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Stop saying the property market is broken when it’s not, says Faulkner (TN)

Leading industry consultant Kate Faulkner says media headlines and many industry market reports misrepresent affordability in the property market and put off first time buyers.

Rob Hailstone January 22, 2020

Estate agents offered leasehold training (PW)

The Leasehold Solutions Group has arranged a training workshop to help estate agents understand imminent changes in leasehold legislation.

Rob Hailstone January 22, 2020

New cap on compensation fund to stem biggest losses (LSG)

The Solicitors Regulation Authority will seek to end multi-million payouts through the compensation fund in the midst of soaring burdens on the profession to prop it up.

Rob Hailstone January 22, 2020

Start-up ‘information packs’ proptech platform receives big-name backing (TN)

A proptech platform for sales agents that hopes to significantly reduce agents’ fall-through rates has signed up former Douglas & Gordon director and Viewber co-founder Ed Mead help launch the

Rob Hailstone January 21, 2020

Future of referral fees may be revealed at upcoming conference (EAT)

The annual conference of the National Association of Estate Agents takes place on February 27 – the date when the future of referral fees may well be decided.

Rob Hailstone January 21, 2020

Portals challenger OneDome says it is generating 1.7 enquiries per minute to agents (PIE)

OneDome, which acquired Nethouseprices last year and launched its own free property portal last Feberuary, says there are now 480,000 listings across the two sites.

Rob Hailstone January 21, 2020

Reapit joins consortium aiming to cut total conveyancing times to three weeks (PIE)

Software supplier Reapit has joined a consortium aimed at digitalising the complete home buying process.

Rob Hailstone January 21, 2020

Conveyancing Association’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ questions buyers of leasehold need to ask

The Conveyancing Association has also produced data showing the extraordinary number of leasehold transactions that fail because of delays, tiresome ploys for fees and general ineptitude of freeholders.

Rob Hailstone January 20, 2020

Reapit takes another step towards end-to-end digital home buying (EAT)

Reapit has joined a consortium attempting to make the long-anticipated end-to-end digital home buying process a reality.

Rob Hailstone January 20, 2020

Purplebricks and other hybrid LPEs face HMRC crack-down, warn lawyers (TN)

Legal firm Osborne Clarke says HMRC wants to recoup some of the £8.3 billion annual undeclared earnings, some of which is hidden by self-employed staff like hybrid agency LPEs, it

Rob Hailstone January 17, 2020

Digital Search Delays: Land Registry plans in disarray (EAT)

HM Land Registry appears to be making painfully slow progress on digitising land charge search data – contrary to its earlier promises.

Rob Hailstone January 17, 2020

Would agents really be happy issuing leasehold ‘wealth warnings’ on listings? (PIE)

IT professional and blogger Peter Ellis Jones said the mock-up reflects what listings might look like if the portal were “more aligned with buyers”.

Rob Hailstone January 17, 2020