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Propertymark has urged the Land Registry to provide more accessible and affordable services to its members.  Responding to a call for evidence...

With reform of the home buying and selling process as crucial as it's ever been, and disrupters like Coadjute and PEXA...

RICS has appointed Lord Michael Bichard to lead a wide-ranging independent review into the governance and purpose of the institution. The review...

The independent QC asked to prepare a report into the financial conduct row at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has...

The government and property industry have been talking about it for a long time, and there have been numerous initiatives introduced...

Agents’ views are being sought by Propertymark on how best to improve the housing supply in Northern Ireland. The province’s Department for...

The independent review into the governance of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is calling for comments. Earlier this year RICS was the...

Some 30 tax documents have been released by HM Treasury this afternoon - a mix of responses to past consultations, proposals...

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

The recent ARLA Propertymark conference featured a hugely interesting line-up of speaks and session during a watershed time for the lettings...

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

The civil servant leading work to reform the house buying has revealed key areas of government thinking - with a ban on...

It seems a lifetime ago but in fact we’re approaching just the first anniversary since the government triggered its Call for...

You will notice that there is a new author for this regular column for Estate Agent Today. Last month I was...

National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team and two of the three industry redress organisations have launched a survey to measure the...

As housing market stakeholders we’ve all had a month or so to try and digest the government’s own response to its...

Ever wondered what it’s like to be on the frontline of property journalism? Well, wonder no more, as our very own...

Given the level of resource and energy being put behind upping the number of first-time buyers in the UK, you might...

  More details have emerged of the government’s proposals to enhance estate agency regulation, regulate referral fees, offer guides for buyers and...

At any given moment it’s difficult to say which issue dominates our marketplace, but I think it’s fair to acknowledge during...

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is stepping up the pressure on government to speed up the delivery of a new public register...

The body that regulates conveyancers says controversial referral fees should be disclosed earlier in the house buying process - but they...

A conveyancers’ trade body has told the government that it wants the house buying process to be modernised by having estate...

A round table will take place tomorrow between some of the country’s leading PropTech experts and the British Property Foundation to...

A large part of the DCLG’s Call for Evidence on the home buying and selling process focuses on the role of...

The government's call for evidence from agents and others in a bid to improve the house buying process has pushed some...

Some 12 per cent of transactions in England and Wales so far this year have been subject to gazumping, being sold...

An influential consumer group has responded to the government’s commitment to reform the house buying process by advocating legally-binding reservation agreements...

Crowdfunding is nothing new. As I pointed out in a previous Natter, it dates back centuries, playing a part in the...

The government should take a close look at gazundering as well as gazumping in its review of the house sales process,...

The Conveyancing Association says some of its members are piloting HIPs-style Digital Home Reports in a bid to reduce fall-throughs and...

Conveyancers and the speed of local council searches have come in for criticism as details have emerged of the government’s consultation...

There has been a wide range of views from trade bodies and individual agents on the government’s surprise ‘call for evidence’...

The government has launched a consultation this weekend calling for evidence on how to make the home buying process “cheaper, faster...

The political ebb and flow continues - seemingly with all the subtlety of a Boris Johnson rugby tackle on a 10-year...

With an anticipated “Call for Evidence” from the Dept of Business Innovation & Skills looking into the home-buying experience ETSOS is...

The Tory Reform Group has launched a public call for evidence seeking “innovative policy proposals to address the two-fold challenge of...

Nearly three quarters of people who have sold or bought a property deem it more stressful than having a child or...

As a service provider to both Estate Agents and Conveyancing Solicitors from one platform, ETSOS sits in a fairly unique position...

The Conveyancing Association is setting up a working group to consider how to increase transparency, cut unnecessary delays and costs, and...

The government is staying tight-lipped about it for the moment but there may be a major shake-up in house buying on...

I’m sure I’m not the only estate agent confused by the Government’s approach to residential property ownership. Many of the current ministerial...