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The majority of UK adults find buying a home more stressful than selling but many are unaware of who an estate...

HAVING spent decades closely following the UK and American property markets, I’ve seen and read many reports comparing the two.  But...

As money laundering compliance marks its twentieth year, more and more estate agents are being fined for breaches of HMRC’s ID...

Recent research estimated that up to £100 billion is being stolen in the UK each year, with much of it due...

The issue of conditional selling in estate agency has hit Westminster. There have been several reports in recent months about agents requiring...

In this latest article from the team at Iceberg Digital, they review the recent Estate Agency X 8, 2023 On 23rd March, the...

The property industry may be going to great effort to digitise and improve the process of buying and selling a home...

Given their leading role in the recent upfront information revolution, interest in the work of the National Trading Standards Estate &...

Estate agents use their experience, knowledge, and connections to help people to sell properties at the best prices. Working in this field...

For an unregulated industry, agents have an awful lot of regulations to deal with. For example, there’s the mandatory membership of a...

The most senior Trading Standards officer policing the agency industry says he hopes the public will ask about referral fees in...

The controversial proposal by a PropTech start up to charge potential viewers of properties to let or for sale has been...

“I’ve got 47 years of experience as an agent. Do I still have to get a qualification?” asked one attendee at...

How many of you are in favour of estate agents being licenced? Would most agents rather not be overseen by a regulator...

With somewhere in the region of 1.2 million property sales transactions being completed each year, and 16,500 estate agents actively vying...

You may be right in thinking that Brexit has dominated the thinking of the government in the last three years. However,...

A recent survey conducted by comparison website GetAgent found that traditional high street agents have been given a firm thumbs up...

It’s clear that some agents are not fans of Trading Standards officers, described in the comments sections of the trade press...

The head of the new Trading Standards authority regulating estate agents says Online firms are treated exactly the same as High...

Estate Agent Today has been given details of the new National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agents Team - the body...

The jury appears to be out on whether the new enforcement body for estate and lettings agents will be resourced sufficiently...

A new team has been set up to police all estate and letting agency legislation including the upcoming tenants' fees ban. The...

There was a time when the mere mention of the financial services industry brought with it scorn and mistrust. The issues arising...

The end of 2018 was a bit of a rocky time for online estate agents. Yet only a few years ago...

Estate Agent Today is 10 years old this weekend. We hope you’ll agree that’s a cause for celebration and a great...

An outspoken estate agent has given the government a clear message - get off our backs , ease the red tape...

The Estate Agent’s Act 1979 is rapidly approaching its 40th anniversary, yet still agents make mistakes and can all too easily...

In recent years the mortgage industry has gone through some testing times. Recession and regulation have led to more stringent lending...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team based in Powys has revealed that its cases under investigation include apparent offences of...

A month ago we ran a quiz compiled by compliance training expert David Beaumont - and the results do not make...

There is a substantial amount of misunderstanding over this question, which needs clarifying.   In general terms, the Money Laundering Regulations require...

What is the biggest change you’ve seen in the agency industry during your time at TPO?  For me, the biggest change has...

The consumer is King and to protect sellers and buyers' best interests estate and letting agents have to operate in the...

A new ‘enforcement toolkit’ has been designed to assist local authority trading standards teams beef up its policing of local estate...