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Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Paul Halliwell and my VMC business card says “Executive...

Proper implementation of material Information across the estate agency sector could reduce the amount of lost or delayed commission due to...

Three quarters of home movers experienced increased levels of stress as a direct result of their last home move, ranking it...

Rightmove has revealed details of its latest anti-money laundering (AML) webinar. The next event, in partnership with FCS Compliance, is titled 10...

Prime London property sales are taking longer to go through once under offer, which is creating a vicious cycle of fall-throughs,...

Detached homes in Wales are the slowest property types to sell across the UK and take an average of 92 days...

Almost one in five vendors admit to having failed to disclose disputes with neighbours to prospective buyers when selling their home,...

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

Fall-throughs are costing home sellers an estimated £909m a year, according to new analysis. Upfront information provider Home Sale Pack has analysed...

The Law Society is facing backlash from conveyancers after issuing new property information reforms that take account of Trading Standards’ material...

The ripple effect of a property sale that falls through is, without exception, one of the most frustrating and disappointing events...

Reading the news on Estate & Letting Agent Today every day (as I’m sure you all do, too), there appears to...

Following the release of Material Information Parts B & C, iamproperty’s Product Manager, Tania Bonesi, shares insights on how Estate Agents...

Fall-throughs are costing estate agents an estimated £63m purely based on the cost of having to remarket a property and host...

The Able Agent has launched the first ever general course about the structure of property – aimed at all types of...

Fall-throughs are estimated to have cost UK buyers and sellers £270m during the third of last year, research suggests. It marks the...

The Bank of England maintained interest rates at 5.25% yesterday, raising hope among agents that this would boost buyer confidence and...

Go back a hundred years and property transactions were a much simpler affair. A group of people could get together in...

Home-moving platform MoveReady has launched a new game to raise awareness of new material information rules and help agents, buyers and...

The number of property transactions estimated to have collapsed across the UK market has started to climb after two quarters in...

As an Estate Agent it’s important to be able to interpret and understand the information that a Title Deed document presents...

New data from respected consultancy TwentyEA showed that the market is proving unexpectedly resilient - and in the case of new...

Parts B and C of Material Information guidance are on the horizon and expected to come into play this autumn. I caught...

Almost two-thirds of home sellers who have sold a home within the past year experienced delays when doing so, research reveals. A...

Property data in the UK is mined from a labyrinth of sources such as local authorities, various government departments and private...

Fortune favours the brave, as the saying goes. So, when you consider how upfront material information can and does make the...

Ever taken on a property where the sale has got tangled up in problems arising from the title register? It’s a...

Fall throughs are estimated to have cost UK estate agents £1.27bn in 2022, new research suggest. Upfront information provider Moverly looked at...

A property data firm claims to have evidence showing agents who fail to provide upfront information are more likely to suffer...

Providing material information upfront could help agents charge higher fees and even reduce their carbon footprint, while those not complying could...

Agency feedback platform The ESTAS Group has launched a new tool designed to help estate agents by collecting vital insights from...

The most common time for a property sale to fall through is in the second week after the sale is agreed,...

Upfront material information is now firmly on the property industry’s radar, with Trading Standards CPR regulations expected to move towards disclosing...

THE PROPERTY market continues to hold pretty firm - despite fears voiced by many that 2023 would herald a crash in...

The dreaded ‘C word’ – compliance – has been facing Estate Agents for years now and it’s not going anywhere. Looking ahead...

The number of fall-throughs declined during the final three months of 2022 but this trend may not last, new data suggests. Analysis...

I was delighted to read recently about the creation of the first ever ‘register of logbooks’ in the UK, which offers...

As an estate agent, you know that securing the sale is just step one of a successful journey. But with issues...

According to the recent industry research report ‘Back to the Future’ from tmgroup, mio and CDS 40% of property transaction delays...

As is generally the case, we didn’t start out with solutions, we started with questions…. two, actually. The first was, ‘Why does...

The property industry's self-destructive, point-scoring way of working just doesn’t cut it. When low stock means low cash flow low, agents and...

We are now well into 2023 and, while there have been a huge number of steps taken towards a digital future...

Proptech firm iamproperty has launched a new legal preparation module to its movebutler onboarding and sales progression platform. The aim is to...

Consumer demand for auction can no longer be ignored. Month after month this alternative method of sale sees increased uptake as...

The number of fall-throughs hit a five-year high during the third quarter of 2022, research suggests. Analysis of TwentyCi fall through data...

Happy New Year! I hope you’ve recharged the batteries and have a shiny list of resolutions to make 2023 as successful...

As we get ever closer to 2023, this final Natter of the year is dedicated to the five biggest property moments of...

The estate agency sector is close to being hit by a fall-through per minute as an industry veteran warns that the...

As economic signs increasingly point to a contraction in the property market, competition for new business will inevitably heat up. But...

Winkworth has predicted a sales demand rebound before the Christmas slowdown. A trading update from the agency franchise brand revealed that new...

Increased conveyancing fees would speed-up transaction times, it has been claimed. Iain McKenzie, chief executive of The Guild of Property Professionals suggests...

The housing market isn’t definitely facing a 2008-style cliff-edge moment, Knight Frank claims. New commentary from the agent has asked if October’s weak...

The sales progression function is what binds the whole property transaction together and the importance of effective sales progression in the...

The number of property sales falling through has increased for the first time since the height of the pandemic market boom...

An exclusive partnership has been agreed between OnTheMarket and MIL Outsource to provide the property website’s agents with a revenue protection...

Buyer demand has dropped by a fifth in the fortnight since the mini-Budget while supply has increased from worried homeowners, Zoopla...

Despite all the recent speculation surrounding the housing market after the badly-received mini-Budget and regular talk of a possible slowdown, new...

Chain management tool, ViewMyChain has been integrated with agency software provider Reapit. The integration means Reapit users will have a single sign...

The Land Registry has set out ambitious plans to automate up to 70% of all updates to its register by 2025...

Smart conveyancers are making themselves indispensable to estate agents by doing their due diligence for them. Until now, estate agents and conveyancers...

The relationship between estate agents and conveyancers is undoubtedly a complex one and has certainly had ‘its moments’ over the years,...

Lettings has helped drive Foxtons revenue and profits for the first half of the year, a company update has revealed. The listed...

I look back on when my dad helped me buy my first car and shared his pearls of wisdom on what...

Buyer issues have been cited as the main cause of fall-throughs, according to new research. A survey of more than 940 agents,...

Referral fees, lack of trust and too much email have been identified as barriers to greater collaboration between conveyancers and estate...

Record numbers of buyers are now purchasing homes chain-free research suggests. Analysis by Hamptons has found that an increase in the share...

You’re probably up to your neck at the start of a busy spring market but I’d hope there’s one thing most...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said it may consider complaints about ‘misleading SSTC listings’ on portals but suggests it may...

Estate agents and conveyancers have agreed on better working relationships at the first collaborative event between the two professions. There has been...

A survey of 700 borrowers by a high net worth lender suggest almost four out of 10 have lost a mortgage...

A prominent industry supplier has produced startling statistics about the numbers of fall throughs in just the first 10 weeks or...

Too many leaseholders will fall through the cracks of the government’s “piecemeal measures” to combat the cladding crisis.  That’s the view of...

Of the many industry buzzwords, I suspect “upfront information” was up there as one of the most widely used in 2021....

In the last two years digital Property Logbooks for our homes have moved from concept to reality with almost a quarter...

A bid to regulate second home ownership in part of the UK through changes to planning policy will add complexity and...

Industry figures have come out in favour of the long-term programme of new compulsory information to be contained on property listings. From...

Fall throughs remain a significant problem with transaction collapses costing buyers and sellers a wasted £880m in 2021 according to new...

The government’s call for a pack of property information to be made available upfront during the sales process has been welcomed...

The government’s Levelling Up White Paper, released today, contains an unexpected and shock commitment - to create a new 'lite' version...

Agents are losing tens of thousands of pounds each - in some cases even more - because of the volume of...

The ESTAS Forum scheduled for March says its aim is to encourage agents and conveyancers to work more closely together.  “There doesn’t...

You’ve heard me bang on about the wonder of reservation agreements for some time now, but it’s definitely the case that...

Rightmove is to try to help potential buyers get their finances in order much earlier in the transaction process, to reduce...

With 2022 swiftly approaching, businesses in the property industry are likely to be reflecting on the trials and tribulations that have...

Agents are being urged to be more open to new methods of stopping deals falling through. HBB Solutions - a part exchange...

Boomin has launched a new tool - Chainmaker - which it claims cuts fall throughs and introduces agents to ‘hot buyers’. The software...

Property experts have joined forces to call for faster and more secure transactions.  The PropTech and conveyancing voices have united in warning...

There are plenty in the estate agency and lettings world who don’t like the concept of Airbnb and similar enterprises. But they...

The Modern Method of Auction (MMoA), also known as Conditional auction, can sometimes get a bad rap. However, much of the...

Remarkably, just 11 per cent of property sales fell through in the third quarter of this year as buyers raced to beat...

The right technology can reassure agents that transactions will complete on time - vital to retaining business following the end of the...

One of the UK’s oldest estate agency firms has expanded into two new territories.  Nock Deighton was established in Shropshire in 1831...

A bulk quick buy company has surveyed purchasers who have been deterred from continuing their transactions to discover what the biggest...

Last month it was reported that up to 500,000 people had been ‘pinged’ by the NHS in a week. While the...

The estate agents’ trade body has set out three ways conveyancers can further help the sales process. Propertymark has made the suggestions...

Viewings are in the news right now and with good reason.  As the impact of the stamp duty holiday fades, and transaction...

The already-high fall-through rate for transactions is likely to be supercharged by the impending end of the tapered stamp duty holiday...

The first stamp duty holiday deadline has now passed, and we can all sigh a slight relief after the sheer numbers...

Ben Ridgway gives his views on the current market, material information and PropTech for agents. What is your current view of the...

Rightmove estimates that 1.3m buyers have benefitted from the stamp duty holidays across Great Britain since they were announced in July...