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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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Estate Agent Today understands that the civil servant who has been at the heart of plans to reform the house buying...

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....

I’m sorry to break this to you but in 10 days’ time it will be autumn - and we will have...

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

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

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

With property transactions taking longer than ever and many people operating at capacity, it is easy to overlook the progress made,...

An industry group charged with trying to make house buying simpler and quicker says it’s made a breakthrough on ‘upfront’ information...

Another attempt is being made to introduce property logbooks to the selling and buying process, and agents are invited to play a...

The cross-sector group looking at reforming the sales process has agreed a new pledge which it says introduces greater transparency for...

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...

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

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...

[Estate Agent Today was ‘off air’ for some of Wednesday and most of Thursday thanks to technical problems - we apologise...

Reservation Agreements are the subject of the moment in the agency industry. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is to...

There are many adjectives that can be applied to Boris Johnson, probably very few of them complimentary, but there’s one that...

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

The reform of the buying process is to take centre stage at a special conference called Bold Legal LIVE! taking place...

It may well seem that the government is pre-occupied with one issue, and one issue alone. While preparations for Brexit take up a...

Representatives from estate and lettings agencies as well as professional organisations have formed The Home Buying And Selling Group with a...