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For an unregulated industry, agents have an awful lot of regulations to deal with. For example, there’s the mandatory membership of a...

There has been criticism of the new Residential Development Tax, levied to fund remedial work on dangerous cladding on high rise blocks. The tax...

Some two thirds of agents and other property professionals who have worked alone have suffered an incident endangering their safety, according to...

Agents are being contacted by local council officers to check how Covid-safe their operations are.  Paul Offley, compliance officer for The Guild,...

Taking photographs or video footage during a routine property inspection can be a contentious subject. While landlords have every right to...

Agents are to be told this week that employees can drop face masks, social distancing and other workplace measures put in...

The government has thrown its weight behind the concept of Unique Property Reference Numbers as a way of speeding up transactions. UPRNs...

The Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017 exposed the dangers of inflammable cladding on residential tower blocks, and what has come...

Telephone and chat support service Moneypenny has outlined a strategy to help agents avoid burn out. The service argues that working throughout...

On 28 April 2021, Fixflo ran the first in a series of quarterly legal update webinars with David Smith, Partner at...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Jack Reid Founding Director of Orlando Reid  In your experience,...

Licensing of the short-term lets sector in Scotland was due to be introduced next month. However, it was recently announced that...

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we evaluate our lives and, looking more specifically at the property market, it...

Countrywide and Foxtons have thrown their weight behind an idea to identify every single UK residential property with a unique number. The...

Propertymark has told the government that it needs to introduce overarching regulation of agents now, because existing piecemeal provisions are unmanageable...

The Homes Act requires landlords to consider whether their tenants' indoor air is safe. Five key air contaminants are listed in...

The housing market is to remain open in the four week lockdown in England. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government...

Lettings agents, property managers and landlords should all be aware of the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018. The Act...

In recent years, the extent and role of the private rented sector (PRS) in the housing market has seen significant changes. The...

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the way every industry operates and the property sector is no exception. Following an enforced seven-week...

Propertymark has teamed up with an employment and health and safety specialist to establish a service for member agents with Coronavirus-related...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has encouraged people to complain if they are unhappy about working conditions and thousands of complaints...

With the high street open again, and the Chancellor’s temporary stamp duty holiday helping to stimulate the market, estate and letting...

Agents are being advised to operate an appointments-only system if they have offices with only one person on duty during the...

Conferences, events and awards dinners are a hugely important part of the property calendar, bringing the great and the good of...

Propertymark is calling in the government for agents to be trained in the use of software operating the Unique Property Reference...

Knight Frank has merged two of its existing divisions to form a new Private Residence Consultancy team - and the new...

The Covid-19 crisis has forced the UK property industry to rethink the way it operates. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the...

NAEA Propertymark is advising agents to continue measures to allow them to operate if a second wave of Coronavirus hits later...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

** This Bank Holiday Monday both Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today look at how agencies have modified offices and protocols...

It’s a Bank Holiday weekend and if you’re taking time off we hope you and your families enjoy a well-earned break. We’ll...

The agency at the heart of a fierce row over staff safety in the lockdown says it's now insisting local managers...

Rightmove’s shareholders appear to have been generally unmoved by the string of protests against the portal in recent weeks. At the portal’s...

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

Allsop has staged its first principal residential auction entirely online, and has raised £28m. Some 76 per cent of all lots offered...

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

Former housing minister Alok Sharma has revealed new measures to allow agencies and other businesses to avoid insolvency during the virus...

The property management industry is evolving at a rapid pace, thanks almost entirely to the rise in PropTech. Hundreds, if not thousands...

“There won’t be a single home but millions of different homes”, is one quote.  “There will be an end to gadgets”, is...

The National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

A survey suggests that 15 per cent of people who work in the real estate sector feel unsafe at work. This figure...

Hello and welcome to your regular Monday PJT, the essential guide to who’s moving where in our industry. Everyone mentioned here got...

With Boris Johnson winning the Conservative leadership election and becoming Prime Minister, he has spent his first few days in office...

Hello and welcome to this latest edition of PJT, your regular weekly column giving all the key appointments news in the...

An outspoken estate agent has given the government a clear message - get off our backs , ease the red tape...

Landlords are being urged to step up and ensure that all rented properties and accommodation meet recent laws relating to carbon...

The UK is home to four million leasehold properties in private ownership, according to government figures. The majority of which require...

Stephanie Slater died last week, aged 50. Whilst she died from cancer (tragically, only 11 days after diagnosis), it’s the events...

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

The government has launched an official consultation process on a package of measures to crack down on what it calls ‘rogue...

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...

Suzy Lamplugh was just 25 years old when she disappeared whilst working as an estate agent in London in 1986. She’d...

The huge rush to acquire buy-to-let property in the first quarter of the year ahead of the stamp duty change deadline...

With a raft of new legislation introduced recently now will be the ideal time to think about whether staff are up...