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Buyers typically pay 10.8 per cent extra for chain-free properties than for similar homes with chains, according to new research. Website GetAgent...

An insurance firm is warning that one of the key risks facing that industry this year revolves around professional negligence claims...

Agents finding it difficult to persuade potential vendors to come to the market this early in the year have new ammunition...

As this is the first Natter back since the Christmas break, I should like to first wish all our readers a...

Estate Agent Today understands that the civil servant who has been at the heart of plans to reform the house buying...

The conveyancing technology firm Search Acumen has launched what it calls “an end-to-end solution” in a bid to abolish “antiquated” ways...

A warning has gone out to estate agents that “more and more” reports are being filed about cyber attacks on agencies...

A conveyancer has contacted Estate Agent Today suggesting that the Simplify Group IT data crisis could be the death knell for the company...

Government regulation and reform of house buying should see the process made faster and easier in 2022, it’s been predicted. Lloyd Davies - managing...

A leading conveyancing expert says the traditional rivalry between his profession and estate agents has abated in 2021. Lloyd Davies - managing director and...

A housing market forecast based on conveyancing instructions says average prices will dip this month. Average prices will fall by 1.1 per...

A consultancy specialising in data protection issues has sharply criticised the Simplify Group for its ongoing lack of communications over its...

Leasehold, quite rightly, remains not just an emotive topic given what has happened over the past decade, but it’s very much...

A conveyancing company is asking clients to set their own fee - with some strings. Zen Move Solicitors is a year-old digital...

Demand will continue to outpace supply well into next year.  That’s the view of the Reallymoving House Price Forecast, based on an...

Phil Spencer’s new series of Move iQ podcasts is to be sponsored by Propertymark. During the nine part series, Spencer will talk...

EAT readers may have seen a piece in Friday’s property section of The Times about the long-running Simplify saga, which has...

A petition is being started, urging the government to ban the payment of referral fees to estate agents. It’s reported to have...

With 2022 swiftly approaching, businesses in the property industry are likely to be reflecting on the trials and tribulations that have...

A record number of conveyancers have been trained in the last 18 months, despite the challenges of the pandemic and extended...

Despite the progress made in so many areas, particularly in terms of leasehold reform – although we are calling upon the...

Well it’s about time isn’t it? We mean winter - it’s here at last, with white, wintry weather that gets us...

Agents must have a robust plan in place in case they are subjected to a ransomware cyber attack, says the Guild...

The Simplify Group’s latest statement on the ongoing IT problem suggests a gradual improvement in services to agents and other clients. It...

Some 14 trade bodies in the estate agency, conveyancing, property management and surveying industries have jointly launched new upfront documents which...

The police have been called in to investigate the ongoing cyber-security incident which has led to many firms in the Simplify...

With the conveyancing crisis at the Simplify Group now approaching two weeks old, it appears Purplebricks has been the worst affected...

The conveyancing IT crash plaguing the Simplify Group of companies continues into its ninth day; however there is an update for...

Conveyancing firms in the Simplify Group, hit by a massive systems crash for much of this week, say they are working...

There’s been an update this morning on the dramatic systems crash that has hit the conveyancing services operated by the Simplify...

Property experts have joined forces to call for faster and more secure transactions.  The PropTech and conveyancing voices have united in warning...

In this latest video interview, exclusively available for EAT & LAT readers, Lee Dahill speaks to Ben Ridgway, managing director of...

A prominent law expert is claiming that a high profile case of property fraud, reported earlier this week, involved a “devastating...

The average time for home-movers to get through the conveyancing process has dropped by 27 days since the summer, according to Rightmove.  The...

As you are no doubt aware, building mutually beneficial relationships with conveyancers in your local area can not only make your...

The average cost of buying and selling a home in England this year has soared from £6,877 before the end of...

The largest live event in the property industry for two years took place last Friday - the ESTAS awards.  TV property expert...

With soaring property prices, supply continuing to be outstripped by demand and overworked and overtired industry professionals; we’re seeing the sector...

The ESTAS – often known as the property world’s version of the Oscars – returns as an in-person event this Friday...

Another market snapshot has identified low supply as the chief characteristic of the sales landscape this autumn. Landmark Information Group’s latest Property...

In this thought leadership article, Videosign CEO Steven Tallant looks at electronic signatures and conveyancing and whether the time is nigh for the...

The Modern Method of Auction (MMoA), also known as Conditional auction, can sometimes get a bad rap. However, much of the...

Rightmove - which for some time has linked solely with iamsold to provide the controversial Modern Method of Auction system to...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? As Chief Business Development Officer I am responsible for Simplify’s...

The stamp duty holiday concluded at midnight, marking the end of the busiest period for the industry - all parts of...

The recent stamp duty holiday and the subsequent conveyancing logjam this triggered has acted as a wakeup call for the industry....

In this guest editorial, experienced property solicitor Lorraine Richardson argues that reservation agreements - designed to reduce the number of fall-throughs in...

Industry-wide adoption of Unique Property Reference Numbers could be one step closer after an announcement by a major trade body. The Conveyancing...

The property market over the last 18 months has seen unprecedented activity - as a result of changed priorities, the stamp...

The property market is unlikely to enter a last-minute rush before the final stamp duty holiday ends in October, research claims. Analysis...

An online conveyancer is on the hunt for a mansion tester. My Home Move Conveyancing is seeking a mansion tester who will...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity - another edition of good will and cheer generated by the industry’s fund-raising heroes. It’s...

Homebuyers are suffering huge delays in receiving responses to their search requests to council according to a study of local authorities. Consumer...

Hello, and here’s the bad news to get it over with - this is the final Bank Holiday weekend before…Christmas. Now that’s...

An estate agency comparison website has conducted research into how much it costs to simply keep an average home in a...

My neighbour had been seeking to move home for some time. Suggestions that he wanted to get away from his neighbours...

The estate agents’ trade body has set out three ways conveyancers can further help the sales process. Propertymark has made the suggestions...

Apart from a buoyant market, high transaction levels, and consumer confidence in the property market, one considerable additional benefit which has...

Transaction volumes in prime London fell in July according to data from LonRes. Transactions were down 22 per cent compared with July...

We’re about to enter August and second half of the Olympic Games - and fund-raising is happening at a Gold medal...

The already-high fall-through rate for transactions is likely to be supercharged by the impending end of the tapered stamp duty holiday...

Zoopla data has confirmed that buyer demand started to moderate in the months prior to the initial stamp duty holiday tapering...

The post-lockdown housing market boom is showing signs of a significant slowdown according to a new forecast. The prediction, from the quote...

Boy it’s been hot out there - yet even 30 degrees or more have failed to stifle the enthusiasm of our...

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...

Ben Ridgway gives his views on the current market, material information and PropTech for agents. What is your current view of the...

An agent support service set up in the early days of the pandemic has closed down with its architect saying “If...

Two of Britain's largest agency groups have sold their stakes in a property search firm. Both LSL and Connells have announced the sale...

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

A conveyancing services firm is warning that buyers are making “hasty rather than considered” decisions over properties because they feel under...

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

Back in April, leading portal Zoopla launched a new multi-million-pound marketing campaign, its biggest ever, to help agents capitalise on the...

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,...

Peter Everett - a veteran High Street estate agent with a quarter of a century at LSL and a decade at...

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

Around 18 months ago, just a few months before the pandemic hit, I did a Natter with the team at software...

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

Right now it seems that another day means another house price record, an all-time high for transactions, and a conveyancing log-jam...

“A hybrid offering, which serves customers of all needs and capabilities, is what we should all be working towards.” Following Aconveyancing opening...

Hello and we’re at the end of another week celebrating all those in our industry who do great work. And this...

There are over 700,000 homes marked Sold Subject to Contract and going through conveyancing right now, according to a new Rightmove...

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...

An estate agency says disgruntled and delayed property buyers are fast falling out of love with the stamp duty holiday, which...

Independent agents come in all shapes, sizes and looks, many with their own USPs and little quirks. It is this variety...

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

Tech is a fantastic enabler but should never be a complete replacement for the human interactions that add real value to...

Movebutler, the digital onboarding platform from online auction specialist iamproperty, says it has some 900 agency branches signed up. These include Martin...

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

LSL Property Services, owner of Reeds Rains and Your Move agencies, has sold its holding in conveyancing panel management firm LMS...

Rightmove is to review the processes of an online platform which directly uploads sellers' property details via an app. Two years ago...

An unusual price forecast based on conveyancing quotes suggests the housing market is to continue busy over the summer with more...

One of the country’s leading estate agents claims some solicitors are charging exorbitant fees on transactions as they near the latest...

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

It’s now over a year since the property market officially reopened after an unprecedented two-month shutdown at the height of the...

The government has set up a committee to push forward ideas on the collective form of homeownership known as commonhold. Housing Secretary...

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...

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

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

As an estate agent, you should of course be performing robust Know Your Customer (KYC) checks as part of your Anti-Money...

Propertymark is staging a webinar today tackling the challenging issue of conveyancing - just as the market is at its busiest...

The private treaty process has been in need of modernisation for a long time. When we open an account with a...

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...

In my previous Estate Agent Today feature, I endeavoured to explain the key differences between APIs and Apps, to help improve...

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

An analysis of the average time taken for properties from 10 leading estate agency brands to complete shows a significant increase...

This time out, I speak to one of the industry’s biggest-hitters. Adrian Gill may have retired from frontline agency, having had...

A survey of 5,000 agents suggests the slow house selling and buying process is one of the biggest challenges facing the...

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...

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...

NAEA Propertymark says a record number of transactions are taking four months to move from offer to exchange. The organisation says this...

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

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

An industry group charged with trying to make house buying simpler and quicker says it’s made a breakthrough on ‘upfront’ information...

Agents have been warned they are likely to require PropTech assistance to cope with a surge in transactions expected this year. The...

Following the fluctuation of the property market during the UK’s first national lockdown, the industry was given a lifeline by the...

The latest house price index from the Halifax suggests the market has softened ahead of the original scheduled end of the stamp...

A conveyancing organisation has launched an initiative called Be Kind We Care to promote kindness and wellbeing within the property industry. The...

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

The firm behind iamsold, the leading operator in the controversial Modern Method of Auction arena, is entering the private treaty sales...

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...

An estate agency is this month launching packs of up-front information for buyers in a bid to speed sales and reduce fall-throughs.  Miles...

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

Connells Group says it is the UK's largest estate agency group by market share - and that's before the Countrywide acquisition...

Conveyancing volumes rose 27 per cent in just one month as the sector attempts to cope with huge demand prompted by...

Agents should put as much emphasis on ensuring a house move actually happens as on winning the instruction to begin with,...

An MP demanding a root and branch reform of property taxation, including scrapping stamp duty, says the chance of fundamental reform is...

There’s been a huge focus on both the stamp duty holiday and Help To Buy deadlines at the end of March...

Experts are warning that buyers rushing to complete before the March 31 cliff edge for the stamp duty holiday may miss...

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

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

It’s been some time since online agencies have ventured into crowdfunding to raise investment, but easyProperty has now done so -...

Homeowners staying at home during another lockdown are doing more than sharing memes of groundhog day or doing family quizzes on...

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

The New Year lull is well and truly over and this week’s Agents Do Charity show fundraising is back in business despite...

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...

The latest Rightmove analysis shows it now takes 126 days from the time an offer is accepted until legal completion -...

Two of the most outspoken agents in the industry have criticised those calling for an extension to the stamp duty holiday...

Countrywide and Foxtons have thrown their weight behind an idea to identify every single UK residential property with a unique number. The...

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

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

An auction house that's made a transition from ballroom operations to online streaming is to publish all fees for all lots -...

A house price index that is routinely one of the most pessimistic about the market claims the New Year will see...

The largest company involved in the controversial Modern Method of Auction says it’s producing a “disruptive digital market campaign to address...

Agents and property experts have reacted angrily to the government's refusal to extend the stamp duty holiday. The government has told campaigners that...

Revenues have slumped by 18 per cent at LSL Property Services, the corporate which boasts Your Move and Reeds Rains and...

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,...

A digital resource hub for estate agents launches a new product today, claiming to shorten transaction times.  Sort Move, which has been...

Hello, and if it’s Friday it can only mean Charity day as we celebrate the industry’s continuing fund-raising despite challenges from...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Vicky Quinn-Campbell – Sales and Marketing Director What is ‘company name’...

We’re just a few days from December so why not get into the festive spirit a little early and get some...

A survey of completion times for house sales over the past four years suggests that the worst performing local authority area...

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 founder of OneDome says a likely housing market slowdown is the perfect time for agents to optimise revenue by investing in PropTech. Babek Ismayil believes...

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

Estate agents can stand out from the crowd and help consumers through lockdown by providing a more secure sales process, a...

Just when you thought the housing market was beginning to calm down... along comes a likely vaccine for Coronavirus. One of the country’s...

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...

A new survey has been launched by the Residential Property Surveyors Association. The RPSA - which wants to rival the RICS as...

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

I remember so clearly in my Foxtons days, working as a lettings manager in Putney, that lettings, though less sexy than...

The national lockdown beginning on Thursday makes the case for an extension to the stamp duty holiday, according to a tax...

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

Recent figures emanating from the mortgage and housing market suggest that – since lockdown was ended in mid-May – transaction levels...

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...

There are 140,000 more buyers waiting to complete on their properties right now than there were this time last year. The claim, by...

Staying on top of the numbers and figures in a constantly changing industry can be stressful. Changing property prices can be...

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 –...

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

Some 713 estate agency branches have failed to reopen following the spring lockdown according to a business consultancy. TwentyCi says that is the...

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

We all know that people can’t move to a new house without going through the Conveyancing process. However, with that said,...

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...

Many agents, certainly those in London, will have faced the difficult task of selling a flat with a shorter lease. A...

A former healthcare executive is the latest convert to become an online agent with easyProperty, the company has announced. Richard Ayres has...

A survey says many people under-estimate the costs of moving with conveyancing and mortgage fees often higher than expected. Some 54 per cent of...

It’s about this time of year, pandemic or not, that agents may be asked one particularly awkward question by a vendor...

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

A new online platform claims to be the first of its kind to speed up the private treaty sales process for...

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

A quick buy firm which typically purchases homes from sellers at below market levels has accused estate agents and the private...

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

Vendors spend an average £41 a day for 144 days when selling their home - but some spend a remarkable £140 a...

Seller and landlord leads are what makes estate agency tick. Without them, new business is nowhere to be seen and you...

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

Logjams in the mortgage, conveyancing and removal stages of house moving mean sales are taking much longer than usual, according to...

A quick buy firm boasting it has ‘sold’ a home within six days also says it now takes 140 days on...

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

Rightmove is warning of a conveyancing log-jam that may delay sales, despite the ongoing frenzy of activity and faster transactions for...

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

An online agency says it’s offering its customers a kind of ‘fall-through insurance’ after over 100 deals collapsed between mid-March and...

A new agency called Eazy Agent has launched - it’s another online operation, this time with a starting price of £249. For...

A digital resource hub for estate agents claims to shorten transaction times. Sort Move, which has been operating since late 2019,...

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

House raffles and similar competitions have become mired in controversy in recent years, thanks to some of them failing to abide by...

The Guild of Property Professionals is relaunching its online auction brand - Guild Auctions - even though it has already successfully...

“Many hands make light work” – Does John Heywood’s old English proverb from the 1300s apply to modern approaches on how...

HM Land Registry is now accepting witnessed electronic signatures on documents for the  transfer of ownership of property, the creation of...

As expected within the property industry, the Chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday in his Summer Statement. This now means that...

Purplebricks has changed the wording of an advertisement on its website after a watchdog stepped in following a complaint. According to the...

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...

A property law firm is calling on the government to backdate the stamp duty holiday to include those buyers who completed...

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...

There’s no doubt that Covid-19 has had a huge impact on the UK’s property market, after hundreds of thousands of house...

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

It’s a tough time for agents and our stories show a disturbingly high number of  branches closing - but there are...

In the first of a series of articles, Emma Vigus, managing director of mio, the estate agent sales progression platform, explores the...

Propertymark is calling in the government for agents to be trained in the use of software operating the Unique Property Reference...

Businesses across all sectors have struggled to adapt to the changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. One group that have bucked...

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

A company promoting a Blockchain platform with promises to speed up the buying and selling process claims the pandemic has proved...

Imagine a Zoom call where ten people are discussing the same topic, but everyone speaks a different language and has a...

Tuesday mornings at 6am is usually my time to review all the latest PropTech news. This fires off ideas for my...

As we emerge from lockdown, quickly progressing sales to completion is vital to replace lost commission income.  What role can mio...

A working party of property professionals is being set up to look at whether and how property logbooks could help speed...

Typical house prices in England and Wales are set to fall over the rest of summer according to home moving service...

There’s no doubt we’re in a less-than-rosy phase of the property cycle. This, however, is not another doom and gloom piece:...

A senior property lawyer is to set up a franchise agency which he describes as embracing the best of the High...

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

A well-known saying in estate agency is that first-time buyers are the sellers of the future. If we believe this to...

Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week, and there is a great deal of positive things to be said about a...

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

The number of full property details viewed on Rightmove - a key indicator of market health - is already stronger than...

A free to list portal has blasted Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket for using agents' data to boost their profits.  Christopher May, chief...

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

Countrywide has added its weight to the campaign asking the government to allow agents to get back to work - and...

A study by Rightmove suggests that 94 per cent of buyers and sellers currently in the market are determined to go...

Buying and selling a house is often referenced as being one of the most stressful life experiences that we can go...

NAEA Propertymark has today launched a campaign for the government to introduce what it calls a Property Sector Support Package. This would...

Conveyancing search provider Searchflow has amended its website after an intervention by the Advertising Standards Authority. A claim on the site stated:...

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...

A PropTech firm is reporting a surge in demand for its remote ID verification software products during the virus lockdown. The software,...

Two agents have quit Rightmove and taken to social media to give their reasons. One is the 12-branch Andrew Craig agency which...

Based on our historical data over twenty years of nationwide operation and a survey conducted in partnership with YouGov, we estimate...

Welcome to the latest edition of our daily service dedicated to advice and guidance on how agents can best cope with...

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

Hello, and we trust you had as good a weekend as possible in these difficult circumstances.  As we start a new week...

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

The Law Society says there is still some possibility that those home movers scheduled to complete in the near future might...

New research of the buying habits of first-time buyers in the UK we’ve undertaken here at reallymoving.com shows that Shared Ownership...

Estate Agent Today is launching a daily service to help agents facing the Coronavirus threat. This is where you’ll find news, advice...

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

In the last few Natters I’ve focused on the slow death of local newspaper advertising, and how many agents are now...

Trials of reservation agreements for buyers and sellers have been delayed until the late spring. Statements last year from the Ministry of Housing, Communities...

Purplebricks and Countrywide have each recently claimed to be the biggest agency group in the UK but now Connells says that...

A conveyancing firm has launched what it claims to be one of the first ever apps for vendors and buyers in...

It’s been revealed that the branch closure programme by Your Move and Reeds Rains last year resulted in 460 lost jobs...

Agents now have only seven days to complete a referral fees survey, announced late on Friday by Trading Standards and The...

The National Trading Standards Estate & Letting Agency Team and The Property Ombudsman have launched an urgent survey to assess awareness...

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...

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

Independent agents in a fast-growing trade body are to be given the opportunity to secure exclusivity on land deals and new...

The group charged with pioneering Reservation Agreements in the house buying process admits both the industry and the public are split...

The increasing demand for information on Japanese Knotweed during the house buying process is emphasising the need for householders to pay...

In the field of conveyancing, there’s a new dynamic at play. And that dynamic is customer-driven and customer-focused, using digital technology...

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,...

HM Land Registry appears to be making painfully slow progress on digitising land charge search data - contrary to its earlier...

A digital platform claims its taken “a massive step” towards speeding up property sales with what it says is the first...

The typical house move in 2019 turned out to be just nine miles - and large numbers of buyers moved within...

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...