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For most of us, estate agents are key when it comes to the biggest sales and purchases of our lives. With the...

One of the UK’s largest mortgage lenders has reduced its upper age limit in a blow for home buyers . Halifax is...

Foxtons has described itself as a “lettings-focused” business after announcing the acquisition of rival London agency Ludlow Thompson. The deal is worth...

There have been many articles about ‘digitising upfront information’, following the publication of DLUHC’s Levelling-Up white paper and National Trading Standards...

If you are an easily offended Frankie Valli fan, look away now. A regional agent that was rapped by the Advertising Standards...

An estate agent has hit back at the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after the watchdog banned a poster advertising the firm’s...

The government is considering seizing British property owned by Russian oligarchs on the sanctions list without paying compensation. The Financial Times says Housing...

One of the country’s leading agencies says the recent and expected interest rate rises, and the surging inflation, will not blow...

There’s been another step to make house sales more secure and speedier, with a pilot scheme starting next month. Five major identity...

A PropTech company has won a grant for a project to improve ID verification in the buying and selling process, via...

Conveyancers have considered whether the long-standing ‘caveat emptor’ or buyer beware principle in a property purchase should be replaced by ‘vendor...

A working party of property professionals is being set up to look at whether and how property logbooks could help speed...

There has been scepticism across the industry as to the motives behind an unspecified number of lay-offs and permanent branch closures...

The head of a firm that has been creating digital property log books for well over a decade says the house-moving...

The UK property market can be seen by criminals as an effective vehicle to conceal the proceeds of economic crime. Criminally...

“When an industry is new, still finding its feet, finding its purpose, the tendency is for those few people within it...

The UK PropTech Association (UKPA), of which I am a member of the steering committee, is an organisation with a purpose...

Labour’s housing spokesperson on the London Assembly wants estate agents and mayor Boris Johnson to take money laundering in property more...