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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...

Scams are rife in the quick house buying sector with many companies seeking to take advantage of sellers in desperate situations. That’s...

A trade body is warning that increased home working triggered by Coronavirus makes the agency industry more vulnerable than ever to...

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

Two companies that persuaded property investors to pay as much as £25,000 for a parking space have been wound up in...

Businesses across all sectors have struggled to adapt to the changes brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. One group that have bucked...

Consumers are not as worried as they should be about conveyancing fraud, putting them at risk of losing life-changing sums of...

Sellers are being warned to make strict checks before responding to advertisements apparently from prospective buyers.  The National Association of Property Buyers...

An estate agency has been targeted by scammers who leave fake reviews if they haven’t been given a pay-off. Minors & Brady...

A number of estate agents have recently received phishing emails, fraudulently claiming to be from the main portals and trying to...

As an agent, it’s part of your role to protect and advise your clients throughout the buying and selling process. Mortgages are...

Six directors have been banned from office after misleading over 300 people who bought new build homes in the north of...

An insurance company is launching a policy which it says will protect consumers with comprehensive cover in the event of a...

A warning to people selling their homes to beware of internet-based scams offering cut-price surveys has been sounded by a leading...

The Treasury Select Committee of MPs has announced an inquiry into ‘economic crime’ - including the possibility that overseas-owned UK homes could be...

An estate agent branded as "thoroughly dishonest" following a Gumtree scam has been jailed for 20 months, suspended for two years....

The National Association of Estate Agents is telling members to delete a spam email purporting to have been sent by the...

The Property Ombudsman has taken the unusual step of warning all estate and letting agents to act with caution over fraudulent...

In this Natter we have an exclusive interview with David Cox, CEO of ARLA Propertymark and one of the best-known figures...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...

Over 50,000 have signed up to the Land Registry’s property fraud alert service following a series of high-profile stories on the...

An estate agent spotted her father’s house advertised on Rightmove just three days before it was due to be auctioned -...

Portal juggling has been defined as one of a number of "emerging threats" aimed at deceiving consumers through the manipulation of...

Who are you? Nick Dyoss, Group Business Development Director, SearchFlow, property intelligence specialists You have a high profile within the conveyancing search industry,...

  Who are you? Carole Marsden   What does it say on your business card? UK Sales Director What attracted you to join SearchFlow?  SearchFlow has...

Fraudsters attacking the conveyancing sector, successfully stealing large sums of money from homebuyers, are making national headlines at a depressing rate....

The Land Registry has thrown more light on the case in which veteran war reporter Max Hastings was the subject of...

In January readers of Estate Agent Today and Letting Agent Today were given the opportunity to give their views on proposed...

eMoov boss Russell Quirk and a senior member of his management team have been targeted in a fraud scam.  Yesterday morning the...

A scam property fund has been wound up on the recommendation of the Financial Conduct Authority after glaiming to offer guaranteed...

The Independent Network of Estate Agents says it is worried that the so-called ‘pension freedom’ created by relaxations in over-55s accessing...