Associations & Bodies
News and updates from associations and member organisations in the UK residential property industry.
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ARMA launches membership categories as it expands influence
Resi managing agency members will be joined by freeholders, developers, corporate landlords and registered providers.
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Leading landlord associations the RLA and NLA FINALLY merge
Three months after its initial launch date, the National Residential Landlords Association has today gone live.
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Business rates: Why are estate agents treated differently to bakers and tanning shops, demands Propertymark
Industry association wants agents to write letters to their MPs as a matter of urgency as it lobbies friendly politicians and civil servants.
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ARLA conference postponed due to Coronavirus pandemic
The ARLA Propertymark Conference, due to take place on 24 March, has been postponed until 2 September due to the threat of Coronovirus spread.
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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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