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Next month will see new rules around upfront Material Information for property sales and lettings come into force in the UK...

Referral fees, lack of trust and too much email have been identified as barriers to greater collaboration between conveyancers and estate...

Agency proptech supplier Muuvo has partnered with Canopy to provide its RentPassport and RentTracking products. Muuvo provides software for agents to help...

A senior industry figure has called for upfront information changes to move faster to boost market confidence amid the cost of...

Millions of people use online property portals every year to conduct their property search, whether it be for sales or for...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) deemed yesterday that the use of POA or “price on application”...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) has deemed that the use of POA or “price on application”...

Property portals are preparing to support agents in complying with a new era of upfront material information. From the end of May,...

The debate within estate agency on upfront information rumbles on and now there are calls for greater levels of transparency from...

Buyers are happy and ready to pay for more upfront material information when it comes to purchasing a property. It comes as...

From the beginning of April, long-awaited rules from the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) came into effect....

Auction house The iamproperty Group has reached a new agent milestone. It now has 4,000 agents on the network using its auction...

Estate agents and conveyancers have agreed on better working relationships at the first collaborative event between the two professions. There has been...

Agents and conveyancers have signed up to a new buyers’s and seller’s property information form that is described as having been...

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

A number of pro-active conveyancers are joining a new conveyancing directory being set up by one of the leading figures in...

Agents are being advised to revise their processes now to accommodate changes to the information required on property details, which begin...

A prominent industry supplier has produced startling statistics about the numbers of fall throughs in just the first 10 weeks or...

PropTech solutions have continued to ingratiate themselves in both the forefront of an agency within advertising mediums and in the backend...

Propertymark is urging agents to respond to a consultation exercise being conducted by the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents...

Those aficionados of the Sound of Music will recognise the tag line above. It came to my mind when thinking about...

Ben Ridgway and Jamie Cooke, co-founders of iamproperty Group brought together industry leaders in a recent roundtable to discuss the challenges...

Of the many industry buzzwords, I suspect “upfront information” was up there as one of the most widely used in 2021....

One of the UK’s leading economic experts is to be the speaker at a Rightmove seminar this week, considering whether events...

A webinar this week is set to see the release of more details of changes to property listings being demanded by...

A PropTech supplier has been quick off the mark to launch a tool which it says will help agents satisfy new...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agent Team has released background information on how it came to make changes to...

A leading property lawyer says some agents will struggle to meet the demand for more ‘material information’ put forward by Trading...

Industry figures have come out in favour of the long-term programme of new compulsory information to be contained on property listings. From...

Trading Standards and the government have jointly announced compulsory new data which must appear on property listings. A property's council tax band or...

The government’s call for a pack of property information to be made available upfront during the sales process has been welcomed...

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

One part of the UK is to get a taste of the mandatory estate agent regulation that many want to see...

Ben Ridgway gives his views on the current market, material information and PropTech for agents. What is your current view of the...

Digital marketing agency Angels Media and digital platform Gazeal have announced an exclusive strategic partnership to help improve and speed up...

The Trading Standards agency team has outlined to Estate Agent Today the process it will follow to improve what it calls...

The controversial demands of Trading Standards for more “material information” to be provided upfront in property details have been criticised by...

With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...

Momentum is building for agents to provide more information on property details and portals - not wait until a prospective buyer...

National Trading Standards wants agents, portals and industry groups to come up with ways to provide basic essential material information ‘upfront’.  The National...

The Property Ombudsman has joined calls for greater disclosure of referral fees by agents.  The issue has become a hot topic in...

The Property Ombudsman is advising agents to use virtual viewings only as a filtering process with offers being agreed only ‘subject...

Trading Standards says agents must include more “material information” in property details even if this may not be a wholly positive...

The Advertising Standards Authority has issued a guidance note warning online estate agents, after complaints about them have “grown dramatically”. “Property is big...

Our latest case study come from a recent news item to have hit the industry and national press. A disgruntled tenant is claiming...

In our previous 2 blogs we have covered the definitions of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations (CPRs) and what the practical...

In 2014 The Properties Misdescriptions Act was repealed and replaced with the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations, otherwise known as...

In our previous blog, we looked at the definitions outlined by the CPRs. In our next blog we’ll look at the...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is the latest body within the industry to warn its members against portal juggling. Following statements...

As a service provider to both Estate Agents and Conveyancing Solicitors from one platform, ETSOS sits in a fairly unique position...

There have been concerns raised over new trading standards guidance for estate agents on having to reveal ‘significant defects’ about properties...