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A petition is being started, urging the government to ban the payment of referral fees to estate agents. It’s reported to have...

The government is to answer a call made in an online petition for stamp duty to apply when contracts are exchanged,...

The online petition which prompted a debate by MPs has now won the support of around 150,000 signatures. Typically public support for...

An online agency has apologised to a single mother who felt pressured into allowing viewings of a property she was renting. Local media in...

There is no scientific formula, no list of must-have elements in a successful campaign. That’s especially the case for a campaign involving...

The government is keeping everyone guessing about the stamp duty holiday but one comment by a senior minister suggests movement towards a...

Labour and Conservative MPs have expressed a unanimous view on their desire to see an extension of the stamp duty holiday...

You can watch the Parliamentary debate on a possible Stamp Duty Holiday extension here, using the streaming link at the bottom of...

Today’s the day when Parliament debates a possible extension to the stamp duty holiday beyond its March 31 cliff edge deadline...

An online petition has been started by an independent estate agent seeking a radical overhaul of how homes are sold in...

A leading mortgage broker is warning that over half the lenders in a key segment of the market are already unable...

A large majority of estate agents fear a surge in 'failed sales’ as the stamp duty holiday cliff edge gets ever-closer. The latest National...

It's been announced that MPs will after all debate the Stamp Duty Holiday extension following a hugely popular online petition. The 90-minute...

The MP who presides over online petitions such as the one calling for an extension of the stamp duty holiday says...

The government may be stopping MPs debating an extension to the stamp duty holiday - despite a pledge they would do...

London buyers have been by far the biggest winners from the stamp duty holiday according to new research. The Keller Williams UK...

The Northern Research Group, which has the backing of over 50 Conservative MPs in the north of England, wants the Chancellor...

One of the housing market’s senior analysts says the end of the stamp duty holiday on March 31 would not be...

The online petition calling for an extension to the stamp duty holiday is set to pass 100,000 signatures today. This means the...

An online petition wants all agents’ offices to close during the pandemic. Keeping them open means agents feel "forced and pressured" to conduct...

Two of the most outspoken agents in the industry have criticised those calling for an extension to the stamp duty holiday...

Property expert Phil Spencer is warning that “chaos” and “mayhem” looms in the housing market if the stamp duty holiday is...

Pressure is building on the government to agree a tapered end to the stamp duty holiday, even if a full-blown extension now...

The next Budget will be held on March 3 next year - in time for Chancellor Rishi Sunak to change his...

Agents and property experts have reacted angrily to the government's refusal to extend the stamp duty holiday. The government has told campaigners that...

A petition has been launched demanding a stamp duty holiday extension. The online petition is the idea of Jonathan Steel - a layperson...

Listings from an agent who ended his contract with Rightmove were not removed as he expected - instead, he is accusing...

An agent has started an online petition demanding negotiators and others in the agency industry be paid the legal minimum wage...

Online petitions appear to be the flavour of the week - the latest is calling for the government’s Help to Buy...

A mystery online petition is urging Rightmove to filter its advertisements “in a bid to curb down inflationary / speculative / fake...

When a tenant paid his initial one month’s rent in addition to a tenancy deposit in exchange for the keys to...

eMoov founder and chief executive Russell Quirk has launched another online petition, this time calling for mandatory licensing of estate agents. The...

It’s been a heartening few weeks for those of us who thought that protest was dead – or, more precisely, that...

The Residential Property Surveyors Association is the latest of many trade bodies to come out against government proposals to privatise the...

An online petition to scrap Energy Performance Certificates has received only modest support so far. The petition has been put forward by eMoov...

The government's consultation on the proposed privatisation of the Land Registry closes today. Interested parties have had since March 24 to give...

An online petition against the privatisation of the Land Registry now has around 225,000 signatures with just over a week to...

Another online petition has been launched against one of Chancellor George Osborne’s fiscal measures seen as an attack on the private...

The prospect of quarterly tax returns being imposed on some businesses - including small estate agencies and other small firms servicing...

There are fears that a little-publicised proposal could mean some of the country's smallest estate agencies would have to file tax returns...

Another day, another story about Foxtons. This time the protest is against the London estate agency chain installing so-called ‘anti-homeless spikes’...