Archive

Millions of people use online property portals every year to conduct their property search, whether it be for sales or for...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) deemed yesterday that the use of POA or “price on application”...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said it may consider complaints about ‘misleading SSTC listings’ on portals but suggests it may...

Trading Standards has advised agents to update listings once they reach the "sold subject to contract" (SSTC) stage. It comes after legal...

Agents will be able to grill Rightmove’s legal and compliance director David Cox this morning as part of the portal’s webinar...

They say that in fashion, if you wait for long enough, clothes that are hanging at the back of your wardrobe...

For an unregulated industry, agents have an awful lot of regulations to deal with. For example, there’s the mandatory membership of a...

The work of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team is “vital” it claims - and the case of the...

A banned West Midlands estate agent has today been sentenced to a custodial sentence of six weeks, suspended for two years, and fined £4,000 at Wolverhampton Crown Court after pleading guilty...

NAEA Propertymark says there’s no appetite that it can see amongst its representatives across the UK for charging people £30 for...

Propertymark says a new pay-per-viewing service is “interesting” but warns agents to protect themselves by abiding by consumer protection regulations. The warning has come following...

The Trading Standards agency team has outlined to Estate Agent Today the process it will follow to improve what it calls...

The controversial demands of Trading Standards for more “material information” to be provided upfront in property details have been criticised by...

National Trading Standards wants agents, portals and industry groups to come up with ways to provide basic essential material information ‘upfront’.  The National...

Future complaints about property raffles by individual home owners seeking to avoid estate agency fees will in future be handled by...

When it comes to major issues confronting housing, and in particular the direction that the government would like to take the...

It is understood that an estate agent from Cornwall is to face trial over allegations that he misled potential customers over...

A large part of the DCLG’s Call for Evidence on the home buying and selling process focuses on the role of...

An estate agency has been fined by a local authority for putting up a 'Sold' board outside a house more than...

With an anticipated “Call for Evidence” from the Dept of Business Innovation & Skills looking into the home-buying experience ETSOS is...

An estate agency has been fined after a trading standards team accused it of making misleading statements on its website. Warwickshire county...

An agent at the centre of the campaign to expose and stop portal juggling wants to know whether the National Trading...

With ever increasing obligations, estate agents know that compliance matters now more than ever.  However, being able to obtain access to the...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team is warning agents not to engage in portal juggling - an activity it describes...

As a service provider to both Estate Agents and Conveyancing Solicitors from one platform, ETSOS sits in a fairly unique position...

There have been concerns raised over new trading standards guidance for estate agents on having to reveal ‘significant defects’ about properties...

A new trading standards Guidance on Property Sales has been launched aimed at improving estate agency service to customers.  The Powys-based National...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team has prepared a draft of revised guidelines on property sales, to replace the old...

The internet and rapidly evolving digital landscape has revolutionised the way people buy and sell properties. With some reports suggesting 95 per...