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The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has arranged a new pilot scheme for a group of lawyers and conveyancers to...

UK property professionals should look to Norway when assessing how to improve the home buying process, a housing minister has claimed. Speaking...

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

The Labour Party has announced it will be hosting an emergency mortgage summit this week. The summit, happening in London tomorrow, is...

When it comes to the usage, and benefits of, providing upfront material information to all those involved in the home buying...

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

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...

Collaborative Conveyancing has won an Innovate UK grant in partnership with the Hartree Centre research facility and completed a fundraising round...

Surveying is traditionally a male-dominated profession, and many women who have worked in the profession for many years report that at...

Zoopla chief executive Charlie Bryant has revealed aspirations for the portal to play a key role in the home buying process. Speaking...

First-time buyers have admitted to feeling overwhelmed or scared to talk to estate agents about the homebuying process. A study of 2,000...

A government aim to improve the home buying process by making Local Land Charge search results instantly available is well underway,...

The OneDome group websites - OneDome itself and nethouseprices - are launching their largest ever advertising campaign. It will target buyers and...

PropTech has seen a surge in uptake over the last few years for several reasons – be it the Covid-19 pandemic...

A prominent law expert is claiming that a high profile case of property fraud, reported earlier this week, involved a “devastating...

The right technology can reassure agents that transactions will complete on time - vital to retaining business following the end of the...

A video interview claims to spill the beans on how sales progression can be accelerated by three to four weeks. Estate agent...

A new Home Buyer App has been launched by the Mortgage Advice Bureau in a bid to educate first time buyers...

The growth of the internet and technology has transformed virtually every aspect of our lives, including how we approach the property...

The Chancellor’s recent announcement that the stamp duty holiday would be extended for another three months was undoubtedly great news for...

The cross-sector group looking at reforming the sales process has agreed a new pledge which it says introduces greater transparency for...

The Residential Property Surveyors’ Association appears to be taking on the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in a battle for authority...

It’s back to work today for England’s estate agents and the housing market - but it’s the start of a new...

The government is being urged to allow estate and lettings agents to return to work as soon as possible when the...

More than 18 months on from the acquisition of ZPG for £2.2 billion by Silver Lake Partners, a US private equity...

Reapit has joined a consortium attempting to make the long-anticipated end-to-end digital home buying process a reality. It’s joined the IPN Consortium,...

Zoopla has this afternoon announced a massive growth programme for 2020 with 120 new staff and expansion in most of its...

Case study: Connells reaping the time-saving benefits of new sales and communication tool Since adopting mio in September 2018, Josh Lally, Senior...

The reform of the buying process is to take centre stage at a special conference called Bold Legal LIVE! taking place...

A leasehold reform campaigner says government proposals risk creating a two-tier market and do nothing to assist leaseholders already hit by...

Thinking about the state of communication across residential property chains is enough to induce a severe migraine. We work in a world...

Conveyancing regularly adds unnecessary and costly delays to the home buying process and improvement could be far quicker than any efforts...

It seems a lifetime ago but in fact we’re approaching just the first anniversary since the government triggered its Call for...

Out and about recently, I got to thinking: how often do I actually have the call for cash anymore? Or, for...

Reapit has teamed up with a new tool called mio, which is promising “a smarter way to manage the home buying...

As housing market stakeholders we’ve all had a month or so to try and digest the government’s own response to its...

As the world becomes ever more digital and people increasingly look to technology to provide convenient solutions to sometimes complex problems,...

The Society of Licensed Conveyancers says it is worried that HM Land Registry’s decision to publish details of apparent errors in...

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

The political ebb and flow continues - seemingly with all the subtlety of a Boris Johnson rugby tackle on a 10-year...

A new PropTech venture aims to do what the ill-fated Veyo system failed to achieve -  creating an online platform bringing...

The detailed paperwork accompanying the Queen’s Speech includes the Conservative party manifesto pledge to streamline house buying - but gives no...

A sales progression tool claims to have reduced the average transaction time for a property from around 94 days to around...

The Society of Licensed Conveyancers has become the latest body to call for the scrapping of stamp duty to give the...

The Conveyancing Association is setting up a working group to consider how to increase transparency, cut unnecessary delays and costs, and...