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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has appointed Victor Olowe as the chair of its new Valuation Assurance Committee (VAC).  Olowe...

Complete guidance on Material Information parts A, B and C has been live in the property industry since last November. While...

Gaps between buyer and seller expectations have spread into the auction sector. The issue has become common among estate agents dealing with...

North East estate agency group My Property Box has welcomed Nicola Nicholson, Georgia Greenstreet and Georgia Richardson to its team following...

Eddisons has signed a partnership deal with proptech firm Valos in a collaboration which is designed to streamline the property consultancy’s...

Self-employed agency brand eXp has launched a brokerage model for the UK market. Such a system is already common in the US...

Three members of the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners take a brief look at some of the trials and tribulations awaiting...

Industry partner Jerry Lyons is launching a new network to support independent ethical estate agencies. The Ethical Agent Network (EAN) aims to...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has formed an independent industry body, the Open Property Data Association (OPDA), for companies...

In simple terms, as you are probably aware, ‘lenders’ are the organisations who loan you something, in this case money to...

A claims management company has criticised a long-awaited document released by the Property Care Association (PCA) on the use of the...

National Conveyancing Week has kicked off from today. The awareness-raising week features a series of in-person, online and pre-recorded events aimed at...

The Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) is the direct result of European Legislation. They were introduced because of the Energy Performance of...

LonRes has launched a new mobile app for its subscribers to access listings while on the move and support agents while...

Agency reviews website allAgents has shone a spotlight on industry trainers. It claims at least one unnamed industry trainer is advocating overvaluing...

A surveyors’ trade body has retracted guidance that previously claimed homes with spray foam loft insulation could be impossible to sell. The Residential Property...

The rise of online and low-fee offerings has devalued the expertise that estate agents can offer, an industry trainer claims. Responding to...

Legal claims over Japanese knotweed are on the rise, agents are being warned. Invasive plant consultancy Environet UK estimates that around 900,000...

There are no signs of a post-summer lull in the property jobs market. Here are some of the latest moves that took...

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) recently published a list of firms that have received penalty notices for failure to meet their...

Have you ever noticed that it is much easier to fix other people's problems than your own? Whether it is resolving a friend's...

As another round of property firms is fined, named and shamed for breaching anti-money laundering rules, it feels like the road...

Many of the property firms recently fined for anti-money laundering (AML) breaches have previously turned down help, Credas claims. It was revealed...

More than 30 agents and property firms such as auction houses and valuers were reprimanded by HMRC for anti-money laundering breaches...

Mortgage brokers have warned that an increase in downvaluations is starting to hit the property market. Lenders and their valuers are cutting...

A leading surveyor in London says the likely introduction of a register of overseas property ownership and sanctions making it difficult...

An online auction company executive has been appointed to the National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers committee for Propertymark. Stuart Collar-Brown, co-founder...

There’s been a very low expression of interest in Commonhold, despite the government pushing the new tenure as an alternative to...

Too few lorry drivers, hospitality staff and care home assistants - and now too few auctioneers, too. Propertymark says a surge in...

Admin teams in most businesses are often the lynchpins that ensure compliance and deal with issues in order to keep the...

Like many of you, I have watched a lot of football recently and I’ve enjoyed every minute. It has been an...

A self employed franchise estate agent business model has been launched by one of the brands in The Property Franchise Group. Hunters...

The finance arm of a leading estate agency has taken the unusual step of warning about delays in the conveyancing process. “The...

A prominent estate agent has warned buyers and sellers about the perils of the controversial Modern Method of Auction. MMA is now...

The property market became somewhat fractious during 2020. After receiving a much-needed boost with the promise of stamp duty relief, things...

There’s growing optimism that an extension to the stamp duty holiday - thought to be off the agenda just days ago...

While England’s national lockdown exempts the housing market and allows agents to operate normally, it’s not been the same in Wales...

Firstly, let’s get the obvious out of the way. Lockdown 2, as it’s being known, is now with us, but fortunately...

The outgoing chief executive of the National Association of Estate Agents is warning that the sales system continues to struggle with...

For many agents it’s been a big week…not because of the surge of buyers, but because their children have returned to...

Emma Vigus, managing director of sales progression platform mio, in discussion with key suppliers in the residential property industry on operating...

They are the names we hear about often, pushing for this or seeking clarifications on that. They are the representatives of...

Most letting agents don’t set up a business to become accountants but losing control of client money poses serious risks for...

The government is jeopardising the success of the housing market relaunch through the inflexibility of the furlough scheme, claims a group...

A survey of agents’ attitudes which two weeks ago showed a big majority of agents wanting to work as self employed...

Housing minister Chris Pincher is drawing up guidelines which could allow agents to return to something like normal working in the near...

At the moment, it somehow seems like tempting fate to think too far into the future, especially in terms of the...

If it’s really the case that estate agents’ offices could be in the category of High Street premises first allowed to...

A leading estate agency says it has observed that some banks previously opposed to accepting remote and desktop valuations have started...

A new hybrid set up by ex-Purplebricks territory owners says it wants to "redefine estate agency in the customer's favour." Knock Knock...

Hello and welcome to this week’s ADC - a sure sign that it’s the end of the week and time to...

Hello and welcome to PJT: even with little more than a fortnight before Christmas it seems there are still plenty of...

The head of online agency Housesimple has made another strident attack on the integrity of High Street agents by saying some...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Eric Woodhams F.N.A.E.A. mio Account Manager What is mio and what...

It’s now more than three years since the EU referendum result in June 2016, and we’re still no clearer on when...

Hello and welcome to both this week’s PJT and welcome to July. It may be summer and Wimbledon time, but there’s no...

A conveyancing body is calling on mortgage lenders to standardise their policies in respect of unexpired lease terms in order to...

The estate agency industry is at a crossroads. A turbulent market, unstable political situation and a chronic lack of public confidence has...

The introduction of the Propertymark brand as a ‘consumer friendly’ umbrella name for a series of trade bodies has been a...

The government has told the estate agency industry that it has a “moral” obligation to report suspicions about potential money laundering. Figures...

Is there really any true value to an estate agent in our current climate? Will there be a role for traditional agents...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? Ben Robinson, Director of Agency Services at Landmark What is Landmark...

To say I had a lot of reaction to last week's column about selling my flat would be an understatement. I've never...

Why I won’t buy Purplebricks shares and why if I had any, I’d sell fast… In its latest adverts, Purplebricks attempts to...

Hello and welcome to our first Property Jobs Today, a weekly round-up of key job moves within estate and letting agencies...

As the mainstream mortgage market braces itself for yet another clampdown on buy-to-let lending, a growing number of property investors are...

Property has been changing hands for centuries, but when did estate agents as we know them today – with their branches,...

The agent working as both managing director and chairman of the Halls regional chain covering mid-Wales, the West Midlands and neighbouring...

The chronic shortage of housing supply in the UK relative to demand has been a national issue for decades. The Government...

A firm is warning of “a wave of litigation from home owners who were given inadequate advice from their solicitors or...

An estate agency has been fined after a trading standards team accused it of making misleading statements on its website. Warwickshire county...

With ever increasing obligations, estate agents know that compliance matters now more than ever.  However, being able to obtain access to the...

How do you want your agency to be perceived? Do your processes reflect both the quality and speed of service you...

nu-move online estate agents -The Future of Property Nu-move is an online venture that has been created to meet the demand...

This debate has been running for some time, but it tends to be the online providers of electronic checks that put...

Dear Sales Doctor, About 90% of my valuations end in the vendor saying to me “your fees are too expensive” and with...

Connells Survey and Valuation says the total number of valuations conducted in March showed a 21 per cent increase over the...

Life is getting pretty frustrating for estate agents, and not just because getting houses onto the market is such an uphill...

The Arbon Trust is allocating £10,000 to help past and present NFOPP members in financial difficulties as a result of flooding...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors wants to make a valuation an optional element of the long-standing Home Buyer Report. This will...

The National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers has presented Katie Semmens of land and property firm Clive Emson with its prestigious...

Hybrid estate agency EweMove is today announcing four new branches with more to come as it makes a move to target...

A number of my member firms (Bold Legal Group) have reported that, compared to three years ago, the time to get...

The abundance of emails you send every day presents a valuable, yet often overlooked marketing opportunity for your agency. With that said,...

Three agents have been announced as winners of The ESTAS Agent of the Month competition for June.   The Tring branch of...

www.dezrez.com/rezi Whilst the estate agency market has accelerated over the last ten years, it’s fair to say that technical innovation in the...