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Portals are aiming to boost consumer awareness of new material information rules rather than refusing non-compliant listings. Agency listings have been required...

The head of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) has suggested the material listings rules should be...

Why the urgency? Because the appetite is strong. Research by the Conveyancing Association reports that 98% of consumers are overwhelmingly in...

Millions of people use online property portals every year to conduct their property search, whether it be for sales or for...

Agency trade bodies have backed the “clarity” provided by Trading Standards after it deemed “price on application” listings unlawful. It comes as...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) deemed yesterday that the use of POA or “price on application”...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) has deemed that the use of POA or “price on application”...

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

Property portals are preparing to support agents in complying with a new era of upfront material information. From the end of May,...

From the beginning of April, long-awaited rules from the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) came into effect....

Trading Standards has advised agents to update listings once they reach the "sold subject to contract" (SSTC) stage. It comes after legal...

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

Trading Standards and the government have jointly announced compulsory new data which must appear on property listings. A property's council tax band or...

The work of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team is “vital” it claims - and the case of the...

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

A high-profile London agency is asking the police and property industry bodies including Trading Standards to investigate a fake company posing under...

The latest review by the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team into referral fees places the outdated practice of...

Customers must be told about third party referral fees when buying or selling a home says the National Trading Standards Estate...

The Property Ombudsman’s office is still receiving 40 to 50 calls a day from the public, even though most transactions with...

Future complaints about property raffles by individual home owners seeking to avoid estate agency fees will in future be handled by...

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

The reform of the buying process is to take centre stage at a special conference called Bold Legal LIVE! taking place...

Estate and letting agents are being urged to check that they are signed up with an approved redress scheme that covers...

It’s clear that some agents are not fans of Trading Standards officers, described in the comments sections of the trade press...