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Trade and representative bodies representing the legal, surveying, estate agency and property management sectors, including the Conveyancing Association, have launched the...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has arranged a new pilot scheme for a group of lawyers and conveyancers to...

Trade and representative bodies representing the legal, surveying, estate agency and property management sectors have launched the fifth iteration of the...

Borrowers are currently rolling off relatively favourable two-year fixed-rate deals agreed at the start of 2022, but the pain from higher...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) is seeking feedback from agents on proposals that it feels will “revolutionise moving home...

Estate agency has changed. No longer is it required to sit in a high street office working the old way. Provide a...

The term mixed-tenure development usually refers to residential developments where different residential tenures are provided on the same site. Typically, tenure was...

The chairman of the Residential Logbook Association (RLBA) has queried the relevance of a new Government-backed property group focused on digital...

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...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has formed an independent industry body, the Open Property Data Association (OPDA), for companies...

The Home Buying & Selling Technology Group (HBSG) has launched the latest version of the Property Data Trust Framework following live...

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

Trade and representative bodies representing the legal, surveying, estate agency and property management sectors have launched the fourth iteration of the...

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

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has announced a new update to the Leasehold Property Enquiries (LPE1) form, which it...

National Conveyancing Week has kicked off from today. The awareness-raising week features a series of in-person, online and pre-recorded events aimed at...

Agents have begun trialling a new common technology framework devised by a committee within the Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG)...

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

Estate Agent Today's good friend Christopher Watkin recently carried out a video interview with Glynis Frew, the well-known former managing director...

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

‘Knowledge is power’ goes the old saying, and one variation on that theme is a quote from academic, Robert Boyce, who...

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

The recent stamp duty holiday and the subsequent conveyancing logjam this triggered has acted as a wakeup call for the industry....

In this week’s In Conversation Today, we have another industry big-hitter and one of the most high-profile female leaders in property...

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

The race to complete home sales before the stamp duty holiday came to an end on June 30 has created what...

With the Government announcement this week of another national lockdown across England amid the surging coronavirus infections, it once again puts...

‘Many are in complete denial about the time it takes and still think it’s eight to 10 weeks.’ I won’t tell you...

Recent debate about urgent need for reform and better collaboration within the property industry, has once again come under the spotlight...

Recent figures emanating from the mortgage and housing market suggest that – since lockdown was ended in mid-May – transaction levels...

It’s been an unexpected year for the property market, shaped by the effects of the pandemic. We didn’t quite anticipate the...

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

The government is jeopardising the success of the housing market relaunch through the inflexibility of the furlough scheme, claims a group...

If it’s really the case that estate agents’ offices could be in the category of High Street premises first allowed to...

Now we’re well into the second month of the year, we have reached a crucial point in the ongoing plans to...

The Law Society has announced that there will be a new TA6 Property Information Form launching next week, on Friday February...

Rightmove and Zoopla have been working with key figures from government and the agency and conveyancing industries on how to reform...

The group charged with pioneering Reservation Agreements in the house buying process admits both the industry and the public are split...

It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...

First details have emerged of the information vendors may have to provide up-front In future transactions if government house buying reforms...

When it comes to major issues confronting housing, and in particular the direction that the government would like to take the...

Annoying isn’t it. You take on a stunning property, agree a compelling asking price and your Vendor is desperate to get the...