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Conveyancing fees increased by around 6% last year, analysis suggests. Property Solvers’ annual research of legal practices in England and Wales has...

Agents may be regularly debating increasing their fees but property buyers and sellers are already used to paying more for conveyancing,...

Increased conveyancing fees would speed-up transaction times, it has been claimed. Iain McKenzie, chief executive of The Guild of Property Professionals suggests...

Dye & Durham says it could potentially appeal the decision by the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) to effectively disallow its acquistion...

You’re probably up to your neck at the start of a busy spring market but I’d hope there’s one thing most...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

One of the largest surveys of housing concerns amongst consumers suggests that agents fees - once a major issue - is...

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

Rightmove is undertaking an investigation into a PropTech app that has tried to list private sales on the portal. The perhaps-ironically named...

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

If you’re an estate agent and have a property that is difficult to sell or the homeowner simply needs a fast...

Even so close to the event, I don’t think anyone will be deeming 2017 as the ‘summer of love’.  The summer of...

Rising estate agency fees account for more almost half of the increase in average moving costs in the past year, according...

A number of my member firms (Bold Legal Group) have reported that, compared to three years ago, the time to get...

It’s pretty hot out there but our industry still confounds critics by doing good work for good causes.  We’ll gladly publicise your...