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Propertymark has launched a new working relationship with the Belvoir Group to help further improve standards and enhance financial protection for...

Former NAEA Propertymark President Stephen McCarron has questioned if agents should be held responsible for clients losing out from overvalued properties. Speaking...

Licensing of estate agents may raise the barrier to entry but it won’t stop those with poor morals, Fine & Country’s...

Agency brand Knight Frank has pledged to be one of the first adopters if minimum standards and qualifications are introduced in...

Property TV personality and EAT columnist Phil Spencer is set to host the biggest ever qualifications ceremony event to date, with...

A senior agency executive has said minimum standards and qualifications are “desperately needed” in the property sector. Adam Day, international expansion leader...

An online auction company executive has been appointed to the National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers committee for Propertymark. Stuart Collar-Brown, co-founder...

Propertymark is to probe Purplebricks over its lettings fiasco - and as the agency becomes a subject of ridicule in the...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is trying to win back respect within the property industry with new Rules of Conduct...

The industry’s two leading trade bodies have spoken out about the incident in which an agent accosted England’s chief medical officer,...

The TDS annual review 2020 indicates that deposit disputes have remained low over the last year, at around 1%. This is...

Members of Propertymark are left wondering today what if any future there is for the industry’s trade body. The shock resignation yesterday...

They are the names we hear about often, pushing for this or seeking clarifications on that. They are the representatives of...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has revised its Anti-Money Laundering guidance in the light of Coronavirus. It says the scale of...

The industry should continue to prepare for large-scale reforms such as mandatory agency training, the licensing of agents and a new...

Next week ludlowthompson celebrates its 25th anniversary. Here, I catch up with Stephen Ludlow, co-founder and now executive director of the...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a comprehensive guide to what it calls “the responsibilities of residential property agents...

Peter Young, managing director of John D Wood and one of the capital’s and the country’s best known estate agents, is...

A major independent agency is launching a training academy for current and future employees.    The Dacres Academy, will provide all eligible employees...

Here's a thought. The Chancellor may have done the buy-to-let industry a small favour with his emergency Budget in July. What...

The National Association of Estate Agents says the agents named in Channel 4‘s From Russia With Cash documentary may have tarnished...

Countrywide, the UK’s largest agency group, is teaming up with the National Association of Estate Agents in what both sides call...