noonan, Founder and CEO of Atomic Consultancy, to pick her brains about the many moving...

HMRC has fined estate agents over £500,000 for anti-money laundering (AML) breaches in the past two months. Yet despite property managers...

With the ever-persistent compliance hurdles materialising within the property market, Nathan Emerson, CEO of Propertymark, speaks about how the use of...

The Government’s mini budget on September 23 was anything but ‘mini’ with several major announcements one of the most significant of...

Yorkshire estate agent Dacre Son & Hartley is aiming to offset more than 100 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. The brand is...

Amid a cost-of-living crisis, not to mention the uncertainty of a post-Covid economy, real estate businesses across the UK don’t have...

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) recently published a list of firms that have received penalty notices for failure to meet their...

It’s taken Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the UK to finally take a much-needed step in the right direction to stop...

In recent years, we’ve witnessed a massive influx of channels for media consumers – two of the biggest of which are...

With the government releasing details on the Fairer Private Rented Sector, landlords and letting agents are looking for ways to maintain...

Purplebricks has pushed back the publication of its annual accounts. The online agent’s full year results were due to be published on...

MPs have called for carbon emissions to be considered when it comes to house building. A report released this week by the Environmental Audit...

As amendments to smoke and carbon monoxide alarm legislation loom for rented properties later this year, we look at how inventory...

A prominent independent production company is looking for property professionals for a new television programme idea to be filmed in the...

The UK property industry has long been a target of fraudsters due to the low levels of transparency and the fact...

It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas – just a week to go now. Presents all wrapped and...

Compliance check list - are you New Year ready? The start of a new year is a great time for estate agents...

Foxtons has this morning announced that former managing director Peter Rollings is rejoining the agency 16 years after his departure. Rollings was...

An agency that operates across and around Bristol is the latest to declare its commitment to go carbon neutral. The associate director...

Increasingly rigorous Money Laundering Directives have made regulations in the property industry more stringent than ever, and Estate Agents have a...

I’ve never written the three letters ‘EPC’ more often than I have in the past week. Law changes for the private rental...

RICS has appointed a former civil servant with a 42-year career as its new audit committee chair. Mike Driver, currently president of...

The Modern Method of Auction (MMoA), also known as Conditional auction, can sometimes get a bad rap. However, much of 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...

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

Propertymark has named two new non-executive directors described as having “a wealth of knowledge and independence.” A statement says their appointments “will expand...

Working from home used to get a bad rap. With the phrase mocked as ‘shirking from home’, homeworkers were often seen...

Movebutler, the digital onboarding platform from online auction specialist iamproperty, says it has some 900 agency branches signed up. These include Martin...

As an estate agent, you should of course be performing robust Know Your Customer (KYC) checks as part of your Anti-Money...

The original stamp duty freeze, which started in July 2020, has already helped push house prices to a record high and...

Energy Performance Certificates ought to be scrapped because they are outdated and not fit for purpose. That’s the view of an influential...

One of the biggest trends in recent times, as a direct result of the pandemic, is the concept of working from...

With one of the world’s most successful vaccine rollout programmes under way in the UK, the chances of a complete lockdown...

On March 23rd 2021, Dezrez and its partners are hosting EAvolution21 the event that showcases the latest in PropTech using an...

The biggest awards in the residential property sector, The ESTAS, has confirmed an autumn date for its main 2021 event.  Traditionally the...

The president of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors insists that the organisation is acting on recommendations of a probe into...

A leading board member of NAEA Propertymark warns a small number of rogue agents continue to flout anti-money laundering regulations - and...

Agents spend their whole careers telling vendors and landlords why they will be able to achieve a better sale price or...

As the review of the recommendations of the Regulation of Property Agents Working Group continues, Emily Hawthorne, mio Account Manager and...

Purplebricks has named a new non-executive director - and currently she has 36 other company directorships or partnerships to her name. Elona...

Despite the recent effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is still much opportunity in the market for letting agents to grow...

The letting industry has come a long way over the past few years, embracing regulation and taking pride in doing good...

A PropTech platform that claims to halve the time a transaction takes has received a huge cash injection from investors for...

The last few months have been tough for the property sector, and the pressure will continue as estate agents across the...

The debate over whether For Sale boards remain a valuable source of publicity has been in the headlines of late -...

Government leaks to mainstream and building trade media suggest the controversial Help To Buy scheme will be extended beyond its end-of-2020 deadline. An...

Speculation is mounting that Capital Gains Tax could for the first time be applied to gains made when owners sell first...

There appears to have been a small shareholder rebellion at Countrywide’s annual general meeting over the company’s remuneration of senior management. No...

If it’s Friday it’s our regular round-up of fund-raising by and involving the property industry, and it’s remarkable how much is...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has revised its Anti-Money Laundering guidance in the light of Coronavirus. It says the scale of...

Rightmove has confirmed that its group finance director is to step down at the end of next month. Robyn Perriss is retiring...

The Federation of Independent Agents and the ESTAS review and awards platform have formed what they call “a key partnership.” The FIA...

Aside from the obvious health crisis, the current pandemic is proving difficult for the business worldwide. However, despite the increasing contact...

Three more agencies have signed up to the ESTAS customer review platform. The arrival of Newton Fallowell, Lovelle and Goodchilds - all...

There’s been another shortlist announced for The ESTAS 2020 - this time for the best suppliers to the estate and letting...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Nick Lyons CEO What is No Letting Go and what does it...

By now, most letting agents and landlords will have heard about the draft legislation laid in Parliament concerning a mandatory minimum...

Why should agencies leave voicemail in the last decade and make 2020 the year to invest in a more modern solution? Voicemail...

Not for the first time, a government policy on housing ends up begging more questions than it provides answers - but...

First things first, a big happy New Year to everyone. Welcome to 2020! It looks set to be another interesting year...

Hello - HNY and all that from the team at Agents Do Charity. We’re delighted to be back with three great stories...

The ESTAS, the national customer service awards recognising the best agents, brokers and suppliers, closes for entry at the end of...

Foxtons has revealed that the chair of the troubled agency’s remuneration committee has stood down with immediate effect. This are also unconfirmed...

The National Audit Office, a spending watchdog, has exposed the government’s Starter Homes policy with a damning critique of its failure The...

Countrywide has this afternoon released a statement suggesting it has, in its eyes, settled the controversy over unclaimed lettings funds being...

London-focussed business-to-business deal data service LonRes has acquired an anti-money laundering compliance consultancy specialising in residential and commercial property. Financial Crime Services,...

A report by the influential Public Accounts committee of MPs has been highly sceptical of the effectiveness of Help To Buy. It...

A free-to-list portal says it’s an ideal way to capture potential leads so as to augment agents’ client databases that have...

It’s been six years since the Help to Buy scheme was launched, with the honourable intentions of helping more people onto...

Professional client account solutions for modern letting agents Letting agents will need to come up with new ways to manage client money...

A PropTech firm is marketing anti-money laundering audit checks for agents to help the industry comply with tighter regulation. Identity verification business...

It’s been two weeks since our last PJT, thanks to the Bank Holiday, so there’s plenty of news in today’s edition. If...

It’s been quite a week for news so you might have missed this story - there is yet another boost for...

A newspaper claims that a crowdfunding site used by some estate agencies and other property industry companies has suspended trading on...

The government has published proposals for far-reaching changes to the way estate and letting agents are regulated, trained and licensed. The proposals...

Estate agents have been urged to ensure they are carrying out an annual independent audit of their anti-money laundering (AML) processes. ID...

Property portal Rightmove has confirmed that it is trialling an option which allows buyers of commercial properties to submit offers online...