Agency
Keller Williams names new market centre boss as it declares ‘We can now tell the doubters it’s working’
New market centre boss is named by Keller Williams UK
News
Compliance
New Homes Ombudsman gets go-ahead with powers of redress over shoddy building work
New 'snagging' redress scheme will be able to award payments up to £50,000
Other News
Prime properties lead recovery as Land Registry figures show pace of decline in sales has slowed
Property market 'remains robust' as signs of life emerge
Acquisitions
London Stock Exchange is told of talks which could lead to ‘offer’ for Countrywide by LSL
LSL could offer to acquire Countrywide, London Stock Exchange is told
Agency
Agents query Rightmove price hikes – one quits, and the other asks if he is paying top whack
Agent who wanted to drop lettings listings to save money told he would be charged more per month
Agency
Guild agents told they have most market share – and now urged to double it
Guild agents could take 10% market share, says confident boss, as member agents overtake Purplebricks, Countrywide and Connells
Agency
Police force admits it did not have time or resources to investigate fraud agent
Police say why they refused to act in case where estate agency boss took out private prosecution
Law
Former lettings agent spared jail over theft after ‘inexcusable’ three year delay to bring case to court
Police took three years to interview letting agent who was sacked after taking tenants' deposit money
Other News
Residential property sales jump up to hit a three-year high for January
Taxman’s figures show new signs of a market recovery
Other News
A squash in sale room as auctioneer has to ask people not yet bidding to leave
Property auctioneer asks those not bidding for first ten lots to make way for those trying to get into sale room
Agency
Zoopla announces latest recruit as seven-branch independent starts listing
Newest client win for Zoopla builds on 345 new branches joining at start of year
Compliance
See you in court, property firm that refuses to pay tells Ombudsman
Property firm says that it does not need to offer redress and disagrees with Ombudsman's decision
Law
Conveyancing market ‘nose-dived’ in final quarter of last year as transactions dwindled
Dramatic slowdown in transaction volumes reported by conveyancers
Agency
Agent fined over two-bedroom flat where 32 people took it in turns to sleep
Victims in overcrowded flat raided by council officials and police had come to UK in search of better life
Agency
Foxtons announces date for retirement of outgoing chairman
Chairman to step down on March 1 with a shake-up of the Foxtons' board
Lettings
Tenants’ deposits worth £5.2bn taken out of the economy last year, says new research
Huge sums taken out of circulation as tenants pay an average deposit of over £1,100
Agency
Online agent set to start crowdfunding campaign as it seeks to expand franchising
Online agent tight-lipped for the moment about how much it wants to raise
Compliance
Short-term lets using multiple listings and different pictures to avoid detection of illegality, claim
'Unscrupulous businesses' behind boom in short-term lets where the law is being broken
Other News
Bargain of the Week: The property that’s cost just £1
Bricked up room that no one can get into sells for just £1
Agency
Industry urged to support London agents in charity cycle ride for orphans in Thailand
London agent is sole UK representative for 500km fundraiser