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Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...
18 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. Thomas Morris Sales & Lettings: Last week...
31 March 2023
From: Breaking News
From Million Dollar Listing to Selling Sunset, we’re used to seeing real estate reality TV in full force on Netflix. Whilst...
29 March 2023
From: Features
Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...
03 March 2023
From: Breaking News
The competition watchdog is set to shine a spotlight on property, with investigations into the housebuilding market and a separate project...
01 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Is Facebook giving you a headache? If you’re in the property sector, you’re not alone! From the Cambridge Analytica Scandal to...
05 October 2022
From: Features
Hello and welcome to the end of the week - another opportunity to see how our industry is doing great work...
01 October 2021
From: Breaking News
New guidance has been issued by the Competitions and Markets Authority for whistleblowers who want to report anti-competitive practices by their...
19 July 2021
From: Breaking News
A well respected professional footballer who became an estate agent in his adopted home town has died at the young age...
05 May 2021
From: Breaking News
The Competitions and Markets Authority is to probe the proposed merger of two crowdfunding sites used by numerous property industry companies. Crowdcube...
13 November 2020
From: Breaking News
New guidance spells out how leniency can be exercised on agencies or individuals who inform on anti-competition cartels of the kind that...
05 November 2020
From: Breaking News
NAEA Propertymark has thrown its weight behind a Competitions and Markets Authority investigation into whether consumer protection law has been broken...
07 September 2020
From: Breaking News
One of the victims of a notorious estate agency price fixing cartel has spoken out against one of the offenders. Christina Davis...
01 September 2020
From: Breaking News
Property raffles are a legal minefield and many are too good to be true, according to a leading lawyer. There has been...
10 August 2020
From: Breaking News
House raffles and similar competitions have become mired in controversy in recent years, thanks to some of them failing to abide by...
06 August 2020
From: Breaking News
Hunters has expanded its online offering to improve its service to both the sales and lettings sectors - and it’s even...
16 April 2020
From: Breaking News
A trade body has reported some council search departments to the government for refusing to provide email details and forcing search...
16 April 2020
From: Breaking News
The Competitions and Markets Authority has started court proceedings seeking the disqualification of two estate agency directors over a price fixing...
31 March 2020
From: Breaking News
A long-standing legal dispute between OnTheMarket and the Gascogne Halman and Connells agencies has been settled. No details have been released but in...
13 March 2020
From: Breaking News
Future complaints about property raffles by individual home owners seeking to avoid estate agency fees will in future be handled by...
28 February 2020
From: Breaking News
A Connells’ agency brand arguably best known because of legal action by OnTheMarket is to open its 21st office. Cheshire property consultancy...
20 November 2019
From: Breaking News
Countrywide has told Estate Agent Today that it will not be releasing any figures on the branch closure programme it introduced...
01 August 2019
From: Breaking News
Another house price raffle has closed amid rancour, and with cash prizes being awarded instead of the property originally promoted. The latest...
02 July 2019
From: Breaking News
Another property raffle - this time with what appeared to be a castle as its main prize - has hit trouble...
17 April 2019
From: Breaking News
With next Friday being Easter, this is the last ADC for a fortnight - so it’s our chance to honour those...
12 April 2019
From: Breaking News
Yet another property raffle has had to be abandoned because it has been deemed illegal under Gambling Commission rules. A Yorkshire couple,...
07 January 2019
From: Breaking News
Every other advert on the TV is featuring Santa Claus, snowmen or reindeer, the tinsel, trees and decorations are out in...
01 December 2018
From: Features
OnTheMarket chief executive Ian Springett has told an agents’ conference of the strategy for his service - including a prediction that...
26 November 2018
From: Breaking News
Raffles are in the news as a way of ‘selling’ homes, and not just because an Irish club has won a...
02 November 2018
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority is stepping up its campaign to identify and prosecute companies behind cartels - and it’s offering...
24 October 2018
From: Breaking News
The Competitions and Markets Authority says the result of its latest probe into estate agencies’ possible infringement of the Competition Act...
08 October 2018
From: Breaking News
The perils of property competitions and raffles have once again been demonstrated, this time with the Advertising Standards Authority upholding three...
26 September 2018
From: Breaking News
One of the spate of property raffle competitions has been the subject of a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority. The complaint...
08 August 2018
From: Breaking News
A disciplinary investigation by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has blown the lid on the infamous fee-fixing cartel scandal involving estate...
20 July 2018
From: Breaking News
Cast your mind back to July 2008 – Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, the Euros were in full swing in Austria/Switzerland...
30 June 2018
From: Features
ZPG’s sell-off of the Australian arm of housing data company Hometrack to REA Group, a multinational digital firm specialising in portals and...
31 May 2018
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority, which is believed to be actively investigating estate agents’ alleged infringement of the Competitions Act, is...
22 March 2018
From: Breaking News
It is thought likely that there will be no new update on the investigation into agents’ alleged infringement of the Competitions...
06 March 2018
From: Breaking News
The Competitions and Markets Authority is investigating a suspect infringement of the Competition Act 1998 by estate agents. Few details have been...
02 March 2018
From: Breaking News
The Advertising Standards Authority has told the organisers of a house raffle that they must not repeat a promotion because of...
13 December 2017
From: Breaking News
The accounts for Agents’ Mutual, parent company of the OnTheMarket portal, show that revenue for the year ending January 31 was...
01 August 2017
From: Breaking News
We take a break from the relentless election coverage to look at the great fundraising work being carried out by our industry. Once...
09 June 2017
From: Breaking News
As we end an especially tragic week, it is heart-warming to remember how our industry - along with so many other...
26 May 2017
From: Breaking News
ZPG has published its half-year figures this morning showing a six per cent rise in the number of agents and a...
24 May 2017
From: Breaking News
An attempt to raffle a property - like the much-publicised case of an owner in south east London, which reached some...
11 May 2017
From: Breaking News
The Competitions and Markets Authority has released more details of its ‘calling-in’ of the acquisition of Expert Agent by Zoopla Property...
03 April 2017
From: Breaking News
The Competitions and Markets Authority is reviewing the acquisition of Expert Agent by ZPG, parent company of Zoopla and PrimeLocation. A statement...
31 March 2017
From: Breaking News
A competition organised by Real Hot Property - which says it “aims to be Europe’s largest property portal” - has been...
22 February 2017
From: Breaking News
A new regional property portal aiming to sign up 80 per cent of agencies in Yorkshire says it is unconcerned about...
21 February 2017
From: Breaking News
This week sees the start of the Competition Appeal Tribunal court case between Agents’ Mutual Ltd and Gascoigne Halman Ltd. The case...
30 January 2017
From: Breaking News
It’s a headline from an Australian business journal this week but it has a familiar ring to it: “Estate agents’ attempts...
26 August 2016
From: Features
A fine of £735,000 imposed on an association of estate and letting agents and a local newspaper publisher has been described...
18 July 2016
From: Breaking News
A London agent says he has quit OnTheMarket and Agents’ Mutual as a result of the intervention of the Competitions and Markets...
26 April 2016
From: Breaking News
One of the directors of Agents’ Mutual, parent body of portal OnTheMarket, has told Estate Agent Today that his firm does...
22 April 2016
From: Breaking News
The Competitions and Markets Authority has sent two open letters - one to online publishers and one to marketeers - warning...
06 April 2016
From: Breaking News
The raterAgent website is to use an automatic email generating service to encourage more reviews. raterAgent has teamed up with Reapit to...
18 February 2016
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority has updated its advice to all online review sites - including those for estate agencies and...
12 February 2016
From: Breaking News
The year is already in full swing with some agents on holiday in the next few days - and deserving a...
12 February 2016
From: Breaking News
It’s been another busy week for charitable good works from our industry. We ran this example of a particularly public-spirited agent earlier...
15 January 2016
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority says one of its priorities for 2016-17 is to pursue a project analysing the accuracy and...
04 January 2016
From: Breaking News
The Competitions and Markets Authority - which earlier this year fined an estate agency trade group £735,000 - has set out...
19 November 2015
From: Breaking News
The Bank Holiday weekend heralds the end of August and the return to a more normal sales and lettings market for...
28 August 2015
From: Breaking News
The estate agency industry is “in the sights of” the Competitions and Markets Authority according to a competition lawyer. “All the evidence...
04 August 2015
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority is reported to have received two complaints about a property centre, accusing it of breaking anti-competition...