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To most people, purchasing a home is the single most significant financial commitment made across a lifetime. Given the impact and...

The Guild of Property Professionals has welcomed government steps to provide buyers and sellers with greater transparency in transactions - and...

A new team has been set up to police all estate and letting agency legislation including the upcoming tenants' fees ban. The...

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

Estate agents have been warned that if new guidance over referral fees is not taken seriously, they could be faced with...

The National Association of Estate Agents has led the support for stricter new guidelines on transparency for referral fees. The clampdown means agents...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team has this afternoon revealed new industry guidance to make referral fees more transparent to...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency team has issued new guidance for those seeking redress over leasehold disputes.  This guidance contains a...

The Property Ombudsman is to give agents new guidance on dual fees, following a surge in complaints from the public. In 2017, TPO received...

It’s been revealed that the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team is to deliver new guidelines to agents for referral fees...

In a surprise weekend announcement the government has almost doubled funding for the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team - the...

An online estate agency run by one of the country’s youngest entrepreneurs has agreed to change a reference about savings on...

In our previous blog, we looked at the definitions outlined by the CPRs. In our next blog we’ll look at the...

The redress scheme which formally quit the housing sector admits some estate agencies may have missed its deadline - and are thus...

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

There’s a new twist in the row between a Cornish agent and the Advertising Standards Authority. The row revolves around a tweet...

An agent from Cornwall who has waged a long-running campaign against online agencies in general and Purplebricks in particular has been...

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

  More details have emerged of the government’s proposals to enhance estate agency regulation, regulate referral fees, offer guides for buyers and...

The government has announced further measures which will, in its words, “professionalise” house buying and the estate agency business. In yet another Sunday...

Pressure continues to mount on Purplebricks to reveal its sales data after a weekend during which claims about its effectiveness continued...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has informally resolved another complaint made against wording on Purplebricks’ website.  A complainant suggested that the wording...

The industry’s three government-approved redress schemes have this week issued an updated version of their Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The MOU is...

Peter Robinson, CEO of AIPP – Association of International Property Professionals – shines a light onto the international property market. Some UK...

HMRC and the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team have agreed new procedures to “enhance and ease the current flow of...

New software has been devised which can allow users to identify individual properties that have been ‘portal juggled’ - de-listed and...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team based in Powys has revealed that its cases under investigation include apparent offences of...

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

The Property Ombudsman scheme (TPO) has announced that it will be issuing updated versions of all its Codes of Practice on...

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...

A disillusioned vendor has been running a campaign against standard term agency contracts for almost two years.  Paul Tranter has been specifically...

A member of the public has submitted a complaint on portal juggling to the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team following...

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...

The influential Home Owners’ Alliance pressure group says Britain pulling out of the EU would probably depress house prices. The HOA - a...

The National Association of Estate Agents admits that “take up has been low” in its bid to persuade each member agent to...

The consumer is King and to protect sellers and buyers' best interests estate and letting agents have to operate in the...

A new ‘enforcement toolkit’ has been designed to assist local authority trading standards teams beef up its policing of local estate...

There have been concerns raised over new trading standards guidance for estate agents on having to reveal ‘significant defects’ about properties...

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

Agents and other property professionals are being invited to a briefing on how new trading standards guidance will affect the industry. The...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team has prepared a draft of revised guidelines on property sales, to replace the old...

The Property Redress Scheme (PRS) is delighted to announce their partnership with the award winning mediation provider, Small Claims Mediation (SCM) The...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team (NTSEAT) is to meet with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to discuss complaints...