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More than 70 local authority areas have seen average house prices rise over the last year, bucking the national trend, Halifax...

Almost a third of homes sold across Britain have been purchased by a cash buyer, new research shows. Analysis of the latest...

The time it’s taking to sell a home across England and Wales has fallen by an average of 44 days, new...

Given their leading role in the recent upfront information revolution, interest in the work of the National Trading Standards Estate &...

More than a third of England’s regions have seen buyer demand fall over the previous quarter, research claims in the latest...

A new housing market snapshot from Zoopla suggests that in the supply of homes coming to the market has triggered a...

A famous environmental campaigner has sold his home to a local - because he feels second homes are “obscene and grotesque.” Green...

Average house prices in Wales have risen three per cent in the past year, despite multiple difficult lockdowns considered more severe...

With the UK officially in what has been described as the single worst national recession in the world, one agency has...

To most people, purchasing a home is the single most significant financial commitment made across a lifetime. Given the impact and...

The industry press has given substantial space to recommendations from the Regulation of Property Agents, the government’s working party which has...

It may well seem that the government is pre-occupied with one issue, and one issue alone. While preparations for Brexit take up a...

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...

An online estate agency run by one of the country’s youngest entrepreneurs has agreed to change a reference about savings on...

In our previous blog, we looked at the definitions outlined by the CPRs. In our next blog we’ll look at the...

There’s a new twist in the row between a Cornish agent and the Advertising Standards Authority. The row revolves around a tweet...

Chancellors Group has signed a five year deal to list its sales and lettings properties with the OnTheMarket portal. The group has...

In recent years the mortgage industry has gone through some testing times. Recession and regulation have led to more stringent lending...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team based in Powys has revealed that its cases under investigation include apparent offences of...

Peter Alan, part of the Connells Group, has acquired Marina Quay, a specialist Swansea Marina estate agency as part of its...

A new ‘enforcement toolkit’ has been designed to assist local authority trading standards teams beef up its policing of local estate...

A new trading standards Guidance on Property Sales has been launched aimed at improving estate agency service to customers.  The Powys-based National...

Agents and other property professionals are being invited to a briefing on how new trading standards guidance will affect the industry. The...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team has prepared a draft of revised guidelines on property sales, to replace the old...

Sky News has tipped London Labour MP Stella Creasy - a long-standing critic of estate agents and lettings - as a...