Associations & Bodies
News and updates from associations and member organisations in the UK residential property industry.
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Coronavirus advice: ‘Stand six feet from clients when visiting properties’
Extraordinary but perhaps sensible advice is given to inventory clerks by their national association chief as first death is reported in UK.
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Be nicer this time! Mary Portas to give keynote speech at ARLA conference
TV star and high street champion returns to talk about estate agency nine years after her show trashed the industry's customer service effort.
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New industry body promises end to low-quality property search data
CIE says it wants to improve the quality of information provided to conveyancing solicitors and also better police poor practices within the search data sector.
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As industry awaits reservation agreements, Propertymark launches initiative to ‘prevent fall-throughs’
NAEA's three-document 'sales protocol' toolkit, which some might call 'HIPs lite', is designed to speed up the process by bringing forward the information needed to speed up a sale's progression.
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Property industry calls on Chancellor to release 500,000 home owners trapped by cladding scandal
Consumer, property management, campaigning and freeholder groups all urge Rishi Sunak to release funds to help home owners trapped in unviable ACM-cladded buildings.
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Housing charity Shelter taken to task over its £15 million annual public funding
The TaxPayers' Alliance is concerned that Shelter, which lobbied the government hard over the tenant fees ban, receives so much money from the public purse.
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Estate agent is first to pass course launched with RoPA specifically in mind
The ABBE CePAP course has its first successful student in the shape of Mollie Butterworth from Stoneacre Properties in Leeds.
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400 property conference delegates warned over Coronavirus risk
Those attending last week's Guild event in central London were exposed to the risk after a delegate to a previous gathering at the venue became a confirmed case of the Coronavirus.
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Guild launches UK’s first iBuyer platform, but can the US concept succeed over here?
Guild says its iBuyer platform offers agents a way to help distressed vendors, fend off the 'quick sale' operators and even help counter the online agent threat.
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Final programme announced for NAEA Propertymark Conference
Speakers at the London conference, which takes place in a month, include well-known names from Trading Standards, Law Society and Knight Frank.
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