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The United Kingdom stands on the precipice of a historic overhaul in property ownership. With the King's speech unveiling the anticipated...

Propertymark has written to the Housing Secretary Michael Gove to reiterate its longstanding call for regulation of property agents. The agency trade...

For almost as long as any of us can remember, we’ve had an unpaid colleague getting sales over the line for...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has announced a new update to the Leasehold Property Enquiries (LPE1) form, which it...

Conservative MPs are continuing to question when new estate agency regulations will come in as the Government sticks to its stock...

The issue of agency qualifications has finally been mentioned in the Houses of Parliament, almost three years since the landmark Regulation...

They say that in fashion, if you wait for long enough, clothes that are hanging at the back of your wardrobe...

The recent stamp duty holiday and the subsequent conveyancing logjam this triggered has acted as a wakeup call for the industry....

A prominent London-focussed buying agent says she is seeing more foreign buyers returning to the UK capital - with more expected...

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

The government has set up a committee to push forward ideas on the collective form of homeownership known as commonhold. Housing Secretary...

Agents and a wide range of property experts have demanded yet more government funds to end the cladding crisis that is...

First off, hello and welcome to this new series – appearing in Estate Agent Today’s Breaking News section each month –...

The mandatory qualifications expected of agents have not been forgotten and will come into effect in two or three years. That’s the...

Earlier this month, it was revealed that property industry bodies have joined a new Code of Practice Steering Group to enact...

They are the names we hear about often, pushing for this or seeking clarifications on that. They are the representatives of...

Buyer registrations and sales enquiries are reportedly back to pre-Covid levels. Completions, however, are lagging behind. This is probably down to...

  Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Catherine Shinerock - ARO Account Manager What is your ‘company name’...

It’s a substantial Tory government for the next five years: what does this mean for estate agents, property and the market? We have...

A 10 point manifesto to drive forward leasehold reform has been published by prominent campaigner Louie Burns, of The Leasehold Solutions Group. The 10...

Hello there and welcome along to the latest PJT, your weekly catch-up on who’s moving where in agency, amongst suppliers and...

The industry press has given substantial space to recommendations from the Regulation of Property Agents, the government’s working party which has...

The government has published proposals for far-reaching changes to the way estate and letting agents are regulated, trained and licensed. The proposals...

The police have opened an investigation after a number of complaints have been made about the financial affairs of a sales...

The Competition and Markets Authority has formally launched an investigation into the sale of leasehold properties - including possible mis-selling. This follows...

It may well seem that the government is pre-occupied with one issue, and one issue alone. While preparations for Brexit take up a...

The National Association of Estate Agents has welcomed the commitment by the Competition and Markets Authority to investigate the mis-selling of...

Almost as soon as the government yesterday made its latest announcement to outlaw rogue leasehold deals, the measure was branded “pathetic. More...

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

A series of leasehold roadshows beginning next month in Manchester aims to throw a spotlight on problems associated with the tenure,...

A well-known London estate agency says it signing up to a US-based real estate franchise network run by billionaire Warren Buffett. From...

You will notice that there is a new author for this regular column for Estate Agent Today. Last month I was...

Cast your mind back to July 2008 – Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, the Euros were in full swing in Austria/Switzerland...

Any letting agent appreciates the effort, dedication, and sometimes heartache, that comes with running a business yet equally knows that when...

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

Estate Agent Today understands several major national agencies and some smaller operators are involved in a project to understand why transaction...

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

Your buy-to-let investment is an extremely valuable asset and you need to know the income generated from it will be safely...

One of the three government-approved redress schemes for estate and letting agents says it’s quitting the sector this year - but...

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

Having launched 13 years ago, PayProp, part of Humanstate Group, an international private technology services group, has grown into a leading...

Historically, short-term rentals have been an unattractive business for the majority of estate agents and property managers. Scarcity of demand from tenants...

In November 2016 when the Autumn Statement was delivered by Chancellor Philip Hammond, the announcement was made to ban letting agent...

Next year is likely to be a challenging time for letting agents, following a raft of changes introduced by the government...

Working relationships between estate agents and conveyancers can be mutually beneficial with the referral of work between parties. However, they are missing...

A number of my member firms (Bold Legal Group) have reported that, compared to three years ago, the time to get...

There was a whopping 42 per cent rise in referrals to The Property Ombudsman last year according to the annual report...