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Owners of second homes who abuse a tax loophole by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets will be forced to...

New figures from HM Treasury have revealed that businesses, including a number of major agencies, have returned £1.3 billion in furlough...

A plea has been made to the government to help small companies and stop letting online firms off the hook. The Federation...

A prominent property consultancy is urging the government to ensure that holiday home owners pay more tax.  Colliers claims local authorities are...

Another major agency group has agreed to repay substantial sums it claimed under the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, introduced to...

Foxtons is facing another shareholder revolt over the bonus being given to its chief executive despite taking £7m in state Covid...

Almost a year ago the government announced that estate and lettings agencies were to be included in the business rates relief...

The Chancellor has announced new measures to help businesses in the light of the lockdown announced in the past 24 hours. The...

NAEA Propertymark has made a series of demands on the government in the light of the Coronavirus crisis.  In a formal written...

Agencies, many of which campaigned vigorously to be included in the business rates holiday announced in March by the government, have...

We'd hoped it was good news but in fact it's just good-news-yet-to-come. The Savills office in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Coronavirus crisis in...

Estate and lettings agencies that have closed temporarily as a result of the Coronavirus lockdown are to be to exempted from...

The property franchise company Belvoir Lettings has laid off 15 workers from its Grantham headquarters - and warns there may be...