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The National Leasehold Campaign’s (NLC) heroic journey to get reform of the controversial tenure type on the statute book has hit...

A well-known Surrey estate agent has rebranded. Burns & Webber is rebranding to adopt its parent company’s name Curchods. The four Burns &...

Author and broadcaster Katie Piper is set to take to the stage at the Propertymark One Conference at the ExCel London...

One of Scotland’s leading legal and estate agency, Pacitti Jones, is continuing to expand. This week it has snapped up Tip Top...

Property checks can be the bane of a letting agent’s life if left unchecked. Throw in the winter weather, and you’ve...

Every agent likes to have their phones ringing off the hook. So London agent Robert Irving Burns must have been excited when...

Leading leasehold experts have sharply criticised the much-hyped reforms announced by the government last week. The Leasehold Group of Companies - formerly led by...

Fledgling portal Boomin - launching later this month - has announced another 10 independent regional agencies as founder members. This includes its...

There are high hopes that the new stamp duty holiday will make an already busy market even busier - but not...

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

There’s been a broad welcome from agents and other industry organisations for the latest report from the Competition and Markets Authority...

The government is being urged to make commonhold ownership compulsory on all new apartments - and the move could even begin a...

Hello - if it’s Monday it’s PJT day, so welcome to the latest update on key moves within our industry. Let us...

A leasehold reform campaigner claims estate agents face “growing calls to be held accountable for mis-selling leasehold properties.” Louie Burns, managing director...

A London estate agency says a new scheme of apartments being launched for sale this weekend will be the first ever...

A 10 point manifesto to drive forward leasehold reform has been published by prominent campaigner Louie Burns, of The Leasehold Solutions Group. The 10...

A fraudster who claimed to be an estate agent has been jailed for four years after conning vulnerable women into giving...

A leasehold reform campaigner says government proposals risk creating a two-tier market and do nothing to assist leaseholders already hit by...

Hello there - if it’s Friday it’s Agents Do Charity, and as we prepare for a hot weekend for Glastonbury revellers...

A firm supporting leaseholders across the UK says the ongoing Competition and Markets Authority probe should “punish” what it calls “rip off...

The leasehold scandal continues to generate plenty of column inches, with fresh stories emerging almost daily of people living in unsellable...

The leasehold scandal has received plenty of press coverage, with horror stories of people living in homes that are impossible to...

Almost as soon as the government yesterday made its latest announcement to outlaw rogue leasehold deals, the measure was branded “pathetic. More...

A new website has been set up specifically to help leasehold flat owners who have been served a Section 5 Notice...

A leasehold reform campaigner has called on the government to ensure it publishes its report on leasehold reform before the summer recess at...

A leasehold reform campaigning group is warning that “it is likely to be many years” before promised leasehold reform becomes law. Leasehold...

We think about technology all the time. At least, I do. And there’s nothing left in property that technology hasn’t touched...

Home owners seeking lease extensions may now have to pay more as a result of a controversial judgement handed down by...

A specialist leasehold enfranchisement firm has branded government leasehold reforms as "incredibly weak". In an announcement lost in the noise following Damian Green’s sacking,...

In the UK, there are over 3.9 million homes situated in off-grid areas with no access to mains gas, so it’s...

Thanks so much for sending in more photographs of your branches as they prepare for Halloween. We have some here but want...

You saw it, right? This article from Monday’s Guardian? It says that one in five estate agents are at risk of...

A leasehold enfranchisement expert wants government action over what he calls the "forgotten casualties" of the recent ground rent scandal.    Louie Burns,...

The Conservative and Labour party manifestos do not go far enough to tackle problems with the leasehold system. That’s the view of...

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to our galleries of Christmas agency decorations, festive jumpers and Mannequin Challenges during the build...

Just a few days before Christmas now but we’re still receiving images of your festive fun - thanks so much for...

A firm is warning of “a wave of litigation from home owners who were given inadequate advice from their solicitors or...

The possibility of short-term falling house prices caused by Brexit may be good news for the UK’s four million leasehold flat...

Curchods, the privately-owned, 21-branch Surrey agency which also trades as Burns and Webber has appointed a new group managing director. Michael Ansell...

It’s Halloween weekend but the spirit that burns in many estate agents is a force for good not evil - as...