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Remember the early days of lockdown when there was a general panic? Perhaps the hot demand for toilet rolls was a sign...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, we have another industry big-hitter and one of the most high-profile female leaders in property...

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

It’s a big ask to expect anyone to suddenly change what they have always done, particularly if their results have proven...

The reviews element of the ESTAS Group has signed a two year deal with Hunters. The agreement means Hunters - now part...

Anyone working in residential property knows it is taking longer and longer to get from SSTC (sold subject to contract) to...

Coadjute, the long-awaited real-time network which uses Blockchain technology to sell a property, is launched today with its first property deal...

The government and property industry have been talking about it for a long time, and there have been numerous initiatives introduced...

In the world of football – very topical at the moment, as we all enjoy the Euros – there is an...

The race to complete home sales before the stamp duty holiday came to an end on June 30 has created what...

By any measure, the housing market has been unprecedently busy in recent months, fuelled not just by the stamp duty holiday...

A company supplying data to conveyancers and other property professionals warns that Japanese Knotweed is a bigger headache than usual this summer. A wet and frosty spring,...

In an unusual move, HM Land Registry has issued guidance to agents to help them reassure jittery buyers and sellers ahead...

In the first of a two-part special with the presidents of the UK’s largest property trade organisation, we carry out an...

The finance arm of a leading estate agency has taken the unusual step of warning about delays in the conveyancing process. “The...

ESTAS has announced that SDL Property Auctions has become an executive partner for the 2021 Forum and Awards sponsored by Coadjute. In...

The current housing market frenzy would be easier to deal with if upfront buyers’ packs were available, improving transparency and cutting...

Amro Partners, the Build to Rent and student accommodation operator, has launched a venture capital arm investing in PropTech and FinTech. Amro...

The Law Society has published new guidance for what it calls “under-pressure conveyancing solicitors” as the stamp duty deadline of June...

The editor of the legal publication the Law Gazette has taken an estate agent to task for daring to suggest that...

New data shows no let-up on the pressure on the conveyancing sector as the stamp duty holiday and the broader economic...

An anonymous conveyancer has admitted increasing fees to deter buyers and sellers in the frenzied housing market during the stamp duty...

Digital marketing agency Angels Media and digital platform Gazeal have announced an exclusive strategic partnership to help improve and speed up...

The head of one of the UK’s largest conveyancing legal practices is warning the property market could “fall off a cliff...

Thousands of sales are at risk because slow searches by councils may prevent deals completing by the next stamp duty deadline. With just under...

TM Group and sales progression solution mio have signed up as partners for the 2021 ESTAS Forum & Awards, sponsored by...

A new home buying platform set up by a challenger portal will donate £100 to charity for every transaction it fails...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Ben Ridgway, Group Managing Director at iamproperty. What is iamproperty...

In a return to a favourite series of mine, as it gives an excellent insight into the very many facets of...

The interim executive chair of Propertymark has now taken up a leading role in The Conveyancing Association Nicky Heathcote is becoming the...

With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...

New Land Registry rules mean conveyancers and solicitors must have written evidence to show they have tried to resolve a request...

Agents are being urged to push through their pipelines before the upcoming stamp duty deadlines. The plea comes from Simply Conveyancing, which...

A PropTech firm says its new tool allows comprehensive upfront property information to be shared instantly with all parties in a...

The ESTAS Group has named a new headline sponsor for its 2021 Forum and Awards, taking over from Zoopla with immediate effect. It’s...

The last property event I attended in person – and I think the last physical property event held all told –...

A leading conveyancing industry chief says the one factor that would help improve the slow house buying process today would be the...

The UK property market is always evolving but never as quickly as it is now. Traditional estate agents are seriously questioning...

One of the most outspoken campaigners against stamp duty has been fined for avoiding tens of thousands of pounds in … stamp...

We are just over one year on from the day our lives truly changed, when the UK went into its first...

Conveyancers should consider the provision of electric vehicle parking and charging in transactions according to a legal company. Law firm says that...

The Law Society is to pilot upfront conveyancers’ information for home buyers and sellers. This will involve the TA6 form which contains...

Later this year, on October 22, the ESTAS 2021 will take place in London. The glittering ceremony will welcome property professionals...

The findings of the new ‘Thriving in a Pandemic’ report, recently published by tmgroup and mio, have highlighted that the market...

One of the companies at the heart of the campaign to provide more upfront information to prospective buyers has struck a...

Rarely do Budgets produce positive sentiments from the agency industry but Chancellor Rishi Sunak appears to have won widespread support for...

The head of a PropTech platform wants financial penalties on conveyancers if transactions miss deadlines. “The only way to accelerate the current...

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...

A prominent conveyancer has hit out at the extension to the stamp duty holiday, which is now ending in late June and...

A conveyancing trade publication wants those involved in residential transactions to be kind to each other - especially as the stamp duty...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak will extend the stamp duty holiday deadline until the end of June - a three month extension. The lead...

Reservation Agreement specialist Gazeal is to sponsor the Estate Agent categories at The ESTAS later this year. Gazeal chief executive Bryan Mansell...

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

The biggest awards in the residential property sector, The ESTAS, has confirmed an autumn date for its main 2021 event.  Traditionally the...

There is no scientific formula, no list of must-have elements in a successful campaign. That’s especially the case for a campaign involving...

We are now over four weeks in to our third national lockdown in the UK. Although the property market remains open,...

Labour and Conservative MPs have expressed a unanimous view on their desire to see an extension of the stamp duty holiday...

Properties are currently taking 29 per cent longer than average to sell once under offer, according to research by a home...

A PropTech supplier says the conveyancing process is “antiquated” and buyers and sellers would be better served if they were ’shadowed’...

The property market became somewhat fractious during 2020. After receiving a much-needed boost with the promise of stamp duty relief, things...

The government may be stopping MPs debating an extension to the stamp duty holiday - despite a pledge they would do...

A PropTech company has won a grant for a project to improve ID verification in the buying and selling process, via...

A national newspaper is today launching a campaign for the stamp duty holiday to be extended. The Daily Telegraph says its campaign...

Sir Kier Starmer has told the government it should look again at whether estate agents’ viewings of properties for sale and...

Just a week ago, I thought it was all over. Christmas and New Year had gone, as had the passionate calls...

There’s growing optimism that an extension to the stamp duty holiday - thought to be off the agenda just days ago...

A mortgage lender says it will now accept ‘no-search indemnity insurance’ for residential purchases in a bid to speed up the...

A trade body has called on House Secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene over the growing problem of delays in councils providing...

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...

Solicitors’ leaders say members of their industry are suffering mental health problems as a result of the workload to meet the...

MPs lobbied by agents to extend the stamp duty holiday are staying firmly on the fence with standard answers and no...

Delays with the return of property searches is one key factor for sales taking longer to complete. As conveyancers start to warn...

‘Many are in complete denial about the time it takes and still think it’s eight to 10 weeks.’ I won’t tell you...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

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

As what now seems like a common occurrence everything has changed again since I last sat down to write about the...

A high-profile publicity campaign has culminated in the launch of a new CRM which calls itself as “a transformative new technology, empowering...

Searches that are bound by the Search Code, protecting the seller, buyer and lender, are property and not client specific. As...

The director of a conveyancing technology company has hit out at what he calls “an over-reliance on outdated processes” and “age-old...

The customer service performance of conveyancers has improved in recent months according to the ESTAS review platform.  The long-standing and sometimes-heated debate...

One of the country’s top buying agents is advising purchasers and vendors to avoid online agencies and 'bucketshop' conveyancers. Edward Heaton - founder...

A prominent PropTech supplier wants agents to hand over much more information to conveyancers to allow them to make faster progress on...

Watching the government’s surprise press conference a couple of weekends ago the message was clear; we were heading into a gruelling...

A law firm wants the government to agree that properties that have exchanged but not yet completed can definitely benefit from the...

Conveyancers have considered whether the long-standing ‘caveat emptor’ or buyer beware principle in a property purchase should be replaced by ‘vendor...

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

The 2021 ESTAS Customer Service Awards are to be held on Friday June 11. For the first time the awards will host...

Purplebricks recently launched a meditation service to help buyers and sellers manage stress. You might disagree with the idea, but moving...

Buyers in around 30 per cent of English cities are almost certainly already too late to complete a purchase by March 31...

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

Figures just released from HM Revenue & Customs show just how much stamp duty buyers pay, at least before the current holiday...

A leading market analyst says the widespread belief that we are ‘safe’ in our homes may indirectly lead to the recent...

The housing market is to remain open in the four week lockdown in England. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been told to avoid a stamp duty holiday cliff-edge next March at any price - because it...

A conveyancing firm is blaming councils for delays in transactions. Conveyancers have themselves been sharply criticised in recent weeks as the sharp...

The outgoing chief executive of the National Association of Estate Agents is warning that the sales system continues to struggle with...

The Stamp Duty Land Tax holiday has been a hot topic of conversation for many in the residential property industry –...

Savills says the shape and size of the housing market in the coming months will be determined by the capacity of conveyancers...

I had a wry smile when I read the article on Monday from the conveyancers complaining about people getting off their...

Delays across the house buying sector mean those wanting to benefit from the stamp duty holiday need to begin the buying...

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

2020 has definitely been a year of change. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the day-to-day operations of almost every industry...

With many transactions now delayed by up to three weeks by slow searches, a body representing local search providers is urging...

The latest review by the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team into referral fees places the outdated practice of...

In early September, mio achieved an industry first with the release of the mio chain view API. Now, all the parties...

A woman who bought a London house in 2012 is now suing the conveyancers that worked for her at the time...

Consumer group Which? says the stamp duty holiday has cut more than £4,000 from the average cost of moving home -...

Property technology company OneDome, which operates two portals - OneDome and Nethouseprices - has raised another £5m in funding.  It says it...

The cross-sector group looking at reforming the sales process has agreed a new pledge which it says introduces greater transparency for...

New PropTech products continue to appear, many aimed at enhancing transparency in buying and selling, or helping agents adopt new ways of...

Two agencies have entered the debate on whether the current frenzied housing market is seeing delays in completions. Yesterday EAT reported that...

Almost two fifths of property buyers don't know what conveyancers and solicitors do, according to new research. My Home Move Conveyancing's survey...

For a number of years now, predictions have been made that one of the major tech giants will eventually enter the...

Research by Zoopla has revealed the scale of the mistakes by and regrets for disillusioned home buyers. For large numbers of people...

The new president of NAEA Propertymark says one of her key objectives for the year ahead is to prepare the industry...

It’s fair to say that UK estate agents don’t have the best of reputations, often featuring in the lists of the...

Customer review and awards platform the ESTAS is parting company with headline partner Zoopla after 10 years. The founder of The ESTAS...

HM Land Registry customers - including agents and conveyancers - can now manage all of their applications and correspondence including notices,...

A PropTech platform that aims to lock-in sellers and buyers via a mutually agreed reservation agreement system is being offered free...

Conferences, events and awards dinners are a hugely important part of the property calendar, bringing the great and the good of...

Emma Vigus, managing director of sales progression platform mio, in discussion with key suppliers in the residential property industry on operating...

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

At a recent Conveyancing Association webinar focused on the provision of upfront information in the property sale process, there was a...

In the second of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, Managing Director of mio, the Estate Agents Sales Progression platform, explores...

An estate agency is warning that the likely rush of transactions when the new stamp duty holiday ends next spring will...

Collaboration creates a bigger market Iain White, of the Innovation Collaboration Group “the Estate Agency industry must recognise that collaboration will...

With three months of lockdown behind us, commission income is vital, and sales progression is more important than ever. Emma Vigus, Managing...

Buyer registrations and sales enquiries are reportedly back to pre-Covid levels. Completions, however, are lagging behind. This is probably down to...

A tax and legal specialist says there’s been a huge rise in stamp duty refund cases between March and June -...

PropTech supplier mio says it now has over 1,000 agency branches using its sales progression platform - and it’s recruited Countrywide...

Consumers are not as worried as they should be about conveyancing fraud, putting them at risk of losing life-changing sums of...

The government is jeopardising the success of the housing market relaunch through the inflexibility of the furlough scheme, claims a group...

A specialist legal advisory service is urging conveyancers to use the reopening of the housing market as an opportunity to increase...

A large majority of property professionals polled by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors say a stamp duty holiday would be...

Guidance issued by the government explicitly advises agents, buyers and sellers that more activity should be done online if possible. “The process...

It’s back to work today for England’s estate agents and the housing market - but it’s the start of a new...

There has been much speculation about when agents will be allowed back to work, and what the new office working environment...

HM Land Registry is making it easier to verify individuals’ ID from today. In addition to conveyancers and chartered legal executives, verification...

Housing minister Chris Pincher is drawing up guidelines which could allow agents to return to something like normal working in the near...

The coming week’s stories in the mainstream media - inevitably focused on Coronavirus - will be dominated by two things. Firstly there...

Business consultancy TwentyCi is the latest to try to put a value on the potential losses to the property industry and...

At the moment, it somehow seems like tempting fate to think too far into the future, especially in terms of the...

If it’s really the case that estate agents’ offices could be in the category of High Street premises first allowed to...

Three more agencies have signed up to the ESTAS customer review platform. The arrival of Newton Fallowell, Lovelle and Goodchilds - all...

Another body is calling for a stamp duty holiday to help resuscitate the housing market following the Coronavirus standstill. The Royal Institute...

One of Britain’s leading agents says online viewing and interest in videos for homes on sale continues to be relatively strong...

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

The government has at last issued extensive advice on home moving and the activities of estate agents during the continuing Coronavirus crisis. This...

Your business may be growing quicker than you could ever imagine which is great when it comes to raising brand awareness....

The head of a firm that has been creating digital property log books for well over a decade says the house-moving...

The ESTAS today reveals its shortlist for the 2020 Awards which includes the Zoopla Xcellence Award - a special category that celebrates...

The National Association of Estate Agents has launched its Sales Protocol Toolkit, in a bid to reduce fall-throughs and dramatically improve...

The Law Society is telling prospective house purchasers to probe flood risks in the light of a new practice note it...

“It appears conveyancers either aren’t too concerned with PropTech right now, or they don’t yet have all the information needed to...

The Law Society has announced that there will be a new TA6 Property Information Form launching next week, on Friday February...

Rightmove and Zoopla have been working with key figures from government and the agency and conveyancing industries on how to reform...

It is possible that agents and their business partners in the conveyancing, mortgage and survey industries could be obliged to have...

Some older estate agents may end up retiring when mandatory examinations and qualifications are introduced as there will be no ‘free...

Logbooks about properties must be made available up-front at the point of marketing and not later in the buying process if...

Reapit has joined a consortium attempting to make the long-anticipated end-to-end digital home buying process a reality. It’s joined the IPN Consortium,...

Estate agents and others in the property industry have much more to do to deter money laundering. That’s the view of a security...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emily Hawthorne, mio Account Manager for the South West of...

Alex Chesterman, the entrepreneur who founded Zoopla, has given vocal backing to a new conveyancing app called Thirdfort. The app allows conveyancers’...

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

A new tie-up between Coadjute, a network for decentralised workflow and data sharing within the property industry, and banks including NatWest...

[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...

A PropTech company says the majority of transactions now involve chains and that the issue is becoming more problematic for agents...

There’s been a significant drop in the number of housing transactions dealt with by conveyancers in the first nine months of...

ESTAS, the national customer service award scheme which recognises estate and letting agents,  conveyancers and mortgage advisors, has now fully launched...

Reservation Agreements are the subject of the moment in the agency industry. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is to...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card?  Jason Wilson, mio Account Manager What is mio and what does...

Reservation Agreements may require bigger financial penalties than the £500 to £1,000 currently envisaged if they are to work. That’s the view...

Another estate agency has come out in favour of reservation agreements. High-end agency Chestertons says transactions currently fall through too frequently and the...

There are many adjectives that can be applied to Boris Johnson, probably very few of them complimentary, but there’s one that...

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

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has given more details of the trial of reservation agreements likely to take...

Yopa – launched in 2015 as part of the new breed of hybrid operators seeking to shake up the industry –...

A trade body has sharply criticised HM Land Registry for its slow progress on digitising local searches after a promising start...

Reservation agreements locking in buyers and sellers could be trailed with some agencies and conveyancers early in 2020, a government official...

Case study: Connells reaping the time-saving benefits of new sales and communication tool Since adopting mio in September 2018, Josh Lally, Senior...

The reform of the buying process is to take centre stage at a special conference called Bold Legal LIVE! taking place...

Property management service Move with Us has announced a new partnership with chain management service View My Chain. Move with Us, founded...

A London estate agency says one of its buyers wants to delay completion until November 1 “just in case stamp duty...

This is the busiest week of the year for house moves, with the single busiest day being Friday according to a...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Phil Smith - mio Account manager What is mio and what does...

A sales progression tool is urging property professionals and consumers alike to do more to speed up typical transaction times, and...

What a credit to the industry so many agents, surveyors and suppliers are: this week’s ADC shows the diverse range of...

A new analysis of stamp duty suggests that a cut of around a third in SDLT could produce a 40 per...

I feel I am in a fortunate position. I have been central to the PropTech movement for a number of years,...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card?             Becky Howes, mio Account Manager What...

In the last ten years Google's revenue, largely from pay per click ads (Adwords), has grown by 527% (Source: Statista). In...

Purplebricks’ former chief executive Lee Wainwright has made a stout defence of the controversial agency’s sales progression process and its local...

A conveyancing body is calling on mortgage lenders to standardise their policies in respect of unexpired lease terms in order to...

Instant online valuation service The ValPal Network has revealed a conveyancing partner which it says will help agents boost referral fees.  The...

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

In recent years, estate and letting agents have been faced with a series of tough challenges to absorb and react to. There...

Just 200 conveyancing firms control over 39 per cent of the market in England and Wales, wielding significant power over customers,...

Two PropTech suppliers have this week announced new partnerships and products with the aim of helping estate agents.  Firstly, sales progression and...

More than 800 property transactions fall through daily, which can have repercussions both practically and financially, as agents fail to get...

A large-scale survey by a consumer group has revealed that over half of home owners regard stamp duty as a growing...

Over the last few years, there have a number of changes to the stamp duty land tax (SDLT) regime, which have...

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

Thinking about the state of communication across residential property chains is enough to induce a severe migraine. We work in a world...

Two 'challenger portals' have revealed major new services this morning as they fight to take on Rightmove and Zoopla. OneDome, the new...

Half of first time buyers say they made expensive mistakes during their process of purchasing their home, with mortgage brokers, removal...

The proliferation of big data is paving the way to improving our economy on almost every front as entrepreneurial digital companies...

The ESTAS has released details of those agents and suppliers to the industry who have been shortlisted for the most prestigious...

The head of residential property at a law firm is warning that referral fees can backfire on estate agents who may...

The director of strategy at the Council for Licensed Conveyancers says “the onus is very much on estate agents” to respond...

A new sales portal has launched with a radically different business model, aiming to pay agents to list on it. It’s the brainchild of...

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...

A review of the housing market at present, particularly when it comes to purchase transactions, might not necessarily feel overly positive.  The...

Politicians and officials are studying a ‘model’ two page reservation agreement drawn up by a law firm as a possible way...

It’s been revealed that the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team is to deliver new guidelines to agents for referral fees...

The head of a property management company says conveyancers must do more to ensure buyers of leasehold properties fully understand the...

The number of active conveyancing firms handling property transactions in England and Wales has fallen to an eight year low.  A market...

It’s been revealed that 37 regulated conveyancing firms have repelled attempted frauds in the past year. But 11 conveyancing firms have actually...

How will things be done in the future? There’s no knowing, of course, given the many variables at play, but it’s...

Conveyancers’ use of data and technology to speed through sales is on the cusp of a ‘big bang’ moment according to...

A digital conveyancing platform says a lack of transparency in the house moving process - particularly regarding legal costs - is...

Agents may sometimes have a tense relationship with conveyancers but admit it - when our legal colleagues are good, they are...

Just under one in five buyers in the past two years have suffered moving day delays, either because funds have been...

A government minister has told the estate agency industry that it must be more transparent over the issue of referral fees. In...

A call has gone out for conveyancers to have all monies - including mortgage funds - in place the day before...

You will perhaps have seen recently that the Government has decided to boost funding to the regulator, the National Trading Standards...

Some conveyancers must publish some price and service information on their websites and in other media from December 6, according to...

HM Land Registry says the full roll-out of its Local Land Charges digital register could take up to seven years, with...

Fresh data from a PropTech firm suggests that 'conveyancer absenteeism' is causing severe delays to property transactions. When You Move reports that...

New rules set out by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC), which aim to support consumer choice, have been approved by...

Out and about recently, I got to thinking: how often do I actually have the call for cash anymore? Or, for...

After gaining my MBA qualification from Edinburgh Business School in 2005, I took careful consideration over my career moves and prospective...

The Council for Licensed Conveyancers says it wants legal practice websites to list cost information, including whether they have referral arrangements. The...

A leading legal firm has given broad approval to proposals from the Law Commission aimed at improving the conveyancing process and...

The Law Commission has unveiled proposals that it claims could stop property fraudsters in theirb tracks and improve conveyancing at the...

We are currently engaged in consultations with our members to help to find a practical solution to the concern of the...

You will notice that there is a new author for this regular column for Estate Agent Today. Last month I was...

A ‘disruptor’ tech company claims that large numbers of people are dissastisfied with the conveyancing element of house moves, with many...

As the process of making buying and selling more transparent continues to gather pace, the body that regulates conveyancers says it...

Despite numerous reports of a 'stagnant market' and predictions of a 'housing bust', conveyancers have 'bounced back after a disappointing end...

The Court of Appeal has overturned controversial fraud decisions which have a bearing on agents’ and conveyancers’ responsibilities for checking buyers’...

The prospect of technology transforming the selling and buying process, including more power for portals and especially online agents, dominated parts...

Estate Agent Today understands several major national agencies and some smaller operators are involved in a project to understand why transaction...

As the world becomes ever more digital and people increasingly look to technology to provide convenient solutions to sometimes complex problems,...

An umbrella body representing search organisations says searches “are very rarely the cause of delays” in transactions. The Council of Property Search...

The Conveyancing Association has backed the government’s calls for extensive reform of the buying and selling process, announced at the weekend. The...

The conveyancing industry regulator has thrown its weight behind the government’s proposals to improve the buying and selling process.  Stephen Ward, director of strategy...

  More details have emerged of the government’s proposals to enhance estate agency regulation, regulate referral fees, offer guides for buyers and...

The government has announced further measures which will, in its words, “professionalise” house buying and the estate agency business. In yet another Sunday...

Industry suppliers Landmark Information and The ValPal Network have entered what they call “a strategic relationship” to provide the firms’ respective...

Three weeks has flown by (I missed an early deadline last week - apologies) and I find myself writing the next...

The comparison site Reallymoving, which allows users to get online quotes for conveyancers, surveyors and removal firms, has acquired the property...

A critic of the conveyancing process has accused a law firm’s charge of £95 for “exchange and completion within five working...

Welcome once again to Property Jobs Today, the notice-board for agents, suppliers and other property professionals moving within, out or in...

Crimestoppers is working with estate agencies and financial advisers as well as conveyancers in a bid to eliminate house buyers’ deposits...

HM Land Registry has taken another step towards its aim to “make conveyancing simpler, faster and cheaper” for the general public. The...

In a show of changing consumer behaviour in the property market, new research has revealed that digital-savvy movers are favouring specialist...

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

In the great swathe of housing market data which is delivered each month, conveyancers’ case volumes often get overlooked, however the...

Home movers are opting to use specialist conveyancers over local solicitors, according to new research. Conveyancing software firm InfoTrack says 43% of...

We seem to be getting more and more contact from agents and others in the industry who are doing great work...

The government has given its support to Land Registry proposals to increase the digitalisation of its services, with changes coming into...

If you were under any misconceptions about how pivotal a role HM Land Registry is going to play in the future...

The ESTAS Group has announced record entries for its 2018 estate and letting agents awards.  The national award scheme - which recognises...

Japanese knotweed, the invasive plant brought over to Britain in the Victorian era, threatens millions of pounds worth of property transactions...

The body that regulates conveyancers says controversial referral fees should be disclosed earlier in the house buying process - but they...

The Society of Licensed Conveyancers says it is worried that HM Land Registry’s decision to publish details of apparent errors in...

HM Land Registry says it’s consulting with the legal industry on a proposal to publish a league table of conveyancers who...

A conveyancers’ trade body has told the government that it wants the house buying process to be modernised by having estate...

A company supplying the conveyancing industry claims that new research reveals 55 per cent of home-movers are frustrated by a lack...

The HM Land Registry has revealed more details of long-term plans to improve and speed up conveyancing processes in a five...

The first residential transaction has taken place under the so-called Conveyancer’s Code for Completion - a new procedure in which the...

The housing industry has set out a list of demands in advance of the government’s hotly anticipated Autumn Budget on Wednesday.  Despite...

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

A conveyancing body says it wants the government to allocate “a small fund” in next week’s Budget to promote research into...

An influential consumer group has responded to the government’s commitment to reform the house buying process by advocating legally-binding reservation agreements...

Three hundred of the UK’s top conveyancers have celebrated the success of the industry at the first ever ESTAS Conveyancer Awards. The...

The Conveyancing Association says some of its members are piloting HIPs-style Digital Home Reports in a bid to reduce fall-throughs and...

Conveyancers and the speed of local council searches have come in for criticism as details have emerged of the government’s consultation...

The founder of a new online sales assistance service says agents are often unfairly blamed by the public for failings in...

The Guild of Property Professionals has launched a partnership with the ESTAS Group, which runs the customer feedback platform and customer...

The ESTAS Group has today revealed the shortlist for its inaugural Conveyancer Awards.  Over 5,000 customers have completed a survey about the...

Whenever any research is released, part of me can’t help thinking of that old adage, ‘lies, damn lies and statistics’ especially...

  You’ll see a lot of 10th anniversary stories in the property industry and consumer media in the coming days: early August...

A Conservative commitment to allow more fracking is the trigger for conveyancers to gather yet more environmental information during the search...

The Competition and Markets Authority has released a set of recommendations on how conveyancing, and other legal services, could be made...

Entries for the new ESTAS Conveyancing Awards are now open and you have just over a month to get nominations in...

A new PropTech venture aims to do what the ill-fated Veyo system failed to achieve -  creating an online platform bringing...