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You’re probably up to your neck at the start of a busy spring market but I’d hope there’s one thing most...

The overwhelming majority of buyers want the gazumping to be made illegal, a poll shows. Some 89 per cent think it’s wrong...

HM Revenue & Customs has been warned by financial experts that its latest crackdown on stamp duty abuse could make the...

The government’s Levelling Up White Paper, released today, contains an unexpected and shock commitment - to create a new 'lite' version...

Agents are losing tens of thousands of pounds each - in some cases even more - because of the volume of...

A survey suggests that an overwhelming proportion of estate agents believe the government should make the provision of upfront property information...

Estate Agent Today understands that the civil servant who has been at the heart of plans to reform the house buying...

A survey of agents suggests the majority believe the process of buying and selling residential properties will be fully digital or...

Government regulation and reform of house buying should see the process made faster and easier in 2022, it’s been predicted. Lloyd Davies - managing...

EAT readers may have seen a piece in Friday’s property section of The Times about the long-running Simplify saga, which has...

I’ve worked in financial crime for the past seven years, beginning my career as a white collar crime litigator in a law firm. I know that the...

I’ve never written the three letters ‘EPC’ more often than I have in the past week. Law changes for the private rental...

It may be the final day of August but Propertymark has first out of the blocks with advice for agents to...

The House of Commons Library has published what may be the definitive record of estate agency regulations issued in recent years...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, we have another industry big-hitter and one of the most high-profile female leaders in property...

RVU - the ZPG-owned company that already owns Zoopla and independently-run price comparison and financial services - has acquired online mortgage broker Mojo...

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

Propertymark is staging a webinar today tackling the challenging issue of conveyancing - just as the market is at its busiest...

A survey of 5,000 agents suggests the slow house selling and buying process is one of the biggest challenges facing the...

A leading conveyancing industry chief says the one factor that would help improve the slow house buying process today would be the...

The UK property market is always evolving but never as quickly as it is now. Traditional estate agents are seriously questioning...

A new property board game called Gazumped aims to rival Monopoly but reflect a much more realistic view of how the house...

One of the companies at the heart of the campaign to provide more upfront information to prospective buyers has struck a...

A conveyancing trade publication wants those involved in residential transactions to be kind to each other - especially as the stamp duty...

A leading bank says as many as one in three buyers pay too much for a property because they are afraid...

An online petition has been started by an independent estate agent seeking a radical overhaul of how homes are sold in...

While the property industry has suffered far less than other sectors during the past year, it would be short of the...

A leading conveyancing sector spokesmen says some mortgage lenders are making the current delays in the house buying process worse. Rob Hailstone,...

An alarming story has appeared in the mortgage trade press, highlighting an apparent pitfall in the house buying process that has...

The Stamp Duty Land Tax holiday has been a hot topic of conversation for many in the residential property industry –...

Logjams in the mortgage, conveyancing and removal stages of house moving mean sales are taking much longer than usual, according to...

Research by Zoopla has revealed the scale of the mistakes by and regrets for disillusioned home buyers. For large numbers of people...

It has been three months since the property market was given the green light to reopen. During this time, we have...

A new property website relying heavily on Artificial Intelligence allows sellers to by-pass estate agents and instead list directly for £14.99...

A company promoting a Blockchain platform with promises to speed up the buying and selling process claims the pandemic has proved...

Unsourced stories in a number of newspapers over the weekend - all likely to have come from government off-the-record briefings -...

Rightmove and Zoopla have been working with key figures from government and the agency and conveyancing industries on how to reform...

Logbooks about properties must be made available up-front at the point of marketing and not later in the buying process if...

The group charged with pioneering Reservation Agreements in the house buying process admits both the industry and the public are split...

The increasing demand for information on Japanese Knotweed during the house buying process is emphasising the need for householders to pay...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Emily Hawthorne, mio Account Manager for the South West of...

A law firm has spoken out about two possible problems in the government’s much-publicised idea of considering Reservation Agreements as a...

Outsourcing important business functions such as marketing, HR and IT to attract cost savings, leverage expertise and gain greater competitive advantage is...

Here’s the final part of our questioning of the three portals based on comments and queries from our readers - thanks...

A new survey suggests that an overwhelming majority of householders want a legal ban on gazumping. The result is likely to be...

Reservation Agreements are the subject of the moment in the agency industry. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is to...

There are many adjectives that can be applied to Boris Johnson, probably very few of them complimentary, but there’s one that...

A property MOT being launched by Countrywide and described as “game changing” for the house buying process will include survey and...

A study from Santander Mortgages has blown the cover on first time buyers, suggesting they know almost nothing and research very...

Our own industry’s upheaval over recent years has been no less dramatic than the turmoil at Westminster. The political earthquake has seen...

Improved communication and increased transparency throughout the buying process can manage vendors’ expectations, improve satisfaction scores and create long-term clients. That’s the...

The minister at the centre of reforms to the estate and lettings industry sector has apologised for what she calls “inappropriate...

A firm that offers a white-labelled online agency platform to traditional High Street agents has signed up a new customer. love2move was...

Just 200 conveyancing firms control over 39 per cent of the market in England and Wales, wielding significant power over customers,...

While media attention has been on Theresa May, Brexit and the Tories, chatter in the agency industry has been about what...

Reforms to the house buying process in England and Wales to bring it more into line with Scotland could slash the...

It’s clear that some agents are not fans of Trading Standards officers, described in the comments sections of the trade press...

No, this isn’t about Brexit. But as the saga of leaving the EU is likely to bring about the downfall of...

More than 800 property transactions fall through daily, which can have repercussions both practically and financially, as agents fail to get...

The founder of the Hunters franchise agency group, Kevin Hollinrake - now a Conservative MP - is the latest parliamentarian to...

Estate agents have been warned that if new guidance over referral fees is not taken seriously, they could be faced with...

Countrywide’s executive chairman and group managing director have spoken to Estate Agent Today about the impact of Brexit on the company,...

The director of strategy at the Council for Licensed Conveyancers says “the onus is very much on estate agents” to respond...

More details are emerging of the first-ever ESTAS conference for conveyancers - the Bold Legal Conference - taking place on the...

One of the country’s leading conveyancing chiefs has given his support to reforms to the house buying process. But Rob Hailstone -...

With far-reaching reforms of conveyancing and other aspects of house buying high on the government’s agenda, a trade body has revealed...

There’s been a dramatic improvement in the speed of searches being completed and returned by local authorities, the government claims. Housing minister...

In what promises to be a transformative year for conveyancing in the UK, the ESTAS is joining forces with the well-known...

Politicians and officials are studying a ‘model’ two page reservation agreement drawn up by a law firm as a possible way...

HM Land Registry’s ambitious digitisation plans continue apace with news that it is to consider Blockchain in a bid to speed...

The civil servant leading work to reform the house buying has revealed key areas of government thinking - with a ban on...

The man who is leading the government’s efforts to reform the house buying process will be one of the speaker at...

Just under one in five buyers in the past two years have suffered moving day delays, either because funds have been...

A ‘disruptor’ tech company claims that large numbers of people are dissastisfied with the conveyancing element of house moves, with many...

Purplebricks has issued a provocative response to the government’s new measures to promote a more professional and transparent house buying process.  The...

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

The body that regulates conveyancers says controversial referral fees should be disclosed earlier in the house buying process - but they...

A conveyancers’ trade body has told the government that it wants the house buying process to be modernised by having estate...

A conveyancing body says it wants the government to allocate “a small fund” in next week’s Budget to promote research into...

The government's call for evidence from agents and others in a bid to improve the house buying process has pushed some...

An influential consumer group has responded to the government’s commitment to reform the house buying process by advocating legally-binding reservation agreements...

A survey conducted by the National Association of Estate Agents reveals that 79 per cent of agents regard the current home-buying...

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,...

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 Competition and Markets Authority has released a set of recommendations on how conveyancing, and other legal services, could be made...

A gathering of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has called on the industry to unite and improve the buying and selling process...

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

The banning of letting fees levied on tenants has dominated the industry headlines in recent months but this election campaign suggests...

Conveyancers have backed a call by the Conservatives for reform of the house buying process - and says more up-front information...

A conveyancing expert is calling for sellers to complete and return their property information questionnaire to their conveyancer before there have...

The Conservatives now say they are not resuscitating Home Information Packs, despite a suggestion by a prominent former minister that they "had...

The Conservatives have this morning announced a reform of the house buying process in the party’s manifesto for the June 8...

Conveyancing is the most complained about area of law in England and Wales – accounting, on average, for nearly a quarter...

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

Online agency Settled has been described by a major national newspaper as having “halved the time it takes to sell a...

Who are you? Colin Breavington What does it say on your business card? Operations Director We hear SearchFlow is expanding next year, can you give...

Money laundering and the controversies raised by the From Russia With Cash documentary will be amongst the subjects under discussion at...