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HSBC UK has joined forces with the Open Property Data Association (OPDA) to help improve the homebuying process through the sharing...

A poll of surveyors shows strong support for the idea of pre-sale surveys. When asked whether the new Government should introduce mandatory...

MPs have begun the process of electing the next chairperson of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee in the new Parliament. The chairman...

We’ve probably all had enough of people campaigning in recent weeks but I have to admit to one disappointment with the...

A new estate agency dedicated to improving the house moving process has launched in the Gloucestershire and Worcestershire areas. Founded by James...

Anyone who has ever bought or sold a house, knows the frustration and disappointment when a sale falls through. The excitement of...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak yesterday confirmed a date for the General Election. Voters will go the polls on 4 July, meaning the...

Estate agency regulation is needed to help improve the homebuying and selling process, MPs have been told. The first hearing of the...

MPs are set to begin their inquiry into improving the home buying and selling process today. The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities...

Around one in 10 buyers who failed to get a survey on a property purchase have gone on to find issues...

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

Foxtons’ share price got a mini boost on Monday morning after rumours that the agency brand is preparing for a sale. 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...

MPs have launched an inquiry on improving the home buying and selling process in England. The Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (LUHC)...

OneDome has launched a new advertising campaign along the theme of  '#PaperbagorOneDome'.  The campaign will feature mini campaigns that aim to humorously...

OneDome is expanding its flagship product HomeBuyer Service to include surveying.  The property platform said it now provides a full suite of...

Property professionals have called for the Government to allocate its promised £3m towards improving the home buying and selling process to...

OneDome is offering free digital know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) checks for estate agents using its various home buying services.  The...

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

UK property professionals should look to Norway when assessing how to improve the home buying process, a housing minister has claimed. Speaking...

Everyone’s a pundit these days, aren’t they? And January is pundit season – when a New Year starts, out come the...

Agents should be more picky about their listings during 2024 and focus on sellers that will help speed up sales by...

The 2023 Autumn Budget, amongst its considerable 110 growth measures, contained an important announcement for the property sphere, with £3 million...

Reservation agreement provider Gazeal has partnered with Optimus, Landmark’s panel of conveyancers to offer its services as an option for home...

It was actor Charlies Sheen who said: ‘I have one speed. I have one gear. Go!’ The same might not be said...

The Autumn Statement ended up being silent on Stamp Duty reforms and direct housing market stimulus but there were some nuggets...

A former lawyer has used her own experiences of trying to buy a home to launch a platform that matches homebuyers...

By Kevin Shaw, National Sales Managing Director, Leaders Romans Group As the cost-of-living crisis continues to impact the UK, many of us...

A proposed cut in stamp duty by the Westminster government would be a welcome boost to homebuyers and would need to...

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

As much of the country battened down the hatches for the first storm of the season, there may have been a...

Since the Bank of England base rate started making large jumps around the middle of last year, mortgage rates have increased...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has launched a new document to help firms benefit from the range of digital services available to...

The Government is facing calls to resurrect the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme. The housing support scheme, which provided a Government-backed...

The property transaction in England and Wales is a notoriously slow and fraught process, taking typically 150 days to complete, with...

If we turn the clock back only twenty years, the concept of managing our lives from a handheld device was within...

Client onboarding and verification tool LandmarkAgent has announce a strategic partnership with CRM provider Street.co.uk. The collaboration will enable agency users to...

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

Renters are putting off their buying plans until property becomes more affordable, according to the latest research from The Mortgage Lender...

Now more than ever, property professionals across the sector need to pull together and collaborate more closely to make business gains,...

Coadjute has launched a Digital Property Data Pack service for its users. The pack is designed to cover the requirements of the...

The Labour Party has announced it will be hosting an emergency mortgage summit this week. The summit, happening in London tomorrow, is...

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

With the Bank of England’s rate rise to five per cent, soaring rents, and the cost-of-living crisis, now is the time...

When it comes to the usage, and benefits of, providing upfront material information to all those involved in the home buying...

Industry veteran Tim Main has issued a challenge for agents in the latest attempt to speed up sales and reduce fall-throughs. Main,...

Semi-detached houses are currently the fastest-selling type of property in the UK, research suggests. Analysis of 101,126 house sale transactions by home...

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...

At the recent Home Buying & Selling Group UFI Roadshow in London, it was gratifying to note that panel members and...

A year-long pilot of using upfront material Information by conveyancer Thomas Legal and search provider Conveyancing Data Services, a part of...

A coalition of businesses from across the property industry have united to call on the Government to do more to speed-up...

A company aiming to “disrupt the conventional homebuying space” has raised £8m in a Series A equity funding round. Wayhome offers a...

Yes it should….and we’re getting closer. Where there’s no chain involved, here at AVRillo, we can be ready to exchange contracts in...

Homes have decreased in size every decade since the 1950s, despite house prices rising exponentially, according to new data. Intriguingly the average...

Last week was the first ever National Conveyancing Week, which I hope registered with agents and perhaps you even took up...

Land Registry analysis tool provider Veya has announced a partnership with home buying and selling platform adoor to help speed-up sales. Clients...

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...

Collaborative Conveyancing has won an Innovate UK grant in partnership with the Hartree Centre research facility and completed a fundraising round...

Conveyancers are warning that this week’s Land Registry strikes could have a knock-on effect on property sales once staff return to...

Property professionals have given their backing to the idea of a universal digital identity for buyers and sellers to speed up...

Halifax has recorded the lowest level of annual house price growth for three years. Its latest House Price Index for January 2023...

Industry analyst and and chair of The Home Buying and Selling Group Kate Faulkner, has called for the Government to stop agents being...

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

Fewer first-time buyers got on the property ladder last year but there was an increase in people buying for business purposes,...

Property market analyst and chair of The Home Buying and Selling Group Kate Faulkner was given an OBE in the New...

Surveying is traditionally a male-dominated profession, and many women who have worked in the profession for many years report that at...

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

As we move closer to the end of the year, we invariably begin to think of what 2023 will bring, how...

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

In this guest feature, Ben Bailey, CCO at Even, a mortgage lender for first-time buyers launched this year, provides commentary on the end...

Recent political changes – and there have been quite a few in recent weeks – have brought about something of a...

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

The Government is being urged to take the lead on homebuying reform as conveyancers warn that recruitment issues and lawyer burn-out...

One of the biggest frustrations people have with the home buying and selling process is the amount of time it takes...

Zoopla chief executive Charlie Bryant has revealed aspirations for the portal to play a key role in the home buying process. Speaking...

First off, my own quick tribute to the Queen, who died on Thursday afternoon aged 96. Despite her age and declining...

In this latest Day in the Life of...Natter, I get an insight into one of the most vital cogs of the...

I am somewhat disappointed, yet not surprised, when I see the headlines ‘blaming’ various fractions of a property transaction as the...

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

The entirety of the property market could be enhanced by embracing all-in-one moving and streamlining processes, according to The ValPal Network. This,...

The last week has been dramatic even by the standards of UK politics, with a Cabinet and junior minister rebellion bringing...

A senior member of the Home Buying and Selling Group has insisted work on reforms is ongoing despite the ministerial merry-go-round...

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

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

First-time buyers have admitted to feeling overwhelmed or scared to talk to estate agents about the homebuying process. A study of 2,000...

If there’s not a book called ‘The Art of Collaboration’ then there should be. Update: a quick Google search shows there...

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

Estate agents are in a unique position – we handle the meeting of people’s aspirations probably more than any other profession....

Next month will see new rules around upfront Material Information for property sales and lettings come into force in the UK...

A lack of support to help people onto the property ladder has been highlighted as one factor for the Tory party’s...

The property industry is fortunate in including many great people, doing great work across a range of businesses – from traditional agency...

Property portals are preparing to support agents in complying with a new era of upfront material information. From the end of May,...

In this Q&A, I catch up with Jesper With-Fogstrup, chief executive officer of Smoove (formerly ULS Technology until a very recent...

A government aim to improve the home buying process by making Local Land Charge search results instantly available is well underway,...

They say that in fashion, if you wait for long enough, clothes that are hanging at the back of your wardrobe...

A number of pro-active conveyancers are joining a new conveyancing directory being set up by one of the leading figures in...