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The two main political parties have squared up to each other over the issue of increasing council tax on second homes...

Purplebricks has released more details of expansion plans to recruit hundreds of additional Local Property Experts. The recruitment drive was launched yesterday...

An organisation that calls itself the Cornish Republican Army - and which has claimed responsibility for starting a fire in one...

The National Association of Estate Agents says its election for a new vice president is to go ahead as scheduled despite...

The recent rise in consumer complaints against sales and letting agents suggests that there is a general lack of trust and...

Two more local referendums have, as expected, agreed neighbourhood plans which ban the sale of new-build homes to anyone other than...

Residents in two parts of Cornwall will vote tomorrow on whether to join the holiday resort of St Ives in banning...

The south’s seaside resorts are stealing the headlines for all the wrong reasons and at the heart of the troublesome issue...

Devon & Cornwall police are appealing for information after an estate agents in the small town of Ashburton had its windows...

Experts in Property, a network of independent agencies with 80 offices across the west country, has secured a new affiliate to...

OnTheMarket is to advertise across 40 channels this month, in the build up to its second anniversary at the end of January. The...

The government’s blizzard of New Year announcements about new homes has received a distinctly frosty welcome from many within the property...

New software has been devised which can allow users to identify individual properties that have been ‘portal juggled’ - de-listed and...

The result of a referendum in a tourist hotspot seeking a ban on the sale of new-build flats and houses to...

Strutt & Parker says it has achieved record annual sales figures from its latest National Open House day on October 8. It says...

Auction rooms across the UK are filled with people looking to buy property, from bargain hunters to seasoned investors, ensuring that...

A key decision that may have far-reaching implications for the sale of holiday homes has been delayed by a High Court...

Next week sees a court case which will decide whether there will have to be a re-run of the ‘second homes...

The network of independent estate agents known as the Property Sharing Experts has become the Experts in Property. The change of name...

Knight Frank is warning that it will “take time” for the three per cent stamp duty surcharge to be absorbed into...

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

There is likely to be an October court date set for a judicial review into a ban on new-build houses and...

A report says agents in the Cornish holiday home haven of St Ives admit the local market has been hit by...

An estate agency chief operating in an area where there are high levels of holiday home ownership has stood up for...

A judicial review into the process surrounding the controversial 'second homes referendum' in St Ives means the result could, in theory,...

A Conservative MP is to raise the portal juggling controversy in the House of Commons. Derek Thomas, MP for St Ives in...

The agent who last year wrote a controversial ‘open letter’ about OnTheMarket has now received a letter demanding she pay alleged...

Respected westcountry estate agent Chris Wood is to offer consultancy and training courses through new industry training group Agency Mentors. Wood, who...

Hybrid agency Purplebricks has launched a recruitment drive for what it calls ‘local property experts’ in 17 parts of the country...

Estate agents with a difference, a twist, a unique selling point, whatever you want to call it, seem to be becoming...

An estate agency in Cornwall has opened on the site of a former filling station and allows people to drive up,...

Property Sharing Experts, which says it is the largest network of independent estate agencies in the south west of England, has...

OnTheMarket says there is no delay with its plans to list member agents’ overseas properties for sale, but still cannot reveal...

My suspicion in my December Industry Views column that the Chancellor, George Osborne, holds certain types of property owners in contempt...

The estate agent who last week sent an open letter to OnTheMarket, saying it had lost her both business and money,...

Zoopla says it will later this week give an update on the number of agents it now has as members -...

Poldark, a period drama recently on the BBC, has inspired a new trend dubbed the 'Poldark Effect'.  Rather than an increase in...

The Liberal Democrats want local authorities to have the power to charge 200 per cent council tax on second homes. Party leader...