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This week saw around 80 conveyancing firms across the UK paralysed by a service outage caused by a ‘cyber incident’ on...

The founder of an online agency that switched to the for sale-by-owner model has turned his attention to property portals. Kae Travis...

Demand for prime London property from Americans doubled between September and October due to favourable dollar exchange rates and increased investor...

In this guest piece, Colum Smith, a property expert at law firm Taylor Rose MW, sets out why speedier transactions could...

The outcome of the Ukraine crisis is far from certain, but one thing has become abundantly clear. The long-overdue Economic Crime...

There are plenty in the estate agency and lettings world who don’t like the concept of Airbnb and similar enterprises. But they...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak says HM Revenue & Customs will probe any alleged wrongdoing in property purchases included in the so-called Pandora...

Picky buyers are walking away from property deals after realising the internet connection at a property is poor, research claims. A poll...

There has been much speculation about when agents will be allowed back to work, and what the new office working environment...

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

An estate agent in London claims he did £53m of property deals within hours of the Conservative victory in the General...

The number of prime residential housing transactions has increased rapidly in the past two decades and even in the past five...

Welcome back to Property Jobs Today - your Monday roundup of all the latest employment news from the industry. If you have...

Stamp duty won’t take centre stage at the Conservative Party conference - that’ll be Brexit, quelle surprise. But if the government...

An insurance company claims that over 29,000 property deals fall through in a year because buyers get cold feet over their...

A London buying agent has called for a second referendum on Britain’s EU membership, suggesting that it would give more certainty...

Does your company apply adequate customer due diligence measures when carrying out estate agency work?  Does it establish and maintain appropriate policies...

Almost a third of all ‘Suspicious Activity Reports’ concerning possible anti-money laundering infringements and reported to the National Crime Agency have...

One one in every 300 property purchases by overseas buyers trigger a so-called ‘red flag’ with the National Crime Agency -...

The government has published details of the Criminal Finances Bill with prime central London property used for purposes of money laundering...

The morning after the EU referendum, and Westminster, Britain, Europe and the world were left in shock at the news that...

While buy-to-let lenders brace themselves for further interventions as part of proposals currently being drawn up by the Prudential Regulation Authority...

There is still no word on when a police investigation will report on alleged irregularities said to involve the buy to...