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An estate agent has issued an apology after a signboard written in English angered Welsh language campaigners.

epropservices, the owner of Fine & Country and The Guild, will be rebranding and operating under a new name, as it positions itself as a leading proptech provider.

A DLUHC spokesperson tells EYE that the government is committed to bringing the cladding ‘scandal to an end’ and will ‘explore’ whether support should be extended.

House prices record strongest start to the year since 2005.

Property Industry Eye has learned that a new insolvency firm has been appointed to handle liquidation of outsourced letting management company.

The group general counsel of Purplebricks, Steve Thompson, has resigned from the company.

Purplebricks says its market share fell significantly, while new property instructions plummeted.

Property transactions in the UK will cool by at least 25% compared to last year, a conveyancer has predicted.

Tributes pour in for estate agent who died after ‘heart attack on the pitch’.

Among the biggest profit makers were Savills, Connells and LSL, but Chestertons is not worth the £100m price tag. Paul Smith offers his latest views.

Rightmove says the new insurance product has been created following feedback from agents looking for alternative revenue protection.

Proposed changes could affect a number of properties and that has the potential to cause supply chain issues, agents have been warned.

HMRC has extended the self-assessment deadline, but there is a ‘sting in the tail’ warns tax expert.

Average year-on-year price increases were recorded in all 32 local authority areas monitored.

There was a 25% rise increase in tenant enquiries last month compared with a year earlier.

Ben Beadle, chief of executive of the NRLA, has warned the government that getting buy-to-let landlords to pay for cladding removal “makes no sense”.

What would Russell Quirk do if he ran Purplebricks? The ex-head of Emoov joined Christopher Watkin to shares his thoughts on what’s gone wrong for the online estate agency. Watch now!

The estate agency has expanded as a result of the acquisition, which is part of its wider growth strategy.

RICS has published new guidance that scraps the ‘seven-metre rule’ that valuers use when determining whether Japanese knotweed poses a threat to a property.

Estate agents signed up to OnTheMarket could now potentially earn ‘significant’ referral fees on land deals.