Acquisitions
Countrywide cancels property auction today – and does new deal
Countrywide calls off auction sale with new partnership announced
News
Agency
NALS sets up free legal helpline for agents
Help to navigate more than 145 pieces of legislation and regulation
Agency
Marsh & Parsons bolsters residential development team
Agent makes two appointments in new homes department
Charity
Tragedy as little Florence loses her brave fight for life
Sad news as the two-year-old estate agent's daughter who we all took to our hearts dies at weekend
Agency
Online agent easyProperty offers money back guarantee to vendors who do not get acceptable offer
Three-month promotion gives vendors 20 weeks to get an offer – or their money back
Agency
‘I did not put pressure on agents to leave either Rightmove or Zoopla’, Springett tells tribunal
QC for agent says Agents' Mutual boss pressurised for collective outcome – but denied by Springett
Compliance
Industry trainer Julian O’Dell invited by ASA to send details about online agent’s claim
Advertising Standards Authority uses social media to say it is ready to probe online agent's claim to be 40% more likely to sell a home than high street firm
Agency
Housing association says it plans to set up an estate and lettings agency
New commercial venture for not-for-profit social landlords
Compliance
Three solicitors accept rebukes after property fraud sees money going into wrong bank account
Directors of law firm did not check change in bank details with client
Other News
Average prices break through £300,000 barrier in ‘confident’ start to year
Housing market resilient despite the doubters
Finance
Increasing number of landlords ‘buying property with cash’ – claim
Countrywide says 61% of landlords are buying in cash as phasing out of mortgage tax relief comes closer
Finance
New financial services trade body appoints chairman
Trade body will replace Council of Mortgage Lenders and British Bankers' Association
Agency
Agents’ Mutual boss in competition case stresses he told agents to make their own decisions
Hearing told Agents' Mutual boss knew about collective decision making between agents
Agency
Agents’ Mutual boss ‘facilitated’ agents to ‘get into bed with each other’ – tribunal hears allegation
Tribunal hearing: Springett denies claims about collective decisions
Events
NAEA conference 2017: Importance of Propertymark launch
Conference hears minister confident about fixing 'broken housing market'
Compliance
Law on preventing illegal revenge evictions ‘is not working’
Over half of councils have not used powers to prevent illegal evictions
Agency
New progression platform ‘slicing two weeks off transaction times’, claim
Early trials of new system by 100 estate agents point to success
Finance
Landlords urged not to ‘sleep-walk’ into mortgage tax changes
Some still hoping for Section 24 to be scrapped
Finance
Buy-to-let valuation activity drops by almost two thirds
Proportion of valuation activity in buy-to-let sector fell from 17% to 7% in year to January
Finance
Repossessions at lowest level since 1982, say lenders
Mortgage borrowers with arrears of more than 10% increased slightly