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New guidance has been issued by the Competitions and Markets Authority for whistleblowers who want to report anti-competitive practices by their...

The biggest news story in town this last week – which has brought people who don’t usually like or watch football...

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

The estate agency industry is still under the spotlight for possible illegal price fixing cartels according to the Competition and Markets...

The Competition and Markets Authority - which yesterday announced it had disqualified two estate agency directors for their parts in a...

Two estate agency directors have been disqualified by the Competition and Markets Authority after taking part in an illegal price fixing...

The Competitions and Markets Authority has started court proceedings seeking the disqualification of two estate agency directors over a price fixing...

A new call has been issued this morning by the Competition and Markets Authority for estate agents to confess if their...

The Competition and Markets Authority says it wants to send “a strong signal” to the estate agency industry that price-fixing will...

The public are being asked to inform the authorities if they know of agents operating fee-fixing cartels. The request - from the...

The Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally found that four agencies broke competition law by taking part in a price fixing...

Proceedings against an estate agent at the centre of a fees cartel case have been dropped following his agreement not to stand as...

The Competition and Markets Authority has this afternoon taken the latest step in the lengthy case of an estate agency cartel. This revolves...

The government policies and enforcement plans for anti-money laundering measures are set to take centre stage at next month’s annual conference...

The Competition and Markets Authority is stepping up its campaign to identify and prosecute companies behind cartels - and it’s offering...

A disciplinary investigation by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has blown the lid on the infamous fee-fixing cartel scandal involving estate...

Two estate agency directors have been disqualified over a cartel scandal which resulted in five agencies being fined over £370,000 for...

The Competition and Markets Authority, which is believed to be actively investigating estate agents’ alleged infringement of the Competitions Act, is...

It is thought likely that there will be no new update on the investigation into agents’ alleged infringement of the Competitions...

The Competitions and Markets Authority is investigating a suspect infringement of the Competition Act 1998 by estate agents. Few details have been...

The Competition and Markets Authority has set out precisely what agents and other companies can and cannot do in the event...

The Competition and Markets Authority - which yesterday released details of an infamous cartel case involving estate agencies - has now...

The Competition and Markets Authority has now fined agents over £1m in two landmark cases concerning price-fixing - and it says...

A fine of £735,000 imposed on an association of estate and letting agents and a local newspaper publisher has been described...

The Competitions and Markets Authority - which earlier this year fined an estate agency trade group £735,000 - has set out...

The consumer is King and to protect sellers and buyers' best interests estate and letting agents have to operate in the...

The estate agency industry is “in the sights of” the Competitions and Markets Authority according to a competition lawyer. “All the evidence...