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The wife of a jailed banker has agreed to forfeit a house in Knightsbridge worth approximately £14m and a golf club...

Three men who set fire to an estate agency branch in Luton while residents of upstairs flat were home have been...

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...

Success with your chosen CRM solution should not be a one-and-done package. Once you team up with a stellar CRM provider,...

CRMs can be superheroes for your business, but not all of them possess the necessary powers to save the day. As...

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

A man has been jailed for fraud after conning potential property buyers out of nearly £16,000. Jaspal Singh Juttla, 64 of Northwood...

Black mould associated with condensation is becoming an increasing problem for homes in the UK and following the tragic death of...

Dozens of estate agents have been fined a combined total of £519,645 for failing to meet their obligations under anti-money laundering...

Agents have taken a different approach to going on the run for charity this week. Here are some of the latest industry...

The UK government appears to have given sanctioned Russian property owners a get-out-of-jail card valid for six months.  It’s been confirmed that...

A former estate agent described by a judge as being “cruel and manipulative” has been jailed after attacking and attempting to...

The owner of an estate agency in Sussex has been jailed for five years for what a judge has called “an...

A burglar who ransacked an independent agency’s branch office and stole equipment worth almost £2,000 has escaped prison. Bilal Hemmi of Windsor...

With property fraud on the rise and an ever-increasing number of transactions taking place in the lettings sector, having strict anti-money laundering...

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

An agent working for a Countrywide brand in Lancashire has been given a suspended jail sentence after being found guilty of...

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

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

A businessman with links to serious criminals has lost his vast investment property empire worth nearly £10m after a National Crime...

A disgraced former estate agent has paid his victims around £110,000 but must pay another £5,000 or so in the immediate...

Over £73,000 has been stolen from a Countrywide branch by two admin staff making false travel claims and issuing fake invoices. The crimes...

An estate agent who swindled a 69 year old woman out of £5,000 has escaped jail - and has been ordered...

A fraudster who claimed to be an estate agent has been jailed for four years after conning vulnerable women into giving...

An estate agent has been jailed for 19 months and will have to be on the sex offenders’ register for the...

An estate agent who ruthlessly used his position as a prominent figure in the community to win the trust of vulnerable...

Three ultra-high-value London properties cannot be sold while a money laundering investigation continues. The houses have not been identified but were most...

To a sales-focused agency, having a lettings department can sometimes feel like losing control of the business. Recent cases of property management...

An estate agent who stole per £300,000 from an estate agency spent the money on designer goods and expensive holidays -...

An estate agent in the north of England has been confronted by vigilantes who duped him into thinking they were underage girls.  The...

A maverick Cornish estate agent who falsely gave the impression to customers that his business was highly successful has been hit...

A pensioner who committed sexual assaults on two women - one of them an estate agent - has been sent to...

A technology company says that despite government attempts to eradicate money laundering in property transactions, agents and other industry professionals have been left...

An estate agent has been jailed for 18 months after he took out £30,000 worth of loans in the name of...

The Sun reports that a British estate agent spent three weeks in jail in Dubai after sending a highly critical WhatsApp...

An estate agent branded as "thoroughly dishonest" following a Gumtree scam has been jailed for 20 months, suspended for two years....

Stephanie Slater, who was kidnapped while working as an estate agent, has died of cancer aged 50. Ms Slater was held captive...

A Hampshire property investor who failed to declare Capital Gains Tax from the sale of properties evading £157,725, has been jailed...

A man who stole envelopes containing keys from an estate agents’ office by using a pole projected through the letter box...

Local media in Scotland suggest an agency in Motherwell is continuing as normal despite the owner of the business having been...

It seems prop-tech is exploding at a scary rate, and the latest brands are all trying to grab our attention by...

It has been revealed that an estate agent who is serving a five year prison sentence for fraud is to return...

An estate agent spotted her father’s house advertised on Rightmove just three days before it was due to be auctioned -...

A hit-and-run driver has been jailed for three years and four months after a crash near Newmarket which left an estate...

An estate agent has been jailed for five years for taking more than £450,000 from elderly clients in Cumbria. A BBC report says...

A rogue estate agent has been jailed for 10 months for what a judge has described as a “thoroughly dishonest” act,...

Police have released footage of an estate agent who has been jailed for four years after repeatedly running over his girlfriend's...

A conveyancer who swindled his clients and HM Revenue and Customs out of almost £352,500 in stamp duty land tax, has...

An estate agent who was jilted by his girlfriend has been jailed for sending explicit sexual images of her to another...

Three prisoners have been convicted of a prison attack on Jeremy Green, the former army lieutenant jailed for life for the...

A jealous estate agent has been jailed for two months after dousing the bed of his ex-partner with diesel fuel and...