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The public are being asked to inform the authorities if they know of agents operating fee-fixing cartels. The request - from the...

In a surprise weekend announcement the government has almost doubled funding for the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team - the...

The consumer group Which? says some estate agents are misleading buyers about in-house mortgage services.  The consumer group has issued a number...

A central London buying agent says she was once offered a bribe by an estate agent to try to persuade a...

Two estate agency directors have been disqualified over a cartel scandal which resulted in five agencies being fined over £370,000 for...

A survey suggests that the average fine incurred by estate agents for apparent non-compliance with anti-money laundering regulations is £11,842. Research by...

Rightmove has been accused of ignoring instances where agents have allegedly re-listed properties that have been sold in a bid to...

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

The Daily Telegraph claims that what it calls “dodgy practices” are leaving customers “thousands of pounds out of pocket.” The article quotes...

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

The National Association of Estate Agents is awaiting a response from the government to its demand for four changes to sale...

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

A jealous estate agent has been jailed for two months after dousing the bed of his ex-partner with diesel fuel and...

The fines issued by the Competition and Markets Authority on a local association of estate agents and three of its members...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is the latest body to warns its estate agent members that they have a legal...

Estate and letting agency review site raterAgent says an analysis of its own website suggests that 17 per cent, or just...

The Competition and Markets Authority has used Twitter to inform agents of the risks of joining trade assocaitons with loosely-worded or...