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Some agents still appear unaware about their material information responsibilities, conveyancers claim. The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT)...

Trading Standards has insisted it is still on track to introduce parts B and C of material changes rules for property...

Now more than ever, property professionals across the sector need to pull together and collaborate more closely to make business gains,...

The Building Safety Act will cause further delays to the home moving process, a senior industry executive has warned. Rob Hailstone, chief...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

National Conveyancing Week has kicked off from today. The awareness-raising week features a series of in-person, online and pre-recorded events aimed at...

Agents are being encouraged to get involved in National Conveyancing Week. The awareness week will start on 20 March and features a...

An outline agenda for National Conveyancing Week has been released with the event just eight weeks away. National Conveyancing Week has been...

Conveyancers have outlined ways they believe the property transaction process could be improved including shutting down or improving “dabblers” and getting...

The “red tape ridden” system of buying a home is to blame for transaction delays more than individual conveyancers, agents or...

Increased conveyancing fees would speed-up transaction times, it has been claimed. Iain McKenzie, chief executive of The Guild of Property Professionals suggests...

Property expert Kate Faulkner has been announced as the host of this year’s Society of Licensed Conveyancers’ annual conference. The event is...

Property professionals have been pondering the impact of the sudden Bank Holiday scheduled next Monday for the Queen’s state funeral. It creates...

Agents and property professionals paid tribute to the Queen last night after Buckingham Palace announced she had passed away. Readers were celebrating...

More than half of agents disagree that mobile phone signal should be treated as material information in listings. James Munro, head of...

The ongoing debate about how to boost agent and conveyancer relations, and improve the homebuying system for all, continues to rage,...

Agents may have to include the broadband speed and mobile signal for a property on listings in the next round of...

Referral fees, lack of trust and too much email have been identified as barriers to greater collaboration between conveyancers and estate...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

Property blockchain network Coadjute has launched a research project to identify ways estate agents and conveyancers can improve their working relationship. It...

Estate agents and conveyancers have agreed on better working relationships at the first collaborative event between the two professions. There has been...

A number of pro-active conveyancers are joining a new conveyancing directory being set up by one of the leading figures in...

The sponsor of an industry forum for agents and conveyancers to be held next week says the collaborative event hails the...

PropTech supplier tmgroup is to hold a six-part webinar series called Achieving Change: Think tomorrow, act today. The webinars - from linked...

The most senior Trading Standards officer policing the agency industry says he hopes the public will ask about referral fees in...

High profile conveyancing supremo Rob Hailstone makes many announcements about government and industry housing policy - but he is less keen...

The ESTAS Forum scheduled for March says its aim is to encourage agents and conveyancers to work more closely together.  “There doesn’t...

Estate Agent Today understands that the civil servant who has been at the heart of plans to reform the house buying...

A petition is being started, urging the government to ban the payment of referral fees to estate agents. It’s reported to have...

There’s been an update this morning on the dramatic systems crash that has hit the conveyancing services operated by the Simplify...

As you are no doubt aware, building mutually beneficial relationships with conveyancers in your local area can not only make your...

The stamp duty holiday concluded at midnight, marking the end of the busiest period for the industry - all parts of...

A new online forum wants to unite estate agents and conveyancers, and ditch the traditional rivalry between the two professional disciplines. It’s...

No fewer than 79 per cent of people want the stamp duty holiday extended according to a survey conducted by an...

A radical way to end the current stamp duty holiday has been suggested by three different legal bodies. The Society of Licensed...

Agents and conveyancers are expressing doubt over whether a possible six week extension to the stamp duty holiday will be enough...

An auction house that's made a transition from ballroom operations to online streaming is to publish all fees for all lots -...

The largest company involved in the controversial Modern Method of Auction says it’s producing a “disruptive digital market campaign to address...

A leading conveyancing sector spokesmen says some mortgage lenders are making the current delays in the house buying process worse. Rob Hailstone,...

A leading firm of conveyancers will this week tell new clients that their property purchases are likely to miss the stamp...

We can all agree that the recovery of the property market since May has been outstanding. The latest data from Zoopla...

Conveyancers are sending a blunt message to estate agents: transactions will take longer than usual and don’t chase us with queries and...

The ESTAS Group says it will combine its awards events for agents, conveyancers and mortgage brokers in one ceremony in May...

New guidance has just been agreed by conveyancers on house moves during the Coronavirus crisis. The procedures - made pubic only last...

It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...

First details have emerged of the information vendors may have to provide up-front In future transactions if government house buying reforms...

A local authority in the Home Counties says it will not be possible to accept search queries for six weeks starting...

A member of a legal information and networking organisation says an online estate agency expects him to do some work in...

A member of a prominent legal network is warning buyers and their conveyancers to be ”wary” of the Modern Method of...

More details are emerging of the first-ever ESTAS conference for conveyancers - the Bold Legal Conference - taking place on the...

With the home buying and selling process firmly on the news agenda of late – everything from a possible ban on...

One of the country’s leading conveyancing chiefs has given his support to reforms to the house buying process. But Rob Hailstone -...

In what promises to be a transformative year for conveyancing in the UK, the ESTAS is joining forces with the well-known...

Representatives from estate and lettings agencies as well as professional organisations have formed The Home Buying And Selling Group with a...

A cluster of conveyancing and legal experts, known as the Legal Sector Group, has published a raft of proposals on leasehold...

Legal Eye has been announced as the latest organisation to support the new customer service awards for the conveyancing sector launch...

There has been a fierce attack on failed conveyancing portal Veyo, in the form of an open letter from one of the...

Earlier this week removal man Matt Faizey had an article published by Estate Agent Today in which he commented about the...

There was a recent article in Estate Agent Today titled: Agents 'missing out on income by not charging for referrals'. A study...

Wind back the clock a few years and the working relationships I had with most estate agents was productive, beneficial and...

The internet has changed the way that most businesses operate. In many cases, the opportunities opened up by the emergence of...

Last month it was announced that the CHAPS payment system will be extended by one hour and forty minutes from summer...

A number of my member firms (Bold Legal Group) have reported that, compared to three years ago, the time to get...

So spring has sprung and the Hare is on the loose. After a very long gestation period, the Veyo leveret has...

The issue of some estate agents insisting that buyers and/or sellers use a particular solicitor or conveyancer has reared its ugly...

The Society of Licensed Conveyancers and Bold Legal Group have announced details of this year’s spring road shows. The events in Leeds,...