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Homebuyers are being gazumped due to lengthy property chains and delays in securing a mortgage, it’s been claimed. Research from Market Financial...

Buyers are being urged to be on alert about being gazumped amid a rise in the practice. The HomeOwners Alliance has highlighted...

A survey of homebuyers has found overwhelming support for a legal ban on gazumping. A mortgage lender - MFS - spoke with...

Relationships between conveyancers and estate agents have improved since the manic stamp duty-holiday driven days of the pandemic, but it is...

April looks set to go down as the busiest month for house sales of the year.  And with record numbers of properties predicted...

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 leading reason for property sales falling through is gazumping, according to new research from Comparethemarket. Over the past year, nearly two-fifths of...

A new property board game called Gazumped aims to rival Monopoly but reflect a much more realistic view of how the house...

The proportion of sales that fell through at the worst point of this year was 52 per cent it’s been claimed. However...

The scale of the problems facing many prospective buyers has been set out in a survey showing as many as one-third...

A new survey suggests that an overwhelming majority of householders want a legal ban on gazumping. The result is likely to be...

Gazumping is alive and well in much of the country, despite the slowdown in the property market, according to new research...

The latest research from online estate agency Emoov shows at least one silver lining to the current Brexit-hit housing market -...

Between October and December 2017, some £822 million worth of UK residential property was sold at auction, according to the Essential...

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

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a new survey suggests the proportion of London buyers who have lost out on a purchase because of gazumping...

As with finance broking, there can be many frustrations that come with being an estate agent – I perhaps don’t need...

In this business you get used to dealing with regular customer and third-party feedback, input, and (occasionally) complaints.  Much like the agency market...

Two radio stations have announced dedicated property shows - both starting this month. Martin Roberts, the established property pundit familiar to many...

We’re all familiar with 'gazumping' – most us have been 'gazumped' or indeed been the perpetrators of this practice, for it...

The number of buyers being gazumped has fallen by 40% since October 2014, according to online estate agent eMoov. The agency surveyed...