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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has secured agreements from eight freeholders to remove “problematic ground rent” terms from leases. The competition...

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has repeated calls for Stamp Duty to be scrapped as politicians prepare for party conference...

Salisbury-based agency brand Whites is celebrating a staff member who has reached 35 years of working for the company. Glenda Privett joined...

Quick-buy and part exchange company Spring has announced a leadership reshuffle as it targets £100m of property acquisitions and sales this...

Thousands more leaseholders are expected to see ground rents cut and some may even receive refunds. It forms part of the Competition...

Proptech firm iamproperty has formed its own committee of agents to discuss issues facing the property market. The auctioneer and sales progression...

Agents using Boomin have managed to convert more than 20% of SmartVal valuation requests into instructions. The challenger portal and lead generation...

Hello and welcome to another Agents Do Charity, the weekly round up of fund-raising in our industry. Once more our thoughts are...

Referral revenues shared between agents in a major industry trade group has hit over £1.35m.  Daniel Pepperell, regional director at The Guild...

Hello and welcome to this edition of Property Jobs Today, a chance to catch up with who’s moving where in the...

Fledgling portal Boomin - launching later this month - has announced another 10 independent regional agencies as founder members. This includes its...

A conveyancing firm is blaming councils for delays in transactions. Conveyancers have themselves been sharply criticised in recent weeks as the sharp...

The senior management from four of the agencies announced as founding members of Boomin have spoken out in favour of the...

The new Boomin portal being launched shortly has named 10 high profile agency chains as founding members. The 10 give the new portal...

Over £73,000 has been stolen from a Countrywide branch by two admin staff making false travel claims and issuing fake invoices. The crimes...

OnTheMarket has signed auto another new homes builder, Miller Homes. "Miller Homes is the latest large homebuilder to join OnTheMarket and we look forward to introducing the...

Hello and welcome to the last day of January, Brexit Day and - perhaps most importantly - the latest edition of...

A bid to ban the building of new homes for out-of-town buyers has backfired on a Cornish community - and now...

A slew of bad news stories about online estate agencies may have taken the lustre off the sector in recent weeks,...

Hello and welcome to the latest Property Jobs Today - the last one in November. Career moves tend to slow this time...

OnTheMarket has signed up an estate and lettings agency firm run by a family and with 11 offices across west Devon...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today - a slim edition given how quiet the industry is at the...

An analysis of data from HM Revenue and Customs reveals that inheritance tax paid by UK families has topped £5 billion...

Let’s face it - summer seems to be on holiday itself, if the weather in the UK is anything to go...

The recent rise in consumer complaints against sales and letting agents suggests that there is a general lack of trust and...

The property market in northern England, supported in part by the Northern Powerhouse concept, has attracted a lot of media attention,...

The East Midlands, which consists of several areas including Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, and much of Lincolnshire, has an ancient...

Today we mark the start of Christmas week with a fabulously festive Mannequin Challenge (that’s how it starts off, anyway) and a...

Thanks for your continuing enthusiasm sending in your office photographs as we continue the countdown to Christmas. We’ll be publishing more next...

The Advertising Standards Authority has intervened in the case of an estate agency using information from Rightmove that was more than...

Next week sees a court case which will decide whether there will have to be a re-run of the ‘second homes...

A report says agents in the Cornish holiday home haven of St Ives admit the local market has been hit by...

Brexit and the summer may be creating a faltering housing market in places but two agencies are defying any gloom by...

Fine & Country is opening a new office in Shrewsbury later this month, marking the brand’s expansion in the West Midlands.  The...

An estate agency chief operating in an area where there are high levels of holiday home ownership has stood up for...

We seem to have skipped spring completely and moved from winter to summer in just one week - so what better...

It's a high quality RICS approved report, carried out by one of our RICS accredited local surveyors. The RICS HomeBuyer Survey is...

Online estate agency easyProperty is believed to have parted company with its PR firm The Red Brick Road after less than...

A new portal, New Home Finder, has agreed a contract with Redrow to market its entire UK portfolio, including forthcoming developments,...

Miller Metcalfe Surveyors is a centre of excellence, with accreditation from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors for residential surveys and...

The consumer is King and to protect sellers and buyers' best interests estate and letting agents have to operate in the...

Zoopla Property Group has appointed Vin Murria as an independent non-executive director. Murria, who left her role as chief executive of AIM-listed...

As the summer holidays near, we’re continuing to publicise the side of estate agency that rarely presents itself to the public...

Online estate agent easyProperty has appointed a creative and PR agency to manage an ‘above the line’ advertising campaign ahead of...