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A variety of charities have received support from the property industry this week. If there are charitable endeavours you think the rest...

Whether we’re selling properties, managing buildings, servicing heavy goods vehicles or flogging widgets, we’re all operating in a digital world. This is...

If you want to hear of a tale for our industry’s times - featuring housing shortages, planning disputes, rampant  inflation and...

Only two out of five UK adults are aware of what conveyancing is, while the number for those who are already...

Propertymark updates Property Information QuestionnairePropertymark has updated its Property Information Questionnaire (PIQ) in light of the latest part B and C...

Property professionals have called for the Government to allocate its promised £3m towards improving the home buying and selling process to...

Most agents agree that providing upfront information at the very start of the homebuying process would improve the buying and selling...

After years of saving, hard work, and market watching, being able to view and make an offer on a property is...

Following the release of Material Information Parts B & C, iamproperty’s Product Manager, Tania Bonesi, shares insights on how Estate Agents...

HOP (the Home Owner’s Passport) has released its upgraded material information report to support agents with Trading Standards compliance. The list of...

A new service has launched to provide buyers of prime and super-prime residential properties with an appraisal of the property’s suitability,...

Property sales fell for the fourth consecutive month in December and ended the year at 1.02m, HMRC data suggests. The latest property...

The Able Agent has launched the first ever general course about the structure of property – aimed at all types of...

Winkworth's network completed sales for the year fell by some 19% in 2023, the agency franchise brand has revealed but it...

The Government recently consulted upon a revised approach to local plans. Throughout the consultation document, frequent use is made of the...

It was actor Charlies Sheen who said: ‘I have one speed. I have one gear. Go!’ The same might not be said...

Estate agents spend almost half their working day chasing or being chased for issues as a new report highlights concerns about...

Estate agents are being reminded of their anti-money laundering (AML) responsibilities. It comes after HMRC has seen a rise in new applications...

The Propertymark Trust is offering grants to agents and family members affect by Storm Ciaran. The Met Office has issued almost 200...

Inheritance Tax receipts for April to September 2023 have soared to £3.9 billion, some £0.4 billion higher than the same period...

A conveyancing services proptech firm claims to have sped up transactions and reduced fall-throughs in just its first 18 months of...

After years - indeed a decade - of anti-rental sector policy and rhetoric it’s difficult not to see recent days as...

Propertymark has backed delays to the Government’s net zero policies, claiming the shift to more sustainable and environmentally friendly homes should...

As an Estate Agent it’s important to be able to interpret and understand the information that a Title Deed document presents...

The Government is facing calls to resurrect the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme. The housing support scheme, which provided a Government-backed...

The end of a tenancy can be busy and stressful. As the letting agent, you’ll have many plates spinning to move...

The property transaction in England and Wales is a notoriously slow and fraught process, taking typically 150 days to complete, with...

UK homebuyers have expressed support for more digital tools to reduce the administrative burden of purchasing a property yet few have...

It’s the start of what promises - perhaps ‘threatens’ is a better word - to be a challenging second half of...

Almost two-thirds of home sellers who have sold a home within the past year experienced delays when doing so, research reveals. A...

Fortune favours the brave, as the saying goes. So, when you consider how upfront material information can and does make the...

Ever taken on a property where the sale has got tangled up in problems arising from the title register? It’s a...

At the recent Home Buying & Selling Group UFI Roadshow in London, it was gratifying to note that panel members and...

Rightmove has been named as the most effective portal for driving leads but there is a sense of frustration about fake...

Agency technology company the nurtur.group has launched the first phase its Automated Referral System, to help agents in the Fine &...

The Building Safety Act will cause further delays to the home moving process, a senior industry executive has warned. Rob Hailstone, chief...

The Government is not taking any responsibility for the thousands of people that have had spray foam installed by Green Homes...

Online agents and outsourced conveyancing panels have been cited as factors delaying property sales in the UK. A trade body has warned...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has been slammed for “unhelpful” comments about abolishing leasehold after it emerged that there may not be...

A coalition of businesses from across the property industry have united to call on the Government to do more to speed-up...

Upfront material information is now firmly on the property industry’s radar, with Trading Standards CPR regulations expected to move towards disclosing...

The Bank of England last week announced the completion of Project Meridian, a digital synchronised settlement prototype that aims to digitise...

Yes it should….and we’re getting closer. Where there’s no chain involved, here at AVRillo, we can be ready to exchange contracts in...

Landlords are now quite accustomed to the challenges of operating in a market where they are often perceived as the antagonist...

According to the recent industry research report ‘Back to the Future’ from tmgroup, mio and CDS 40% of property transaction delays...

As is generally the case, we didn’t start out with solutions, we started with questions…. two, actually. The first was, ‘Why does...

Conveyancers are warning that this week’s Land Registry strikes could have a knock-on effect on property sales once staff return to...

The Connells Group has said it remains optimistic about the year ahead after reporting falling profits and a decline in exchanges...

The property industry's self-destructive, point-scoring way of working just doesn’t cut it. When low stock means low cash flow low, agents and...

Award-winning sales progression platform mio has uncovered the home moving experiences of nearly 200 movers and evaluated what this means for...

A senior Land Registry executive has insisted he wasn’t blaming conveyancers for transactions delays following a controversial blog last month that...

Agents and property professionals are spreading plenty of charitable love ahead of Valentine's Day. See some of the inspirational examples below. Whatever the...

With the property market showing signs of a slow-down and the economic outlook rather uncertain, we spoke to Lucy Noonan, founder...

FCS Compliance and the National Crime Agency (NCA) have joined forces to present the first Rightmove anti-money laundering (AML) webinar of...

Most letting agents are already carrying out inspections for check-in and check-out reports (hopefully). Some are going further and conducting interim...

The “red tape ridden” system of buying a home is to blame for transaction delays more than individual conveyancers, agents or...

Consumer demand for auction can no longer be ignored. Month after month this alternative method of sale sees increased uptake as...

Conveyancers are being urged to conduct better “quality control” on documents filed to the Land Registry after the body revealed ‘basic...

As economic signs increasingly point to a contraction in the property market, competition for new business will inevitably heat up. But...

The EWS1 bottleneck familiar to the new-build market has started spilling into the secondhand homes market, an agent claims. New-build homeowners have...

The Land Registry has said it anticipates ‘minimal disruption’ if a civil service strike goes ahead. Civil servants across 126 public sector...

Estate agents could face new transaction delays after the Land Registry and its Scottish equivalent were among Government departments and civil...

Remote working is contributing to transaction delays, a conveyancing veteran has warned. Peter Ambrose, managing director of conveyancing specialists The Partnership, has...

The sales progression function is what binds the whole property transaction together and the importance of effective sales progression in the...

With UK interest rates on the rise, following the mini-Budget announcement (now since almost entirely reversed), and several lenders pulling mortgage...

For the third year running, mio, tmgroup and Conveyancing Data Services (CDS) are inviting property professionals to share their successes and...

A buyers’ market, and a more challenging time for buyers and sellers, could be on the cards as a result of...

Smoove has announced the full market rollout of its digital onboarding platform, Smoove Start. The conveyancing software provider’s latest tool provides a...

Agents and property professionals have backed the creation of Investment Zones to help boost housebuilding but have called for more clarity...

First-time buyers are set to wait up to two years longer to get on the property ladder due to the cost...

New Prime Minister Liz Truss has been urged to consider a tax overhaul to boost property supply. There have been plenty of...

The last minute Bank Holiday for the Queen’s funeral on Monday has created some logistical issues for the property market. A legal...

Property professionals have been pondering the impact of the sudden Bank Holiday scheduled next Monday for the Queen’s state funeral. It creates...

A Somerset-based estate agency director has come up with his own approach to clear a backlog of probate or ‘Red Book’...

Hamptons is anticipating an 12% drop in property transactions across Great Britain next year as interest rate rises and the cost of...

In a welcome return to a favourite series of mine - and a timely one at that, given the current back...

The check-out report is a critical point in the tenancy and has the power to make the moving-out process run smoothly...

Last week was quite a week for major trading updates, with four of the market’s biggest players announcing either half-year or...

Another piece about conveyancing? Seems like it's been a bit of free-for-all in the last couple of weeks on the woes...

You may be thinking that cost and hassle outweighs the benefits of outsourcing, but read on, you may be surprised! The last...

Stipendium, the platform that simplifies life’s complex events, has compiled a guide to submitting an offer and exchanging contracts, to help buyers...

The ongoing debate about how to boost agent and conveyancer relations, and improve the homebuying system for all, continues to rage,...

As the mass student exodus from rented accommodation begins throughout the UK, Richard Abbots of Inventory Hive offers advice on how...

Purplebricks has pushed back the publication of its annual accounts. The online agent’s full year results were due to be published on...

There have been many articles about ‘digitising upfront information’, following the publication of DLUHC’s Levelling-Up white paper and National Trading Standards...

In this article, Kristian Stott, Head of New Business at iamproperty, analyses the digital revolution in our lives and in property and why...

First-time buyers are now facing up to a nine-year wait to save enough of a deposit to get on the property...

Estate agents are being urged to reassess their fee structure and not be afraid to reflect the time and level of...

After years of delays and upheaval, the Renters' Reform Bill finally appears to be back on the agenda, in an effort...

From the beginning of April, long-awaited rules from the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) came into effect....

Following a series of unexplained delays, Helena Marston has now finally been confirmed as the new chief executive of beleaguered agency...

Estate agents and conveyancers have agreed on better working relationships at the first collaborative event between the two professions. There has been...

In July 2020, two leading lettings technology disruptors - Vouch and Goodlord - announced that they were going into partnership. Now,...

A survey of 700 borrowers by a high net worth lender suggest almost four out of 10 have lost a mortgage...

Until a few years ago, you would have been forgiven for not knowing who or what Coadjute was. But the company, founded...

A bid to regulate second home ownership in part of the UK through changes to planning policy will add complexity and...

Fall throughs remain a significant problem with transaction collapses costing buyers and sellers a wasted £880m in 2021 according to new...

Property checks can be the bane of a letting agent’s life if left unchecked. Throw in the winter weather, and you’ve...

A trading statement this morning confirms a large revenue rise for LSL Property Services. Group revenue increased by around 23 per cent last...

Will he stay or will he go? You don’t need me to say who ‘he’ is - it’s the only story...