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The Conveyancing Association (CA) has launched a new document to help firms benefit from the range of digital services available to...

Issues with property titles and borrower affordability have been revealed among the main reasons why mortgage offers have been withdrawn. The results...

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

Propertymark has given its backing to the ban on ground rents for new leasehold properties and has reminded agents of their...

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...

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...

The controversial proposal by a PropTech start up to charge potential viewers of properties to let or for sale has been...

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

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

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

A PropTech company has won a grant for a project to improve ID verification in the buying and selling process, via...

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...

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

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

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

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

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