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Stubbornly high house prices and concerns over leasehold-related charges top the list of worries amongst the public about the housing market. That’s...

Estate agent licensing will reduce competition, make buying and selling homes more expensive, and add another layer of red tape to...

As the estate agency business in England moves towards being more robust with professional qualifications and higher standards being introduced, there...

A central London buying agent says she was once offered a bribe by an estate agent to try to persuade a...

The government has announced further measures which will, in its words, “professionalise” house buying and the estate agency business. In yet another Sunday...

A critic of the conveyancing process has accused a law firm’s charge of £95 for “exchange and completion within five working...

“Are we there yet?” In the same way that these words can drive you to distraction (any parent who has endured the...

A law firm says the problems with housing transactions lie not with issues like fall-throughs but with “people’s general lack of...

PropTech companies Gazeal and GetMeMoving have teamed up in a partnership which they claim goes some way to meeting the government’s...

Online agency Settled is introducing a deposit scheme which it claims will assist sellers and buyers reach completion faster - and...

Some 12 per cent of transactions in England and Wales so far this year have been subject to gazumping, being sold...

Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has launched a consultation on proposals to reform the house buying...

The government should take a close look at gazundering as well as gazumping in its review of the house sales process,...

The Conveyancing Association says some of its members are piloting HIPs-style Digital Home Reports in a bid to reduce fall-throughs and...

Conveyancers and the speed of local council searches have come in for criticism as details have emerged of the government’s consultation...

There has been a wide range of views from trade bodies and individual agents on the government’s surprise ‘call for evidence’...

The government has launched a consultation this weekend calling for evidence on how to make the home buying process “cheaper, faster...

The agent behind a new online service covering off-market homes in part of prime central London says his service will expand...

  You’ll see a lot of 10th anniversary stories in the property industry and consumer media in the coming days: early August...

The popularity of property auctions in the UK has increased enormously in recent years, supported by popular TV shows such as...

A ‘disrupter’ estate agent says the English housing market operates in a way that is far less efficient than Scotland’s -...

The guys at Which? are at it again, all over estate agents like a rash for “over valuing” properties so they...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a new survey suggests the proportion of London buyers who have lost out on a purchase because of gazumping...

No longer just a domain for investors, developers and property traders, the auction room is now the preferred option of buying...

With an anticipated “Call for Evidence” from the Dept of Business Innovation & Skills looking into the home-buying experience ETSOS is...

Nearly three quarters of people who have sold or bought a property deem it more stressful than having a child or...

In this business you get used to dealing with regular customer and third-party feedback, input, and (occasionally) complaints.  Much like the agency market...

The government is staying tight-lipped about it for the moment but there may be a major shake-up in house buying on...

We’re all familiar with 'gazumping' – most us have been 'gazumped' or indeed been the perpetrators of this practice, for it...

The number of buyers being gazumped has fallen by 40% since October 2014, according to online estate agent eMoov. The agency surveyed...

In my recent article, ‘Is Gazeal for Real?’ I reported on the imminent launch of this new product that claimed it...