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The relationship between estate agents and conveyancers is undoubtedly a complex one and has certainly had ‘its moments’ over the years,...

Automation is the direction the industry is moving in and it’s gathering pace every day. Forward-thinking agents are using automation and...

Trading Standards has indicated that non-compliant listings will eventually be rejected from portals as it urges agents to use their “professional...

Agents are being reminded that they still have an obligation to provide all material information as the sector awaits Part B...

More than half of agents disagree that mobile phone signal should be treated as material information in listings. James Munro, head of...

New estate agency listings that don’t display a price can no longer be uploaded to Rightmove from today. The portal giant has...

Agents may have to include the broadband speed and mobile signal for a property on listings in the next round of...

Portals are aiming to boost consumer awareness of new material information rules rather than refusing non-compliant listings. Agency listings have been required...

The head of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) has suggested the material listings rules should be...

If there’s not a book called ‘The Art of Collaboration’ then there should be. Update: a quick Google search shows there...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has launched its 2022 Lender Survey to identify where the industry can collaborate to improve the mortgage...

Why the urgency? Because the appetite is strong. Research by the Conveyancing Association reports that 98% of consumers are overwhelmingly in...

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

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

Agency trade bodies have backed the “clarity” provided by Trading Standards after it deemed “price on application” listings unlawful. It comes as...

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”...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

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

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

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

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

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

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 most senior Trading Standards officer policing the agency industry says he hopes the public will ask about referral fees in...

The work of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team is “vital” it claims - and the case of the...

A former estate agent has accused the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agent Team of trying to discredit him. Chris Wood,...

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

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...

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...