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We have more regulations controlling the sector than ever before and we have more ‘regulators’ involved in controlling the sector than...

Agents are being advised on what course of action they should take to safeguard their right to fees should they be dis-instructed...

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...

A high-profile London agency is asking the police and property industry bodies including Trading Standards to investigate a fake company posing under...

It’s now more than a year since the government offered an additional £4 million to councils to combat rogue landlords. At the...

Countrywide and Foxtons have thrown their weight behind an idea to identify every single UK residential property with a unique number. The...

A study of 2,000 home owners shows that over a third have felt pressured by an agent into use its in-house mortgage...

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

The Boomin portal, which incentivises agents to cross-sell and benefit from referral fees, is to receive advice on fee disclosure from...

The National Association of Estate Agents has thrown its weight behind the recommendation of Trading Standards that agents must by law be...

Customers must be told about third party referral fees when buying or selling a home says the National Trading Standards Estate...

A quick buy firm which typically purchases homes from sellers at below market levels has accused estate agents and the private...

One of the many new portals recently launched has made a pitch for agents to join because of its referral fees...

A quick buy firm boasting it has ‘sold’ a home within six days also says it now takes 140 days on...

House raffles and similar competitions have become mired in controversy in recent years, thanks to some of them failing to abide by...

It may be that by the time you read this it’s all over for Robert Jenrick, the Secretary of State for...

The Property Ombudsman’s office is still receiving 40 to 50 calls a day from the public, even though most transactions with...

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

The National Association of Estate Agents has launched its Sales Protocol Toolkit, in a bid to reduce fall-throughs and dramatically improve...

The Trading Standards report on the future of referral fees is almost completed and will be sent to government next week. However, James...

Future complaints about property raffles by individual home owners seeking to avoid estate agency fees will in future be handled by...

Agents now have only seven days to complete a referral fees survey, announced late on Friday by Trading Standards and The...

The National Trading Standards Estate & Letting Agency Team and The Property Ombudsman have launched an urgent survey to assess awareness...

It is possible that agents and their business partners in the conveyancing, mortgage and survey industries could be obliged to have...

The annual conference of the National Association of Estate Agents takes place on February 27 - the date when the future...

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

The Guild of Property Professionals has welcomed government steps to provide buyers and sellers with greater transparency in transactions - and...

The government has issued a revised version of its official How To Buy and How To Sell documents, aimed at consumers...

Estate and letting agents are being urged to check that they are signed up with an approved redress scheme that covers...

The Property Ombudsman will in future refer more estate agents to the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agent Team if...

The Property Ombudsman says its members must in future disclose referral fees in a bid to make previously-hidden costs open and...

It’s clear that some agents are not fans of Trading Standards officers, described in the comments sections of the trade press...

Estate Agent Today has been given details of the new National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents Team - the body...

The jury appears to be out on whether the new enforcement body for estate and lettings agents will be resourced sufficiently...

A new team has been set up to police all estate and letting agency legislation including the upcoming tenants' fees ban. The...