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Homebuyers in Bolton are waiting as long as 21 weeks for local authority searches new research shows. Analysis by upfront information pack...

Online agents and outsourced conveyancing panels have been cited as factors delaying property sales in the UK. A trade body has warned...

An independent estate agency has announced that it will extend its role as Bolton Wanderers Associate Partner into the 2022/23 season. Joining...

New research has revealed the regional hotspots where Japanese knotweed has been identified. The data could be of interest to estate agents...

Areas with the biggest house price growth of 2021 have seen the value of homes rise by three times the national...

A new Rich List of the most expensive streets has been revealed by Zoopla.  Kensington Palace Gardens in London holds the title...

The latest easyProperty franchise has landed in Luton, the spiritual home of the easy brand as it’s the place where budget...

The son of an Oscar winner has been named as the latest estate agent working under the easyProperty banner. Damian Wanstall is...

No fewer than seven estate and lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme today. Most of them are now...

Delays with the return of property searches is one key factor for sales taking longer to complete. As conveyancers start to warn...

A conveyancing firm is blaming councils for delays in transactions. Conveyancers have themselves been sharply criticised in recent weeks as the sharp...

It’s been reported that two founders of an estate agency at Leigh in Greater Manchester have been banned until 2025 after...

The year just ending was when the North-South divide in house prices and capital appreciation slammed into reverse gear according to...

Well there’s little doubt that after this week’s weather winter is well on the way - the perfect time for fund-raising...

A PropTech company that monitors search times for transactions says only just over two thirds of them are now completed in...

‘Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains’. So is written on the tombstone of the father...

For many years, the majority of agents have stuck to the tried-and-tested 9am-6pm opening hours framework. But is this now changing,...

Amidst all the Brexit chaos let’s remember that it’s Children In Need day...always a time when Britons’ generosity raises the spirits,...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is consulting members on the creation of a personal statement which they must sign to...

The boss of an electrical company has set up a new estate and letting agency with the help of six-figure funding...

High-profile buying agency Black Brick has highlighted the scale of reductions now being made by sellers of some trophy properties in...

With several agent partner programmes available across the country, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, with...

The best estate and letting agents in the UK were recognised at the prestigious ESTAS luncheon and ceremony, which was held...

Over 1,000 guests celebrated the success of the industry at the 14th annual ESTAS awards on Friday. The event, which is sponsored...

Forecasts are so last year: who anticipated Bowie, Brexit or Balls for example? Quotes, on the other hand, really ARE last year...

The Advertising Standards Authority has intervened in the case of an estate agency using information from Rightmove that was more than...

Buy-to-let landlords may have failed in their recent legal battle against planned government tax relief changes for buy-to-let homes set to...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell has met campaigners to scrap anti-buy to let measures introduced by the Cameron government in the past...

Brexit and the summer may be creating a faltering housing market in places but two agencies are defying any gloom by...

The plummetting pound following the UK’s shock vote to leave the European Union risks creating more money-laundering operations through this country’s...

An estate agent accused of being behind a £300,000 fraud has appeared before Carlisle Crown Court. The Cumbrian News & Star local...

A Cumbrian estate agent has appeared in court charged with 16 counts of fraud. The Cumbrian News & Star newspaper reports that...

As the summer holidays near, we’re continuing to publicise the side of estate agency that rarely presents itself to the public...

An estate agent has been charged by police with 16 counts of fraud. Donald George Anthony Scott, 61, from Bolton Low Houses,...