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Propertymark’s regional conferences are returning in November, promising to help members keep up with the latest legislative changes. As part of the...

Enforcement of material information rules is being done through redress schemes rather than putting a strict deadline on compliance, James Munro,...

A series of webinars have been unveiled to help agents prepare for new material information rules. Rightmove said it is providing a...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) has published the long-awaited Parts B and C of material information...

Trading Standards has insisted it is still on track to introduce parts B and C of material changes rules for property...

Referral fees for estate agents could be back in the sights of industry regulators. It was reported last week that the National...

The latest material information rules will be introduced this Autumn, the industry regulator has revealed. Speaking at the Propertymark One Conference in...

AVRillo is seeking agents to help test a new product that aims to provide upfront material information to buyers at the...

The existence of renewable energy sources and parking facilities look set to be among details that Trading Standards will expect to...

Given their leading role in the recent upfront information revolution, interest in the work of the National Trading Standards Estate &...

Agents are being reminded that they still have an obligation to provide all material information as the sector awaits Part B...

More than half of agents disagree that mobile phone signal should be treated as material information in listings. James Munro, head of...

The ongoing debate about how to boost agent and conveyancer relations, and improve the homebuying system for all, continues to rage,...

New estate agency listings that don’t display a price can no longer be uploaded to Rightmove from today. The portal giant has...

Agents may have to include the broadband speed and mobile signal for a property on listings in the next round of...

Portals are aiming to boost consumer awareness of new material information rules rather than refusing non-compliant listings. Agency listings have been required...

The head of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) has suggested the material listings rules should be...

Why the urgency? Because the appetite is strong. Research by the Conveyancing Association reports that 98% of consumers are overwhelmingly in...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) has deemed that the use of POA or “price on application”...

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

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said it may consider complaints about ‘misleading SSTC listings’ on portals but suggests it may...

Trading Standards has advised agents to update listings once they reach the "sold subject to contract" (SSTC) stage. It comes after legal...

Agents and conveyancers have signed up to a new buyers’s and seller’s property information form that is described as having been...

The National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agent Team has released background information on how it came to make changes to...

Trading Standards and the government have jointly announced compulsory new data which must appear on property listings. A property's council tax band or...

The most senior Trading Standards officer policing the agency industry says he hopes the public will ask about referral fees in...

The Trading Standards agency team has outlined to Estate Agent Today the process it will follow to improve what it calls...

The Boomin portal, which incentivises agents to cross-sell and benefit from referral fees, is to receive advice on fee disclosure from...

Customers must be told about third party referral fees when buying or selling a home says the National Trading Standards Estate...

One of the many new portals recently launched has made a pitch for agents to join because of its referral fees...

Trading Standards says agents must include more “material information” in property details even if this may not be a wholly positive...

The Trading Standards report on the future of referral fees is almost completed and will be sent to government next week. However, James...

The National Trading Standards Estate & Letting Agency Team and The Property Ombudsman have launched an urgent survey to assess awareness...

It is possible that agents and their business partners in the conveyancing, mortgage and survey industries could be obliged to have...

The annual conference of the National Association of Estate Agents takes place on February 27 - the date when the future...

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

Estate and letting agents are being urged to check that they are signed up with an approved redress scheme that covers...

The Property Ombudsman will in future refer more estate agents to the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agent Team if...

It’s clear that some agents are not fans of Trading Standards officers, described in the comments sections of the trade press...

The head of the new Trading Standards authority regulating estate agents says Online firms are treated exactly the same as High...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team has this morning issued a warning to agents that they must be signed up to...

National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team and two of the three industry redress organisations have launched a survey to measure the...

The Competition and Markets Authority has for the first time published details of the findings against a group of six estate...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team has followed up the recent announcement by The Property Ombudsman to counteract portal juggling by...

An agent at the centre of the campaign to expose and stop portal juggling wants to know whether the National Trading...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team is warning agents not to engage in portal juggling - an activity it describes...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team is urging the industry to comment on a government initiative aimed at cutting red...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team has over the weekend repeated its intention to investigate allegations of so-called portal juggling...

A new trading standards Guidance on Property Sales has been launched aimed at improving estate agency service to customers.  The Powys-based National...