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10 April 2024
From: Breaking News
![Q&A with HBSG's Maria Harris - are digital mortgages the future?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/MortgageApplyNow_400x310.png)
With reform of the home buying and selling process as crucial as it's ever been, and disrupters like Coadjute and PEXA...
22 October 2022
From: Features
![RICS names veteran ex-civil servant to lead independent review](/upload/images/Logos/RICS-logo400x310.png)
RICS has appointed Lord Michael Bichard to lead a wide-ranging independent review into the governance and purpose of the institution. The review...
02 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![RICS Fraud Risk Controversy - QC delivers 400 page report](/upload/images/Logos/RICS-logo400x310.png)
The independent QC asked to prepare a report into the financial conduct row at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has...
12 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today – Why has overhaul of buying and selling still not happened?](/img/default/eat.png)
The government and property industry have been talking about it for a long time, and there have been numerous initiatives introduced...
07 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents - what do you think about improving housing supply?](/img/default/eat.png)
Agents’ views are being sought by Propertymark on how best to improve the housing supply in Northern Ireland. The province’s Department for...
25 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![RICS governance crisis - Leading lawyer wants your views](/img/default/eat.png)
The independent review into the governance of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is calling for comments. Earlier this year RICS was the...
04 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Limited property tax proposals unveiled by government](/img/default/eat.png)
Some 30 tax documents have been released by HM Treasury this afternoon - a mix of responses to past consultations, proposals...
23 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Business rates boost for agencies as revaluation is deferred a year](/img/default/eat.png)
Agencies, many of which campaigned vigorously to be included in the business rates holiday announced in March by the government, have...
07 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![ARLA Propertymark Conference 2019 – three key talking points](/img/default/eat.png)
The recent ARLA Propertymark conference featured a hugely interesting line-up of speaks and session during a watershed time for the lettings...
13 April 2019
From: Features
![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
![Referral fee ban considered as part of house buying reform](/img/default/eat.png)
The civil servant leading work to reform the house buying has revealed key areas of government thinking - with a ban on...
18 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![House buying reform - should we all sell homes the Scottish way?](/img/default/eat.png)
It seems a lifetime ago but in fact we’re approaching just the first anniversary since the government triggered its Call for...
05 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Improving the homebuying process – how can we deliver this ourselves?](/img/default/eat.png)
You will notice that there is a new author for this regular column for Estate Agent Today. Last month I was...
21 July 2018
From: Features
![Referral Fees may be banned following Trading Standards survey](/img/default/eat.png)
National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team and two of the three industry redress organisations have launched a survey to measure the...
19 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Professionalising the estate agency sector – how long could this take?](/img/default/eat.png)
As housing market stakeholders we’ve all had a month or so to try and digest the government’s own response to its...
19 May 2018
From: Features
![Property Natter: Day in the life of…a property journalist](/img/default/eat.png)
Ever wondered what it’s like to be on the frontline of property journalism? Well, wonder no more, as our very own...
05 May 2018
From: Features
![Agents should educate first-time buyers now to gain clients for life](/img/default/eat.png)
Given the level of resource and energy being put behind upping the number of first-time buyers in the UK, you might...
28 April 2018
From: Features
![More details revealed on range of agency reform proposals](/img/default/eat.png)
More details have emerged of the government’s proposals to enhance estate agency regulation, regulate referral fees, offer guides for buyers and...
09 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Could embracing Commonhold put an end to leasehold nightmare?](/img/default/eat.png)
At any given moment it’s difficult to say which issue dominates our marketplace, but I think it’s fair to acknowledge during...
31 March 2018
From: Features
![Sadiq Khan steps up pressure to expose foreign ownership of UK properties](/img/default/eat.png)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is stepping up the pressure on government to speed up the delivery of a new public register...
01 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Reveal referral fees early but don't ban them says conveyancing body](/img/default/eat.png)
The body that regulates conveyancers says controversial referral fees should be disclosed earlier in the house buying process - but they...
10 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancers want estate agents licensed and sellers to compile log books](/img/default/eat.png)
A conveyancers’ trade body has told the government that it wants the house buying process to be modernised by having estate...
18 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![PropTech experts to debate how moving and buying could be improved](/img/default/eat.png)
A round table will take place tomorrow between some of the country’s leading PropTech experts and the British Property Foundation to...
21 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Should agents pay for an increased Trading Standards budget?](/img/default/eat.png)
A large part of the DCLG’s Call for Evidence on the home buying and selling process focuses on the role of...
18 November 2017
From: Features
![House Buying Review pushes PropTech firms into action](/img/default/eat.png)
The government's call for evidence from agents and others in a bid to improve the house buying process has pushed some...
08 November 2017
From: Breaking News
!['One in eight transactions in 2017 has been subject to gazumping'](/img/default/eat.png)
Some 12 per cent of transactions in England and Wales so far this year have been subject to gazumping, being sold...
03 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Buying Reform: call for legally-binding Reservation Agreements](/img/default/eat.png)
An influential consumer group has responded to the government’s commitment to reform the house buying process by advocating legally-binding reservation agreements...
01 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: here’s why crowdfunding is the future](/img/default/eat.png)
Crowdfunding is nothing new. As I pointed out in a previous Natter, it dates back centuries, playing a part in the...
28 October 2017
From: Features
![Agency tells government: probe gazundering as well as gazumping](/img/default/eat.png)
The government should take a close look at gazundering as well as gazumping in its review of the house sales process,...
27 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancers are piloting HIPs-style 'Digital Home Reports'](/img/default/eat.png)
The Conveyancing Association says some of its members are piloting HIPs-style Digital Home Reports in a bid to reduce fall-throughs and...
24 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancers and searches in firing line of new government probe](/img/default/eat.png)
Conveyancers and the speed of local council searches have come in for criticism as details have emerged of the government’s consultation...
23 October 2017
From: Breaking News
!['Government has no ideas at all #idiots' - industry reacts to probe](/img/default/eat.png)
There has been a wide range of views from trade bodies and individual agents on the government’s surprise ‘call for evidence’...
23 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Government launches consultation into house buying and selling](/img/default/eat.png)
The government has launched a consultation this weekend calling for evidence on how to make the home buying process “cheaper, faster...
22 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![The Queen's Speech marks another step forward for leasehold reform](/img/default/eat.png)
The political ebb and flow continues - seemingly with all the subtlety of a Boris Johnson rugby tackle on a 10-year...
01 July 2017
From: Features
![How can we encourage closer collaboration between estate agents and solicitors?](/img/default/eat.png)
With an anticipated “Call for Evidence” from the Dept of Business Innovation & Skills looking into the home-buying experience ETSOS is...
01 September 2016
From: Sponsored Content
![Tories want 'innovative' ideas on building more and cheaper homes](/img/default/eat.png)
The Tory Reform Group has launched a public call for evidence seeking “innovative policy proposals to address the two-fold challenge of...
08 August 2016
From: Breaking News
![Call for evidence: why technology needs to underpin house buying](/img/default/eat.png)
Nearly three quarters of people who have sold or bought a property deem it more stressful than having a child or...
15 July 2016
From: Features
![ETSOS Respond to Government’s anticipated “Call for Evidence” on improving the conveyancing process](/img/default/eat.png)
As a service provider to both Estate Agents and Conveyancing Solicitors from one platform, ETSOS sits in a fairly unique position...
06 July 2016
From: Sponsored Content
![Conveyancers to consider how to cut costs, delays and fall-throughs](/img/default/eat.png)
The Conveyancing Association is setting up a working group to consider how to increase transparency, cut unnecessary delays and costs, and...
23 June 2016
From: Breaking News
![All change? Industry to be asked how to shake-up house buying](/img/default/eat.png)
The government is staying tight-lipped about it for the moment but there may be a major shake-up in house buying on...