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The new estate agency owner has a background working in key customer service and experience, and operations roles.

Snippets of industry news: Stags announces partnership changes; Graeme Wadhams joins Seymours; Knight Frank appoints head of UK residential valuations

BriefYourMarket and Dataloft are hoping to appeal to more agents by integrating their products.

The latest transactions figures demonstrate market strength and resilience despite the supply of housing stock remaining at rock bottom levels.

Under new service, those living in tower blocks will have access to updates on the status of their building’s application to the government’s Building Safety Fund

The government is set to announce a major change to the timescale for DWP arrears payments for tenants on Universal Credit.

OTM CEO Jason Tebb: “We are pleased to be reporting a strong performance and further operational progress in keeping with our objective of building a tech-enabled property business.”

Purplebricks says it responded immediately and removed the property listing after a gay couple were prevented by Christian owners from buying their dream home.

Recent report identified that affordability was becoming more stretched across all regions. But there is also considerable variation within those areas and Nationwide explore this further.

CoreLogic UK has completed the acquisition of the property search and marketing platform Rummage4.

The lifting of restrictions this week could see a much needed increase in the supply of property for sale and normal house price economics return, says Knight Frank.

Josh Phegan, Spencer Lawrence, Richard Rawlings and David Cox will all present Rightmove webinars for agents over the next few weeks.

Almost one in ten private landlords renting to Universal Credit claimants have experienced at least one tenant having difficulties paying their rent due to benefit cuts.

The average number of house hunters registered per member branch was the highest December on record, new figures show.

Timothy Douglas will lead Propertymark’s policy team, having joined in 2015.

Estate agents’ portfolios are at historic lows, with many branches having very few properties to sell.

An agency which has been operating for more than 160 years has completed the purchase of a rival firm, established over 140 years ago.

Both agents failed to pay awards made and were referred to the scheme’s independent Compliance Committee, which ruled that they should be excluded from The Property Ombudsman scheme.

Homesearch has secured major investment from a venture capitalist firm that originally backed Zoopla.

Gazeal co-founder Bryan Mansell: “The industry is willing to change, and is ahead of the government in terms of upfront information, which is a no-brainer for so many.”