Three members of the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners take a brief look at some of the trials and tribulations awaiting...
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![Is Government Back In Love With Renting?](/upload/images/__thumbs/1%20Industry%20View%20Is%20Government%20back%20in%20love%20with%20renting%20By%20Graham%20Norwood%20.jpg/1%20Industry%20View%20Is%20Government%20back%20in%20love%20with%20renting%20By%20Graham%20Norwood%20__400x265.jpg)
After years - indeed a decade - of anti-rental sector policy and rhetoric it’s difficult not to see recent days as...
23 September 2023
From: Features
![Government urged to resurrect Help to Buy](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/2_MortgageCalculated.png)
The Government is facing calls to resurrect the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme. The housing support scheme, which provided a Government-backed...
11 September 2023
From: Breaking News
29 July 2023
From: Features
![Propertymark: ‘Use Stamp Duty to reach net zero ambitions’](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Energy%20and%20Green%20Homes/_EcoHome-400x310.png)
Propertymark has called for Stamp Duty incentives and wider funding to make homes more energy efficient. It comes as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt...
21 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Exclusive - what makes an agency industry leader tick](/upload/images/Headshots%20and%20Property%20People/DavidVotta-400x310.png)
People in prominent positions in the housing industry aren’t always perfect role models. After all, Chris Pincher was housing minister for...
09 July 2022
From: Features
![Why haven't politicians listened to our industry?](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Parliament-Night-400x310.jpg)
It’s often fashionable to criticise trade bodies and official groups, but right now I think that’s absolutely inappropriate. In well over 20...
25 June 2022
From: Features
![Leasehold reform - what do agents and conveyancers need to know?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/LeaseholdImage-2020-400x310.jpg)
You will hopefully have seen that the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 has now received its Royal Assent, meaning it...
30 April 2022
From: Features
![Phil Spencer - Agents Have Standards … So Show The Customer!](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PhilSpencer-MoveIQ-EATLAT-400x310.jpg)
For an unregulated industry, agents have an awful lot of regulations to deal with. For example, there’s the mandatory membership of a...
02 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Insider gets senior Propertymark policy position](/upload/images/Logos/NAEA-ARLA-Propertymark-400x310.jpg)
Propertymark has appointed an insider to the key role of policy adviser - effectively the position vacated last month by industry...
21 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark beefs up policy and campaigns team](/img/default/eat.png)
The policy and campaigns team at Propertymark, headed by Mark Hayward, has been expanded after what it calls “a number of...
15 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![In Conversation Today – ‘I've always believed agents should be regulated’](/img/default/eat.png)
In this week’s In Conversation Today, I am delighted to chat with Lucy Morton, Head of Residential Agency at JLL, about...
27 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark: your voice matters, make sure it’s heard](/img/default/eat.png)
In an industry which is faced with constant changes in day-to-day practices and even more so given the Covid terrain which agents...
22 May 2021
From: Features
![Lobby your MP over stamp duty holiday extension, agents told](/img/default/eat.png)
Propertymark - still reeling over two senior resignations in less than a week - says its lobbying sessions with politicians are...
22 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Has the Stamp Duty Holiday extension campaign worked?](/img/default/eat.png)
There is no scientific formula, no list of must-have elements in a successful campaign. That’s especially the case for a campaign involving...
06 February 2021
From: Features
![Stamp Duty Victory? Hint of possible 'phased' end to holiday](/img/default/eat.png)
The government is keeping everyone guessing about the stamp duty holiday but one comment by a senior minister suggests movement towards a...
02 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Here we go again! What does lockdown 3 mean for the market?](/img/default/eat.png)
Well, what a start to 2021! None of us thought things would change as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s...
23 January 2021
From: Features
![NAEA chief delays retirement to help restructure Propertymark](/img/default/eat.png)
Mark Hayward, who was scheduled to retire at the end of this month, is to stay on at NAEA Propertymark as...
02 December 2020
From: Breaking News
![Rightmove was warned for years to improve relationship with agents](/img/default/eat.png)
The leader of the Say No To Rightmove campaign has revealed to Estate Agent Today that he has lobbied the portal...
22 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Second politician named in Jenrick ‘cash for favours’ controversy](/img/default/eat.png)
Housing minister Chris Pincher has now been named in media investigations into allegations concerning his political boss, Robert Jenrick, and the...
15 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Fury over agent breaching government rules on opening to public](/img/default/eat.png)
There’s been a furious response to the agent who appears to have breached government rules by opening his branch to the...
07 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Three reasons why estate agency should be first out of lockdown](/img/default/eat.png)
The coming week’s stories in the mainstream media - inevitably focused on Coronavirus - will be dominated by two things. Firstly there...
02 May 2020
From: Features
![Corbyn Road homeowners say they fear a price fall](/img/default/eat.png)
Home owners on Corbyn Road in a Midlands town are seeking a name change because they fear house prices will plummet. The...
16 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Named and shamed: local councils with the slowest searches](/img/default/eat.png)
A trade body has sharply criticised HM Land Registry for its slow progress on digitising local searches after a promising start...
17 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Reforms win industry support as trade groups jostle for influence](/img/default/eat.png)
Trade bodies and property firms have strongly welcomed the recommendations for root and branch reform of the agency industry - and...
19 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![A quiet Budget – but there’s still enough to keep everyone busy](/img/default/eat.png)
On the face of it, this year’s Budget was not what you could describe as ‘housing heavy’ in terms of the...
03 November 2018
From: Features
![Blame the accountants - they admit lobbying PM demanding foreign buyer tax](/img/default/eat.png)
An accountancy trade body has revealed that last year it briefed MPs - including the Prime Minister and Housing Minister of...
04 October 2018
From: Breaking News
![Increased Trading Standards budget should focus on CPRs compliance](/img/default/eat.png)
You will perhaps have seen recently that the Government has decided to boost funding to the regulator, the National Trading Standards...
29 September 2018
From: Features
![Estate agency as it used to be - EAT looks back at 2008](/img/default/eat.png)
Estate Agent Today is 10 years old this weekend. We hope you’ll agree that’s a cause for celebration and a great...
29 June 2018
From: Breaking News
![Why James Brokenshire must build on Sajid Javid’s pivotal housing work](/img/default/eat.png)
To say this is a turbulent time for UK politics would be something of an understatement. As I write, the Brexit...
23 June 2018
From: Features
![Could embracing Commonhold put an end to leasehold nightmare?](/img/default/eat.png)
At any given moment it’s difficult to say which issue dominates our marketplace, but I think it’s fair to acknowledge during...
31 March 2018
From: Features
![Property experts reveal their Autumn Budget wishlist](/img/default/eat.png)
The housing industry has set out a list of demands in advance of the government’s hotly anticipated Autumn Budget on Wednesday. Despite...
18 November 2017
From: Features
![A Short history of Stamp Duty](/img/default/eat.png)
British politics is extraordinarily volatile right now and the ongoing battle between austerity and anti-austerity, Leave and Remain, and Conservative and...
18 November 2017
From: Features
![London council wants to levy first-ever mansion tax on high-value homes](/img/default/eat.png)
A Conservative council in London says it is to be the first local authority in the UK to levy a voluntary...
03 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Boards should be 'confined to Room 101', says campaigning agent](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agent who is campaigning for boards to be banned in his local area says they should be 'confined to...
05 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Why the new build leasehold ban is a big moment for our industry](/img/default/eat.png)
Without wishing to blow our own trumpet at this time, we did say at the start of the year that 2017...
28 July 2017
From: Features
![Property Natter: Q & A with Charlie Wright, CIELA](/img/default/eat.png)
To give you a nice distraction from the post-election madness, here’s an interview with Charlie Wright, founder of CIELA (or The...
10 June 2017
From: Features
![More professionals call for changes to stamp duty system](/img/default/eat.png)
As we approach Thursday's General Election, more property professionals have criticised stamp duty and called for the Government to make changes...
06 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![‘Fake agents’ are crippling independents’ reputations and livelihoods](/img/default/eat.png)
Think ‘fake agents’ are no threat to your business? Think again. The rise of online agents - dubbed by some as...
12 May 2017
From: Features
![Property Natter: Q & A with David Cox, ARLA Propertymark](/img/default/eat.png)
In this Natter we have an exclusive interview with David Cox, CEO of ARLA Propertymark and one of the best-known figures...
08 April 2017
From: Features
![Agents Do Charity - the ball, eggs and under-the-stars edition ...](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s been another busy week of fund-raising for agents across the industry, sparing time to do good works despite the market...
31 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Brexit: Housing must not be ignored in the clamour](/img/default/eat.png)
We’re almost nine months on from the EU Referendum and yet the issue remains the big divide across the nation: an...
18 March 2017
From: Features
![Why up-front ID verification could speed up transactions](/img/default/eat.png)
The housing market has not been short of a White Paper over the last few months, and while you might just...
25 February 2017
From: Features
![After stamp duty and agents’ fees, it’s time to seize the initiative](/img/default/eat.png)
Let me set out my stall from the beginning. Firstly with two buy to lets managed by an agency, I understand and...
03 December 2016
From: Features
![More homes, letting fees banned, but no change to stamp duty or buy to let tax](/img/default/eat.png)
Phillip Hammond has delivered his first Autumn Statement, tackling amongst other things, what he called “the housing challenge.” The speech made no...
23 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agents finalise their wish-list ahead of this week's Autumn Statement](/img/default/eat.png)
Estate agents have spent the weekend finalising their wish-list and lobbying MPs and government ahead of Wednesday’s Autumn Statement. Top of the...
21 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Autumn Statement: The property industry's wish list for Philip Hammond](/img/default/eat.png)
It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...
19 November 2016
From: Features
![Five guesses about the Autumn Statement](/img/default/eat.png)
Forecasts are a tricky business. And as I wrote in a recent Industry Views opinion piece, any prediction in the current...
19 November 2016
From: Features
![Agent and conveyancer relationships must go beyond the bottom line](/img/default/eat.png)
Working relationships between estate agents and conveyancers can be mutually beneficial with the referral of work between parties. However, they are missing...
12 November 2016
From: Features
![Sellers should pay stamp duty, says mortgage lender](/img/default/eat.png)
A mortgage lender has called on the government to reform stamp duty so that it is paid by property sellers instead...
22 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Housing must remain top of the government’s agenda](/img/default/eat.png)
With the number of new homes being built across the UK still significantly below the level needed to meet demand, housebuilders...
16 September 2016
From: Features
![Consumer group wants property details to include price per square foot](/img/default/eat.png)
The influential lobbying group the HomeOwners’ Alliance wants estate agents to quote the price per square foot of properties to allow...
03 December 2015
From: Breaking News
![Boris lobbying government to change Right To Buy](/img/default/eat.png)
The Financial Times says London Mayor and new Conservative MP Boris Johnson is lobbying the government in a bid to persuade...
02 July 2015
From: Breaking News
![Whoops…Lewis in charge despite government mix-up](/img/default/eat.png)
If the first few hours of the new government’s approach to housing are anything to go by, it could be a...
13 May 2015
From: Breaking News
![Take 2: government now decides to keep former housing minister after all](/img/default/eat.png)
If the first few hours of the new government’s approach to housing are anything to go by, it could be a...
12 May 2015
From: Breaking News
![Over the next five years, let’s talk - but not to ourselves](/img/default/eat.png)
So, a sigh of relief. Most agents will be pleased with the election result - even if they are not Tory supporters...