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Almost one in five vendors admit to having failed to disclose disputes with neighbours to prospective buyers when selling their home,...

Property brand and auctioneer Bond Wolfe has recorded total sales revenues of more than £178 million for 2023. The auctions division raised...

Long-awaited guidance on material information in property listings was revealed yesterday but policing of the rules won’t be any different, it...

Welcome to this week’s Agents Do Charity, our chance to salute those who do so much to help others. If your agency...

The inaugural Northwest PROPS Awards will be hosted by England and British Lions rugby legend Martin Bayfield. The two-time Grand Slam winner...

According to research, the average cost of home insurance was £300 in 2022 – a record low. However, this could increase...

A man has been jailed for fraud after conning potential property buyers out of nearly £16,000. Jaspal Singh Juttla, 64 of Northwood...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. Thomas Morris Sales & Lettings: Last week...

So next week we get to know how high housing is on the Government’s list of priorities. As we wait to see...

Inventory clerks and letting agency staff have been warned to put safety first when lone working or entering tenants’ properties for...

A chartered surveyor has highlighted 15 ‘crimes against property’ in a new book that aims to prevent owners from damaging the...

FCS Compliance has announced the latest in its anti-money laundering (AML) series of webinars with Rightmove.  The latest is titled The Role...

As the summer draws to a close, and we begin to move towards the final few months of the year, I’m...

Russell Quirk has gone from online estate agency founder to PR guru and property commentator, but has now added national talk show...

It's been a busy period of fundraising and volunteering for agents and property professionals. Support has included getting one charity back on...

As Britain’s housing boom continues,  SDL Property Auctions has warned of ten ways new homeowners could be fined up to £5,000...

Agents are being given the chance to learn how to improve their anti-money laundering (AML) processes from a veteran police investigator. Rightmove...

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

It’s the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell fire tragedy, but are high rises any safer today than they were then? On 14th...

Spicerhaart’s annual conference and awards ceremony returned earlier this month after a three-year hiatus caused by the pandemic. The company’s two day...

A ‘frightening’ number of respondents to a Rightmove online poll appear to be unaware of their anti-money laundering reporting requirements. The portal...

A new Deputy Ombudsman, Lesley Horton, has been appointed by The Property Ombudsman Scheme. She will work alongside Property Ombudsman, Rebecca Marsh,...

PayProp’s recent Rental Confidence Index survey polled property professionals about their biggest concerns for 2022. Unsurprisingly, new regulations were a top...

In a new column, solicitor Colum Smith, an expert in combating fraud at Taylor Rose MW Solicitors, explains why those looking...

A coroner says there is insufficient evidence to determine the cause of death of a 23-year-old estate agent found on a...

A 20 year old estate agent who admitted being four times over the drink driving limit has been fined and banned...

The controversial conveyancing firm at the centre of an apparent cyber attack has hit back at newspaper claims that it did...

A leading property lawyer says some agents will struggle to meet the demand for more ‘material information’ put forward by Trading...

If the UK and its allies have been played by Russia over the Ukraine ‘invasion’, and it’s beginning to look that...

A campaigning MP is to meet with a government minister to discuss controls and disincentives for second homes. Former Liberal Democrat MP...

A warning has gone out to estate agents that “more and more” reports are being filed about cyber attacks on agencies...

A conveyancer has contacted Estate Agent Today suggesting that the Simplify Group IT data crisis could be the death knell for the company...

A British estate agent working in Florida has been shot dead while preparing to show a property. Sara Trost, 40, was from...

Propertymark has come out in support of the Scottish government’s demand that buyers take lateral flow tests before viewings. The measure is...

A coroner says there is no explanation how an estate agent suffered a cut to his wrist, which led to his...

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

Estate agents and other workers in Northern Ireland are being urged to work from home "where possible" in a bid to...

Agents must have a robust plan in place in case they are subjected to a ransomware cyber attack, says the Guild...

The police have been called in to investigate the ongoing cyber-security incident which has led to many firms in the Simplify...

The owner of an estate agency in Sussex has been jailed for five years for what a judge has called “an...

A BBC investigation has revealed that a man’s house was sold and his furnishings removed without his knowledge, in the latest...

Media reports from the US state of Virginia say an 84-year-old man killed his estate agent after buying a property ‘sight...

The police investigation into the Savills agents who allegedly racially abused England players on Twitter after the Euros 2020 final is...

The Savills member of staff who allegedly racially abused England players online after the Euros 2020 final has been sacked. The Metro...

Few political policies have such a ring of the past as rent controls - they were last seen in this country...

Thirty-five years after London estate agent Suzy Lamplugh disappeared, the trust that bears her name is calling for action to address...

The Crown Prosecution Service has joined in the criticism of unemployed estate agent Lewis Hughes, who last week admitted a count...

NAEA Propertymark says there’s no appetite that it can see amongst its representatives across the UK for charging people £30 for...

Well, we’re technically more than halfway through the year already, but we’ll let that slide. And what a year it’s been...

Propertymark says a new pay-per-viewing service is “interesting” but warns agents to protect themselves by abiding by consumer protection regulations. The warning has come following...

Greater Manchester Police have arrested the Savills estate agent who allegedly posted a racist tweet about black England football stars after...

There is growing criticism of Savills on social media following the controversy over a racist tweet apparently sent from the personal...

The police have now received complaints about the tweet believed to have been sent from a personal account of a Savills...

The second man to appear in a notorious video showing an estate agent accosting Professor Chris Whitty has now been charged...

The estate agent who accosted England's chief medical officer, Professor Chris Whitty, has been charged with common assault. Lewis Hughes, 23 and...

The founder and managing director of FCS Compliance, Jerry Walters, has died suddenly. A statement from the company says he died during...

There are just three working days until the end of the stamp duty holiday for most buyers. That’s not even enough time...

Police are appealing for witnesses to an attack on a young agent last Saturday. Sussex estate agent Lizzie Noble, 22, was on her...

Books about property are, relatively speaking, commonplace - books by estate agents are far less so, hence the interest in The...

A family is appealing for help in tracing the whereabouts of a motorhome stolen from outside their house at Whitstable in Kent...

With property fraud on the rise and an ever-increasing number of transactions taking place in the lettings sector, having strict anti-money laundering...

A leading industry trade body is warning that remote-working agents and smaller independent agencies are particularly vulnerable to the growing threat...

Local elections rarely set the pulse racing and this year’s poll on Thursday faces a similar problem. But this time, it’s a...

An estate agency has apologised after a bogus employee posted offensive comments about Prince Philip on a newly-created fake Facebook account. This...

First the good news - estate agents are trusted more than politicians and no less than bankers. Now the bad news:...

Another TV programme will this weekend examine the fate of Suzy Lamplugh, the London estate agent who disappeared 35 years ago...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, I speak with Anthony Payne, Managing Director and co-founder of LonRes, a data and network...

An agent working for a Countrywide brand in Lancashire has been given a suspended jail sentence after being found guilty of...

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

An agent is challenging the insurer Hiscox over its interpretation of whether to honour a Business Interruption Insurance policy. A standard letter...

Hello and welcome to Agents Do Charity, the regular round-up of industry good work. Whatever the cause, it’s great to publicise agents’...

A new appeal has been launched to discover what happened to missing London agent Suzy Lamplugh. She disappeared in July 1986, aged 25....

There’s a call this morning for estate and letting agents to regard the physical viewing of any property on sale or...

A TV show relating the story of London estate agent Suzy Lamplugh will this evening reveal that there is a possible new...

Figures drawn up by a property industry recruitment guru show that estate agents work only two thirds of the hours they...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that all retail staff will be obliged to wear masks when working - and it's now...

The estate agency industry is still under the spotlight for possible illegal price fixing cartels according to the Competition and Markets...

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

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

HM Land Registry customers - including agents and conveyancers - can now manage all of their applications and correspondence including notices,...

Propertymark is working with an organisation called the Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance to inform agents how to sport signs and respond...

An open verdict has been returned on the death of an estate agent whose body was spotted just 10 metres away...

A successful property newspaper has collapsed after one of its former directors turned computer hacker and deliberately deleted over 5,000 files...

The managing director of a Winkworth branch is threatening to report a senior member of a nearby Countrywide office to the...

An agent in the unusual position of operating across the England and Welsh border says many of his competitors appear to...

The Metropolitan Police says it’s “assessing” the controversial surrounding the Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick, and a planning decision over which he...

Many of the leading advocates of the self-employed estate agent business model have talked about why many want new recruits with...

HM Land Registry is making it easier to verify individuals’ ID from today. In addition to conveyancers and chartered legal executives, verification...

If it’s really the case that estate agents’ offices could be in the category of High Street premises first allowed to...

The Police and Crime Commissioner for an area with thousands of holiday homes wants their owners to make them available to...

Countrywide has strongly denied claims made to Estate Agent Today that some people have felt obliged to work at an admin...

The government has at last issued extensive advice on home moving and the activities of estate agents during the continuing Coronavirus crisis. This...

The coronavirus outbreak has highlighted once again how fragile and interconnected our societies have become. We don’t know yet how dangerous Covid-19...

An estate agent who swindled a 69 year old woman out of £5,000 has escaped jail - and has been ordered...

Sky News claims that Countrywide and LSL Property Services are discussing a merger to become a £500m super-agency.  In an exclusive it...

The new housing minister is Christopher Pincher, who for the past decade has been Conservative MP for Tamworth having had a...

Not for the first time, a government policy on housing ends up begging more questions than it provides answers - but...

The government has announced its First Homes scheme - a policy under which it says some new homes will see their...

After a challenging period for the UK property market, recovery is very much on the cards and the end to uncertainty...

Estate agents concerned over security breaches will be closely analysing what happens with a case concerning a London firm’s compromised email...