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Estate agency regulation is needed to help improve the homebuying and selling process, MPs have been told. The first hearing of the...

MPs are set to begin their inquiry into improving the home buying and selling process today. The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities...

Foxtons’ share price got a mini boost on Monday morning after rumours that the agency brand is preparing for a sale. The...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has arranged a new pilot scheme for a group of lawyers and conveyancers to...

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

MPs have launched an inquiry on improving the home buying and selling process in England. The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (LUHC)...

Property professionals have called for the Government to allocate its promised £3m towards improving the home buying and selling process to...

UK property professionals should look to Norway when assessing how to improve the home buying process, a housing minister has claimed. Speaking...

Agents should be more picky about their listings during 2024 and focus on sellers that will help speed up sales by...

The 2023 Autumn Budget, amongst its considerable 110 growth measures, contained an important announcement for the property sphere, with £3 million...

Reservation agreement provider Gazeal has partnered with Optimus, Landmark’s panel of conveyancers to offer its services as an option for home...

It was actor Charlies Sheen who said: ‘I have one speed. I have one gear. Go!’ The same might not be said...

The Autumn Statement ended up being silent on Stamp Duty reforms and direct housing market stimulus but there were some nuggets...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) is seeking feedback from agents on proposals that it feels will “revolutionise moving home...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has launched a new document to help firms benefit from the range of digital services available to...

The property transaction in England and Wales is a notoriously slow and fraught process, taking typically 150 days to complete, with...

If we turn the clock back only twenty years, the concept of managing our lives from a handheld device was within...

Client onboarding and verification tool LandmarkAgent has announce a strategic partnership with CRM provider Street.co.uk. The collaboration will enable agency users to...

Coadjute has launched a Digital Property Data Pack service for its users. The pack is designed to cover the requirements of the...

The Labour Party has announced it will be hosting an emergency mortgage summit this week. The summit, happening in London tomorrow, is...

When it comes to the usage, and benefits of, providing upfront material information to all those involved in the home buying...

Industry veteran Tim Main has issued a challenge for agents in the latest attempt to speed up sales and reduce fall-throughs. Main,...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has formed an independent industry body, the Open Property Data Association (OPDA), for companies...

The Home Buying & Selling Technology Group (HBSG) has launched the latest version of the Property Data Trust Framework following live...

A year-long pilot of using upfront material Information by conveyancer Thomas Legal and search provider Conveyancing Data Services, a part of...

A coalition of businesses from across the property industry have united to call on the Government to do more to speed-up...

Yes it should….and we’re getting closer. Where there’s no chain involved, here at AVRillo, we can be ready to exchange contracts in...

Last week was the first ever National Conveyancing Week, which I hope registered with agents and perhaps you even took up...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has announced a new update to the Leasehold Property Enquiries (LPE1) form, which it...

National Conveyancing Week has kicked off from today. The awareness-raising week features a series of in-person, online and pre-recorded events aimed at...

Collaborative Conveyancing has won an Innovate UK grant in partnership with the Hartree Centre research facility and completed a fundraising round...

Conveyancers are warning that this week’s Land Registry strikes could have a knock-on effect on property sales once staff return to...

Industry analyst and and chair of The Home Buying and Selling Group Kate Faulkner, has called for the Government to stop agents being...

We are now well into 2023 and, while there have been a huge number of steps taken towards a digital future...

Fewer first-time buyers got on the property ladder last year but there was an increase in people buying for business purposes,...

Property market analyst and chair of The Home Buying and Selling Group Kate Faulkner was given an OBE in the New...

As we get ever closer to 2023, this final Natter of the year is dedicated to the five biggest property moments of...

As we move closer to the end of the year, we invariably begin to think of what 2023 will bring, how...

Agents have begun trialling a new common technology framework devised by a committee within the Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG)...

Recent political changes – and there have been quite a few in recent weeks – have brought about something of a...

With reform of the home buying and selling process as crucial as it's ever been, and disrupters like Coadjute and PEXA...

The Government is being urged to take the lead on homebuying reform as conveyancers warn that recruitment issues and lawyer burn-out...

One of the biggest frustrations people have with the home buying and selling process is the amount of time it takes...

Zoopla chief executive Charlie Bryant has revealed aspirations for the portal to play a key role in the home buying process. Speaking...

First off, my own quick tribute to the Queen, who died on Thursday afternoon aged 96. Despite her age and declining...

In this latest Day in the Life of...Natter, I get an insight into one of the most vital cogs of the...

I am somewhat disappointed, yet not surprised, when I see the headlines ‘blaming’ various fractions of a property transaction as the...

Estate Agent Today's good friend Christopher Watkin recently carried out a video interview with Glynis Frew, the well-known former managing director...

The entirety of the property market could be enhanced by embracing all-in-one moving and streamlining processes, according to The ValPal Network. This,...

The last week has been dramatic even by the standards of UK politics, with a Cabinet and junior minister rebellion bringing...

A senior member of the Home Buying and Selling Group has insisted work on reforms is ongoing despite the ministerial merry-go-round...

I look back on when my dad helped me buy my first car and shared his pearls of wisdom on what...

There have been many articles about ‘digitising upfront information’, following the publication of DLUHC’s Levelling-Up white paper and National Trading Standards...

First-time buyers have admitted to feeling overwhelmed or scared to talk to estate agents about the homebuying process. A study of 2,000...

If there’s not a book called ‘The Art of Collaboration’ then there should be. Update: a quick Google search shows there...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

In this Q&A, I catch up with Jesper With-Fogstrup, chief executive officer of Smoove (formerly ULS Technology until a very recent...

A government aim to improve the home buying process by making Local Land Charge search results instantly available is well underway,...

They say that in fashion, if you wait for long enough, clothes that are hanging at the back of your wardrobe...

A number of pro-active conveyancers are joining a new conveyancing directory being set up by one of the leading figures in...

PropTech solutions have continued to ingratiate themselves in both the forefront of an agency within advertising mediums and in the backend...

Those aficionados of the Sound of Music will recognise the tag line above. It came to my mind when thinking about...

The OneDome group websites - OneDome itself and nethouseprices - are launching their largest ever advertising campaign. It will target buyers and...

HM Revenue & Customs has been warned by financial experts that its latest crackdown on stamp duty abuse could make the...

In the last two years digital Property Logbooks for our homes have moved from concept to reality with almost a quarter...

A leading property lawyer says some agents will struggle to meet the demand for more ‘material information’ put forward by Trading...

Industry figures have come out in favour of the long-term programme of new compulsory information to be contained on property listings. From...

‘Knowledge is power’ goes the old saying, and one variation on that theme is a quote from academic, Robert Boyce, who...

A young entrepreneur has won an award for creating an online service making it simpler for couples to buy their first...

The government’s call for a pack of property information to be made available upfront during the sales process has been welcomed...

The government’s Levelling Up White Paper, released today, contains an unexpected and shock commitment - to create a new 'lite' version...

Estate Agent Today understands that the civil servant who has been at the heart of plans to reform the house buying...

It really is beginning to look a lot like Christmas – just a week to go now. Presents all wrapped and...

With 2022 swiftly approaching, businesses in the property industry are likely to be reflecting on the trials and tribulations that have...

Despite the progress made in so many areas, particularly in terms of leasehold reform – although we are calling upon the...

PropTech has seen a surge in uptake over the last few years for several reasons – be it the Covid-19 pandemic...

The ESTAS – often known as the property world’s version of the Oscars – returns as an in-person event this Friday...

The right technology can reassure agents that transactions will complete on time - vital to retaining business following the end of the...

A video interview claims to spill the beans on how sales progression can be accelerated by three to four weeks. Estate agent...

The recent stamp duty holiday and the subsequent conveyancing logjam this triggered has acted as a wakeup call for the industry....

I’m sorry to break this to you but in 10 days’ time it will be autumn - and we will have...

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

Agents have been told in new government guidance that the liftings of some Covid restraints in wider society “does not mark...

In this week’s In Conversation Today, we have another industry big-hitter and one of the most high-profile female leaders in property...

A new Home Buyer App has been launched by the Mortgage Advice Bureau in a bid to educate first time buyers...

Ben Ridgway gives his views on the current market, material information and PropTech for agents. What is your current view of the...

The government and property industry have been talking about it for a long time, and there have been numerous initiatives introduced...

The race to complete home sales before the stamp duty holiday came to an end on June 30 has created what...

The growth of the internet and technology has transformed virtually every aspect of our lives, including how we approach the property...

The Trading Standards agency team has outlined to Estate Agent Today the process it will follow to improve what it calls...

TM Group and sales progression solution mio have signed up as partners for the 2021 ESTAS Forum & Awards, sponsored by...

With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...

A surveyors group has launched a new ‘Home Review’ service which it claims will identify structural problems which create an immediate...

We are just over one year on from the day our lives truly changed, when the UK went into its first...

The Chancellor’s recent announcement that the stamp duty holiday would be extended for another three months was undoubtedly great news for...

An industry group charged with trying to make house buying simpler and quicker says it’s made a breakthrough on ‘upfront’ information...

‘Many are in complete denial about the time it takes and still think it’s eight to 10 weeks.’ I won’t tell you...

Purplebricks has just appointed its new chief marketing officer, who was most recently global director of restaurants at a food chain. Ben...

A relaunched home buying service says it wants to partner with agents to unlock sales if the housing market deteriorates. The service...

Recent figures emanating from the mortgage and housing market suggest that – since lockdown was ended in mid-May – transaction levels...