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Amid the frenetic news agenda of recent weeks, a story broke that may have easily passed you by. It revealed how tenant...

The Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP) has become the latest body to welcome the decision by Countryside Properties to scrap the requirement to pay...

One of the biggest campaign groups calling for leasehold reform has welcomed the action taken by the Competition and Markets Authority...

An estate agency has apologised after a bogus employee posted offensive comments about Prince Philip on a newly-created fake Facebook account. This...

Here’s hoping you managed to have as good a Christmas and New Year as Covid rules allowed. Journalism in early January is...

A woman who bought a London house in 2012 is now suing the conveyancers that worked for her at the time...

Rightmove’s shareholders appear to have been generally unmoved by the string of protests against the portal in recent weeks. At the portal’s...

Labour’s long-standing housing spokesman, John Healey, has been moved to become shadow defence secretary on the front bench of new leader...

Recently a number of politicians and charities have been calling for the introduction of rent controls or rent freezes in the...

During our school days, most of us did that task where we imagined and drew the homes of the future, but...

A maverick estate agent pictured wearing a yellow vest has threatened to mount what he calls a “civil protest” if Brexit...

The former boss of Emoov, the controversial Russell Quirk, has resuscitated his career as a public relations man and pro-Brexit commentator. Just...

Activists from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender movement are reported to have staged what they called a “queer kiss-in" outside...

The National Association of Estate Agents says its election for a new vice president is to go ahead as scheduled despite...

Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first Budget this week pledging extra funding for the NHS, transport in the Midlands and the...

Peter Rollings, the well-known former managing director of Foxtons, has taken a stake in Viewber, the recently-launched outsourced viewing service.  Viewber allows...

Activists who stormed a wedding as part of a protest event in which a Foxtons office was damaged have been fined...

Marsh & Parsons is the latest high-end agency to open in Brixton, a stone’s throw from the controversial Foxtons office targetted...

The Fisher German group has responded to a protest body which accused the firm of conflicts of interests in representing sellers...

It’s been a heartening few weeks for those of us who thought that protest was dead – or, more precisely, that...

Anarchist activists are organising what they call “the decisive battle against gentrification” - and it appears Foxtons is in the firing...

I pride myself as a logical person, so much so that it amazes me how most people seem to struggle to...

Running a business is not easy, but sometimes it becomes harder because we are expected to modify our behaviour due to...

JLL says the stamp duty surcharge on buy to let properties and second homes has obliged it to downgrade its forecast...

The possibility of the Land Registry being amongst £4.6 billion of public assets earmarked for privatisation has provoked protests across the...

We've caught the apparent death of the high street estate agent on video - or at least that's what online estate...

A protest march in London's fashionable Shoreditch area turned nasty when the windows of a Marsh & Parsons estate agency branch...

There is controversy in the London suburb of Brixton over an estate agent which has allegedly 'spammed' the area with publicity...

Labour’s low profile housing spokesperson during the coalition government Emma Reynolds has resigned from the opposition front bench in protest at...

In the latest twist in the story of Foxtons’ attempt to turn a pub into an agency office, squatters have moved...

Another day, another story about Foxtons. This time the protest is against the London estate agency chain installing so-called ‘anti-homeless spikes’...

Gentrification is a divisive, provocative issue, but why are estate agents (especially Foxtons) appearing to bear the brunt of the public’s...

Vandals seeking to ‘reclaim Brixton’ have used a road sign to smash the windows of a Foxtons branch on the high...