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Trade and representative bodies representing the legal, surveying, estate agency and property management sectors, including the Conveyancing Association, have launched the...

Trade and representative bodies representing the legal, surveying, estate agency and property management sectors have launched the fifth iteration of the...

In the first of a short series of articles, David Beaumont, managing director of Compliance Matters, casts a professional eye over...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) has published the long-awaited Parts B and C of material information...

The chairman of the Residential Logbook Association (RLBA) has queried the relevance of a new Government-backed property group focused on digital...

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

Trading Standards has indicated that non-compliant listings will eventually be rejected from portals as it urges agents to use their “professional...

Agents are being reminded that they still have an obligation to provide all material information as the sector awaits Part B...

Yesterday we reported on how the Chartered Institute of Taxation was warning of problems with new HMRC stamp duty rules to...

The independent review into the RICS scandal of recent months and how the governance of the body failed, has thrown up...

The House of Commons Library has published what may be the definitive record of estate agency regulations issued in recent years...

Propertymark has set out a four point strategy for the future of the organisation. The body - which encompasses the National Association...

The mandatory qualifications expected of agents have not been forgotten and will come into effect in two or three years. That’s the...

Earlier this month, it was revealed that property industry bodies have joined a new Code of Practice Steering Group to enact...

Agents now have a chance to say what they think should be in a new Code of Conduct being discussed following...

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

A new estate agency Code of Practice is to be written by a group set up by the Royal Institution of Chartered...

Much of the nation’s attention may have been on saying Remain or Leave in the EU Referendum but this enormous decision...

A group of leading tax experts claims the stamp duty surcharge coming into effect one week from today will hurt the...

“Estate Agents have been highlighted by the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) as under reporting relative to their vulnerability to money...