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A variety of charities have received support from the property industry this week. If there are charitable endeavours you think the rest...

Agents Giving says its Fundraising Champions of the Year Awards 2024 are now open for entries. You can enter the awards yourself...

Complete ASAP has launched a new package to help agents provide material information on listings. Agents already using the Complete or Instruct...

There are several pros to cohabitation, and it’s always a wonderful experience when you’re handed your set of keys as a...

Go back a hundred years and property transactions were a much simpler affair. A group of people could get together in...

One of the most heart-warming parts of my job is having the privilege to be the patron of Agents Giving, the...

Anti-money laundering platform (AML) Credas Technologies has launched a material information function, helping estate agents to get ahead of the latest...

As an Estate Agent it’s important to be able to interpret and understand the information that a Title Deed document presents...

Estate agency has changed. No longer is it required to sit in a high street office working the old way. Provide a...

The Government’s First Homes Scheme is set to be the first state-backed initiative to use digital property logbooks. It comes after a...

PM Property Lawyers has launched a service to offer all its conveyancing clients a digital property logbook for their new homes.  Working...

CRM provider Street.co.uk has partnered with Smart Compliance to give agents access to its tools. With the integration of Smart Compliance into...

Ever taken on a property where the sale has got tangled up in problems arising from the title register? It’s a...

Great story this week about the estate agent in St John’s Wood who found a purse in the back of a...

An artificial intelligence-powered property due diligence platform that is popular in the commercial market has raised £7.5m to help expand into...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. If you have a charitable event or...

The Bank of England last week announced the completion of Project Meridian, a digital synchronised settlement prototype that aims to digitise...

Check out some of the latest charitable endeavours from agency and property brands this week. Agents Giving: Entries are now open for...

I was delighted to read recently about the creation of the first ever ‘register of logbooks’ in the UK, which offers...

As an estate agent, you know that securing the sale is just step one of a successful journey. But with issues...

Conveyancing company AVRillo has pledged to further reduce transaction times after scooping a top innovation award. The conveyancer brand picked up the...

  It's not often that I have sympathy for our glorious leaders – those who set the rules by which we all...

As is generally the case, we didn’t start out with solutions, we started with questions…. two, actually. The first was, ‘Why does...

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

Conveyancers are being urged to conduct better “quality control” on documents filed to the Land Registry after the body revealed ‘basic...

Smoove has announced the full market rollout of its digital onboarding platform, Smoove Start. The conveyancing software provider’s latest tool provides a...

One of the biggest frustrations people have with the home buying and selling process is the amount of time it takes...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) is seeking views about the industry beyond its membership. The trade body has launched a new survey asking...

In a welcome return to a favourite series of mine - and a timely one at that, given the current back...

As temperatures rise and the holidays begin many of us will be looking to enjoy our gardens and make improvements to...

Issues with property titles and borrower affordability have been revealed among the main reasons why mortgage offers have been withdrawn. The results...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has launched its 2022 Lender Survey to identify where the industry can collaborate to improve the mortgage...

Fundraising frolics by agents and property professionals this week include bike rides and triathlon challenges, plus the charity award season returns. Remember,...

In this Q&A, I catch up with Jesper With-Fogstrup, chief executive officer of Smoove (formerly ULS Technology until a very recent...

No matter how dark the news, there’s light in our industry thanks to so many agents and suppliers doing good deeds....

Hello and welcome to the latest Agents Do Charity, our weekly round-up of who’s-doing-what-good-deeds in our industry. Want to be involved? Well...

You’ve heard me bang on about the wonder of reservation agreements for some time now, but it’s definitely the case that...

Estate agents are being urged to ensure their compliance procedures are up to scratch after fraudsters stole a man’s identity and...

Well it’s about time isn’t it? We mean winter - it’s here at last, with white, wintry weather that gets us...

With soaring property prices, supply continuing to be outstripped by demand and overworked and overtired industry professionals; we’re seeing the sector...

Agents are being advised to go above and beyond the legal requirements for anti-money laundering requirements.  Paul Offley, compliance officer for The...

Well, we’re technically more than halfway through the year already, but we’ll let that slide. And what a year it’s been...

Boy it’s been hot out there - yet even 30 degrees or more have failed to stifle the enthusiasm of our...

The government has thrown its weight behind the concept of Unique Property Reference Numbers as a way of speeding up transactions. UPRNs...

It’s been another terrific week for good deeds by our industry - so often under-reported but so important for agents and...

In an unusual move, HM Land Registry has issued guidance to agents to help them reassure jittery buyers and sellers ahead...

Hello - it’s Friday already and that means more salutes to those in our industry raising money for good causes. If...

In recent years, the property market has been taking steps to become more digital – with HM Land Registry leading the...

Hello and welcome to the end of a busy, busy week for agency news.  It’s easy to assume the agency business is...

The industry seems almost back to normal. Not the ‘new normal’ we spoke so much of a few weeks and months ago,...

The government has revealed new regional price caps for its revamped Help To Buy Equity Loan scheme, set to operate between...

It’s Halloween time, and while this year’s festivities may be muted there’s plenty to celebrate as far as agents’ good deeds...

Another attempt is being made to introduce property logbooks to the selling and buying process, and agents are invited to play a...

2020 has definitely been a year of change. With little warning, the pandemic disrupted the day-to-day operations of almost every industry...

The only certainty at the moment is ongoing uncertainty. It’s something we’ve got used to in 2020, but it’s still not...

Hello and welcome to the start of the weekend and that means it's time for Agents Do Charity. Each week, we publicise...

It’s fair to say that UK estate agents don’t have the best of reputations, often featuring in the lists of the...

Hello and welcome to the weekend - if it’s Friday, it’s Agents Do Charity day as we pay tribute to fund-raisers...

Buyer registrations and sales enquiries are reportedly back to pre-Covid levels. Completions, however, are lagging behind. This is probably down to...

A working party of property professionals is being set up to look at whether and how property logbooks could help speed...

The fallout from Covid-19 has hit everyone hard. With breaking news today that agents are able to look at how to...

There has been much speculation about when agents will be allowed back to work, and what the new office working environment...

Over Easter we carried stories of good deeds done by agents and how firms were coping with working from home -...

HM Land Registry is making it easier to verify individuals’ ID from today. In addition to conveyancers and chartered legal executives, verification...

If anyone told us six weeks ago that agents would still be doing such amazing work for their communities during lockdown...

A high-profile regional agency is “cracking on” with support for a hospice for children and young people that cannot raise funds during...

A branch of Northwood is offering its pool car to any NHS workers who need it during the Coronavirus crisis. The Fiat...

The John Bray agency based at Rock in Cornwall typically deals with some of the most expensive real estate in the...

Independent agency Nicol & Co is donating £100 to the NHS for every new instruction signed up by April 21. The agency...

This Easter, and during the whole period of the Coronavirus crisis, Agents Giving is reminding everyone to use the hashtag #IndustryActsofKindness...

For many this coming Easter weekend will be the strangest ever - for agents and industry suppliers it will not be...

Can any agency beat Knight Frank for a brilliant collection of selfless work? We doubt it, as the agency has provided...

Industry…we salute you. We thought we may have no good deeds to pass on to readers this week because of the...

The National Association of Estate Agents has launched its Sales Protocol Toolkit, in a bid to reduce fall-throughs and dramatically improve...

Quite a few years ago, I spoke at a conference for auctioneers. It was a traditional affair. Rural location. Nice hotel....

In the field of conveyancing, there’s a new dynamic at play. And that dynamic is customer-driven and customer-focused, using digital technology...

Welcome to another Agents Do Charity, meaning it’s not just Friday but also a day to think about fund-raising in the...

Election time means setting out your stall and getting support - so how about a vote of confidence for those agents,...

It may only be October 4, but temperatures have already started to drop this week as preparations for winter begin. As we...

Stamp duty won’t take centre stage at the Conservative Party conference - that’ll be Brexit, quelle surprise. But if the government...

As an agent, it’s part of your role to protect and advise your clients throughout the buying and selling process. Mortgages are...

So far in our contribution to the campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold we have outlined the stories of some of...

A firm is launching a new Home Owner’s Passport this weekend in a bid to speed up conveyancing.  With characteristics reminiscent of the much-derided Home...

I am currently in the back of a taxi. The deadline for this piece is looming and I am desperate to...

An insurance company is launching a policy which it says will protect consumers with comprehensive cover in the event of a...

With the news that Hunters and Fisher German are the latest agencies to offer online auctions to sellers, is this something...

Out and about recently, I got to thinking: how often do I actually have the call for cash anymore? Or, for...

First things first, I have to mention the World Cup. The dream is over, football’s not quite coming home (not until...

Last time out I looked at the growing importance of content, social media and design – but these should only form...

It’s spring at last! Although we’ve only just finished wiping the snow off our boots, it’s great news that the clocks...

A law firm says the problems with housing transactions lie not with issues like fall-throughs but with “people’s general lack of...

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

It’s perhaps appropriate that we kick off this week’s Agents Do Charity with an appeal for winter clothing for the homeless...

Thanks so much for a bumper selection of charity deeds this week - as an industry we can be proud of...

It’s been hot, hot, hot this week - but that's not deterred many in our industry from helping those in need...

A property company claims that more than £31m has been paid out by the Land Registry in the past three years...

Competition is hot among home buyers in my part of southern England to take ownership of properties that come onto the...

It’s over at last. But while the property market has been awaiting the outcome of the closest poll in years, many...

Thanks to everyone for keeping our readers updated on what’s happening in the world of estate agency charity fund-raising. If you want...