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A webinar this week is set to see the release of more details of changes to property listings being demanded by...

Identity verification service Credas claims the UK sits second in the list of global money laundering hotspots. The amount laundered - much...

Welcome to 2022 and the first Agents Do Charity of the New Year. We’re all learning to live with Covid a little...

A well known westcountry estate agent has died just ahead of what would have been his 50th year with the same...

The Propertymark Qualifications Awards annual ceremony taking place early next month have revealed their shortlist. There is a total of nine Awards...

It’s Remembrance weekend, and on Sunday at least we fall silent to honour those who gave so much for many generations. When...

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

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

Two of Britain’s largest house builders have reacted sharply to calls by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick and the Competition and Markets...

A cyber-attack on a London council has caused some transactions to fall through and others to be significantly delayed. The attack occurred...

Free-to-list portal group OneDome claims 425 estate agency branches joined its listing services last month,  OneDome Group operates two portals, OneDome and...

The soon-to-launch Boomin portal has signed up a national firm and now claims to have recruited 40 per cent of the...

A new survey reveals the uphill struggle first time buyers appear to be having in securing a mortgage. A study of 1,000...

Boomin, the still-to-launch portal created by the founders of Purplebricks, has named another 10 founding member agencies. Like the initial 10 they...

A league table drawn up by a quick buy property firm claims that some estate agents' average commission has hit 2.32 per...

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

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

Across the UK and Europe, lockdown measures are changing and the markets are kicking back into life as we grow accustomed...

An American realtor who once predicted his company would have 5,000 UK estate agents working under its banner is now saying...

Purplebricks is selling its Canadian business. The sale comes little over a year after the troubled agency closed both its failed Australian and...

Over the last few years, there have been a number of high-profile court cases in which renters took action against letting...

One of the few agents anywhere in the British Isles who has returned to something like normal working has revealed new...

The last five years have seen unprecedented changes to the property market and agents and their clients have never faced such...

In this time of economic uncertainty, more and more people are becoming unwilling to leave their homes, yet you and your...

It’s time to draw a line in the sand and condemn our rival portals for their current charging structure. Little will...

The Trading Standards report on the future of referral fees is almost completed and will be sent to government next week. However, James...

The Competition and Markets Authority has released a 135 page document giving explicit details of its latest agency cartel investigation. This includes...

Hello and welcome to the latest PJT, your weekly opportunity to catch up on who’s moving where and why across our...

The PropTech era is changing the way in which employees decide where they are going to work. As CBRE has discovered in...

The review website Trustpilot is to make it easier for the public to see whether companies have tried to stop complaints...

The Competitions and Markets Authority says the result of its latest probe into estate agencies’ possible infringement of the Competition Act...

Small print in the Countrywide rescue plan announced yesterday spells out in stark terms what could happen if the company’s bid...

A disciplinary investigation by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has blown the lid on the infamous fee-fixing cartel scandal involving estate...

The Advertising Standards Authority says its compliance team is considering its next steps following the refusal of estate agency PDQ Estates...

Some of Britain’s top property experts say bureaucracy, lack of cooperation and a dwindling number of smaller builders are the main...

Cluttons - which a year ago was bought out of pre-pack administration by a so-called ‘turnaround’ business, RCapital - has now...

Outsourced viewing operator Viewber is expanding its offer to agents by forming what it calls “a close technical cooperation” with keyholding...

The last of the leading agency analysts and business consultancies have now given their predictions for the UK housing market in...

Employment tribunal fees could soon become extinct, after the Supreme Court ruled they were an obstacle to the ‘access of justice’.  Once...

The Competition and Markets Authority has for the first time published details of the findings against a group of six estate...

Let’s be honest - few people saw this coming. The 89 to 11 per cent majority amongst Agents’ Mutual members for...

You may have heard that Airbnb and property management company, Lavanda has closed a £1 million angel investment round.  Backers include Purplebricks...

The chief economist of Price Waterhouse Coopers says that although by some measures the London housing market looks ripe for a...

The industry’s three government-approved redress schemes have this week issued an updated version of their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The MOU is...

The best estate and letting agents in the UK were recognised at the prestigious ESTAS luncheon and ceremony, which was held...

The estate agency which was fined £200,000 after a prospective house buyer fell 30 feet into a well during a viewing...

Forecasts are so last year: who anticipated Bowie, Brexit or Balls for example? Quotes, on the other hand, really ARE last year...

Just a couple of weeks ago, we waited with anticipation to see what the new Chancellor, Philip Hammond, would say in...

The Conveyancing Association has revised its wish-list of reforms to, in its words, “ensure fewer delays, a less costly process, and...

The Daily Mail has calculated which of the 13 housing ministers in office before this autumn has been the most successful,...

The Advertising Standards Authority says a Market Harborough firm's leaflet claiming it had 'more sales' than any other agent earlier this...

Buy-to-let landlords may have failed in their recent legal battle against planned government tax relief changes for buy-to-let homes set to...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has met campaigners to scrap anti-buy to let measures introduced by the Cameron government in the past...

Plans for the Northern Powerhouse scheme, designed to rival London and the South East as the main driver of economic growth...

Online estate agency easyProperty has brought in a veteran psychology expert to look at the stress of buying a home -...

An estate agent has pleaded guilty to a charge of drink-driving after being found almost three times above the legal alcohol...

This week, as the title suggests, I turn my attentions to the world of deposit protection schemes. Landlords have been legally obliged...

Estate agents have been accused of flouting the rules by erecting For Sale and To Let signs despite a voluntary ban. The...

Three of the four candidates standing for the Labour leadership have effectively dismissed any possibility of reintroducing mansion tax if they...

Labour’s low-profile shadow housing minister, Roberta Blackman-Woods, has come out for Yvette Cooper - herself a former housing minister - in...

The estate agent at the centre of an Advertising Standards Authority investigation into promotional claims using Rightmove data has hailed the...

The Advertising Standards Authority has given its backing to an estate agency using Rightmove data to claim it had the most...

This publication recently reported on Russell Quirk's latest attempt to upset the establishment, this time by attacking the hallowed ground of...