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Talk about a wasted opportunity. The Conservative party conference - just finished, and possibly the last one before a General Election -...

The Building Safety Act will cause further delays to the home moving process, a senior industry executive has warned. Rob Hailstone, chief...

With no ease up on the cost of living crisis, understandably many agents’ primary concern is whether or not their tenants...

ANY REPOSSESSION is a tragedy for the person involved, and latest figures indicate the number of victims falling victim is currently...

From the 23 January 2023, the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 came into effect for multi-occupied residential buildings. This is what...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has committed to leasehold reform and fixing cladding issues before the next election. It comes as the Government...

The latest White Paper from the Institute of Residential Property Management (now part of The Property Institute) has called for customers...

It’s the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell fire tragedy, but are high rises any safer today than they were then? On 14th...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced that he is considering extending Margaret Thatcher’s Right-to-Buy scheme, that gives council tenants the chance to...

It’s easy to overestimate the importance of something in one’s own industry or work, but there seems good reason for believing...

An estate agency is shutting for good today following the shock death of its young owner. Last week we reported that Ciaran...

The owner of an estate agency has died suddenly, plunging the local community into shock. Ciaran McGurgan founded Maison Real Estate in...

A popular and respected estate agent in Essex, who also campaigned nationally against homelessness, has died just days after bing diagnosed...

High end estate agency Savills says the imposition of sanctions on Russians, amid new measures obliging overseas buyers to be more...

The market boom goes on, for now at least. In February, house prices rose at their fastest since June 2007 according to...

The government’s new Levelling Up White Paper, revealed this morning includes a radical reshaping of the private rental sector. Section 21 eviction...

One of the founding partners of the well-known agency Slater, Hogg and Howison has died at the age of 76. It was...

A company linked to the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower is being excluded from the government’s Help to Buy scheme, pending the outcome...

A coroner says there is no explanation how an estate agent suffered a cut to his wrist, which led to his...

Hello and welcome to a very special edition of Agents Do Charity - a tribute to someone who has arguably done...

Agents are being urged to be more open to new methods of stopping deals falling through. HBB Solutions - a part exchange...

Hello, and here’s the bad news to get it over with - this is the final Bank Holiday weekend before…Christmas. Now that’s...

Volume house builder Taylor Wimpey has announced a pre-tax profit for the first half of this year of £287.5m - and...

Propertymark has welcomed the move by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick to help make certain leasehold flats more attractive to would-be buyers...

The founder and managing director of FCS Compliance, Jerry Walters, has died suddenly. A statement from the company says he died during...

A senior figure in the UK activities of the Keller Williams estate agency has died at the shockingly young age of...

A family is appealing for help in tracing the whereabouts of a motorhome stolen from outside their house at Whitstable in Kent...

A well respected professional footballer who became an estate agent in his adopted home town has died at the young age...

Labour has entered the cladding controversy by calling a vote in the House of Commons to force government action on the...

The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’ we spoke so much of a few weeks and months ago,...

A young Kent estate agent has died after contracting Covid 19 at the age of 28.  Chris Cane was branch manager of...

A young estate agent who set up his own online auction service took his own life after a long period suffering...

Ed Mead has joined a growing chorus demanding government action on the cladding crisis. He is one of the industry’s leading figures from...

An open verdict has been returned on the death of an estate agent whose body was spotted just 10 metres away...

One of the highest profile and most widely respected figures in the British property industry has died suddenly. He was 72. Tony...

The death has been announced of one of the country’s leading campaigners against the injustices of the leasehold system, Louie Burns. Burns...

Local media in the south west are reporting that a Torquay estate agent took his own life after telling his partner...

The chief executive of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, set up to commemorate the murdered estate agency, has died at the age...

The teenage daughter of the co-founder of telephone answering service Moneypenny has been found dead on holiday on Mallorca. Sky News reports...

An estate agent in the west country has died, aged just 28. Adam Reed worked for the Smart Estate Agent, a fixed-fee...

Britain lives in fundamentalist black-and-white times - all the more surprising when the country's most divisive point of contention sits on...

One of the west country’s best known estate agencies is about to enter a new era – led by a managing...

An estate agent in London has received a posthumous honour as an organ donor. The Chiswick W4 Local news website says Jordan...

Paul Lamplugh, the father of estate agent Suzy who was presumed murdered 33 years ago, has died - tragically, without ever...

Local councils say there must be an immediate and fast-moving review of building regulations in the light of the Grenfell Tower...

Housing minister Alok Sharma has blocked some of his Twitter followers, accusing them of “abusive language”.   Sharma has a relatively modest 9,169 followers...

Today we’re publishing what we think is our longest-ever list of charitable activities being conducted by agents and their supporters -...

In case we didn’t learn the lesson last time around, we appear to be on the brink of a refresher course...