Tech
OnTheMarket launches informational videos
Portal offers video information for customers in a 'digestible format'
News
Law
Conveyancing in a digitalised world
Covid-19 has become a catalyst for digitalisation that no-one could have predicted
Lettings
Lockdown has left lettings market at 50% capacity
Voids and rents fluctuate as lockdown hampers tenancy demand
Agency
West London agency gets stuck in to helping the local community
Agency team aids foodbank, charities, and the homeless, while MD helps out with homeschooling
Agency
Shock findings as survey reveals huge variation in what agents think of the portals
Majority of survey respondents think less than £500 a month 'fair value' to list on Rightmove.
Lettings
Agency investigated by ‘Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back’ – progamme airs
Comedian leads scathing investigation into Cardiff letting agency
Agency
Chestertons begins to ‘unfurlough’ staff
Increasing demand leads agent to bring staff back to work
Compliance
TPO expels eight agents owing a combined £12,000 in unpaid redress
EYE had raised queries about one expelled agent in 2018
Law
Land Registry announces changes to ease Covid-crisis conveyancing
Changes will still leave significant complications for conveyancing transactions
Law
What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean?
Law firms still resisting change when it comes to writing letters
Other News
Rightmove says buyers and sellers are sticking with their plans to move
Signs are encouraging but it wll take months for the industry to find its feet
Compliance
EYE NEWSFLASH: FCA seeks legal clarity on business interruption insurance
Courts to resolve doubt for businesses who are facing uncertainty on their claims
Lettings
2.6 million renters have missed or expect to miss a rent payment, says Citizens Advice – but NRLA disagrees
Research is dubbed a 'crude simplification and potentially very misleading'
Compliance
Agents warned of consumer complaint risks from virtual viewings
TPO plans to issue best practice advice to protect agents
Agency
The Last Days – How Kristjan Byfield’s agency left Rightmove
Correspondence shows the gulf between agent and portal
Finance
Equity release was growing as coronavirus arrived
Over £1 billion of property wealth released in first quarter of 2020
Other News
Property sale registrations fell by a third in March – Land Registry
Data reveals early impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the property market