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Three of the highest profile industry suppliers and house moving services have given government a four-step plan to restart the housing...

The coming week’s stories in the mainstream media - inevitably focused on Coronavirus - will be dominated by two things. Firstly there...

A major consumer survey of existing home owners and potential movers has resulted in a plea to government to allow house...

The government of one part of the British Isles has produced guidelines for removal firms. Until now, house moving in an era...

The government has at last issued extensive advice on home moving and the activities of estate agents during the continuing Coronavirus crisis. This...

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The head of a firm that has been creating digital property log books for well over a decade says the house-moving...

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

The hugely-respected Phil Spencer is to write a regular column for the industry on Estate Agent Today under the auspices of...

HM Land Registry appears to be making painfully slow progress on digitising land charge search data - contrary to its earlier...

The typical house move in 2019 turned out to be just nine miles - and large numbers of buyers moved within...

A new Home Survey Standard is being launched today in a bid to improve and speed up the house moving process. The...

A new league table of High Street agents’ charges published over the weekend reveals the locations where agents charge an average...

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

The typical estate agency fee paid by a seller has actually fallen one per cent in the past year according to...

This is the busiest week of the year for house moves, with the single busiest day being Friday according to a...

Homeowners will be able to extend properties more easily instead of moving home. In a surprise announcement this morning - less than...

Half of first time buyers say they made expensive mistakes during their process of purchasing their home, with mortgage brokers, removal...

An annual study of transaction charges shows that house moving costs are now at a record average high of almost £10,000...

Hard-pressed buyers who try to minimise house moving costs by doing their own conveyancing have been warned of the disastrous consequences...

A digital conveyancing platform says a lack of transparency in the house moving process - particularly regarding legal costs - is...

A call has gone out for conveyancers to have all monies - including mortgage funds - in place the day before...

Some conveyancers must publish some price and service information on their websites and in other media from December 6, according to...

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

Buyers spent £9.7 billion on moving house in 2017 with the average individual move costing £9,580 according to comparison website Compare...

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

A survey released this morning shows that estate agents’ fees have risen only four per cent in real terms since 2007...

Some 62 per cent of current home owners feel that moving house has become more difficult over the past 10 years...

A company supplying the conveyancing industry claims that new research reveals 55 per cent of home-movers are frustrated by a lack...

The HM Land Registry has revealed more details of long-term plans to improve and speed up conveyancing processes in a five...

A survey suggests that over 10 per cent of existing homeowners have been deterred from selling thanks to the recent interest rate...

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...

Pressure is continuing to build on the government to reform stamp duty in next month’s Budget. Firstly a group of senior financial...

Another senior industry analyst says the time is fast approaching for Rightmove to either shift its focus to take account of...

The Conveyancing Association wants the creation of a ‘log book’ and ‘Home Reports’ for each home on sale - reminiscent in...

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

The Conveyancing Association has revised its wish-list of reforms to, in its words, “ensure fewer delays, a less costly process, and...

Leaseholds Solution - the company behind the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners - says it wants recent proposals to modernise the...

The Conveyancers' Association has called for sweeping changes to the house buying and moving system to create a "more certain and...

A new survey of over 1,350 homeowners across the UK shows that a large number regard the conveyancing process as too...