Compliance
Conveyancers hit by ‘Friday afternoon’ fraudsters who target client money
Four cases a month as under-pressure lawyers struggle to get completions through
News
Other News
Asking prices close to all-time high as supply drought hits first-time buyers
Average asking prices just £30 off their peak, says Rightmove
Compliance
Councils may have to go back to drawing board on licensing
Liverpool among authorities urgently studying small print of Government clampdown
Law
Over 200,000 affected by retaliatory evictions each year, claims Government
New law would also make evictions illegal if there is no EPC
Law
How to tackle bad agents and landlords – advice for councils
Local authorities given new guidance on dealing with private rented sector rogues
Law
New guide for tenants pre-empts law on revenge evictions
Tenants told how to identify hazards in a rental property
Politics
Brits are paying ‘highest property taxes in the world’
Time for politicians to give home owners a tax break, says Nick Leeming
Other News
One quarter of consumers happy to search on all three portals
Survey also shows that consumers use only one favourite portal – and it's usually Rightmove
Lettings
Housing minister moves to curb new PRS licensing schemes
Lewis condemns blanket schemes such as Southwark and Liverpool as unfair
Compliance
Scam alert over tenancy deposits scheme
Tenants told by bogus website to wire deposit payments to account
Other News
Asking prices rise in every region
Prices up in London despite supply, up 31% on a year ago, overtaking demand
Agency
Demand falls in central London as Telegraph warns on Foxtons shares
Company is too exposed to property bubble, says paper
Compliance
New redress scheme reaches 3,000 mark
Scheme run by insurance firm says most letting agents now compliant
Acquisitions
Merseyside agent bids to go national as it launches into franchising
Firm offering first 15 territories makes key appointment to push brand
People
Chestertons boss Robert Bartlett to run gruelling Marathon des Sables
Race that's the equivalent of six ordinary marathons starts on Bartlett's 50th birthday
Other News
Impoverished students pose as millionaires to view £5m flat
But their cash offer of £800 is turned down by agent
Training
Countrywide launches two-year apprenticeship scheme
Scheme set to recruit 100 apprentices a year
Agency
Estate agency brothers’ feud over direction of business ends in court
Stresses put on business by property market crash put brothers at loggerheads
Agency
One in every eight estate agency reviews is a fake
Bogus reviews written by agents themselves – giving their own firms top rating or rivals lowest