Regulation & Law
News articles looking at national legislation and local regulation and the application of law to the residential property industry.
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Conveyancer struck off after helping criminal gangs launder drug cash
Ross Ian Mackay has accepted his role in a prolific scam that saw some 80 properties bought via mortgage fraud from the early noughties onwards.
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Looming industry Code of Practice to tackle ‘dual fees’ problems
Long-standing industry sticking point is one of several issues discussed by TPO-organised industry gathering last week about the code of practice, held on Zoom.
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Belvoir advises franchisees RoPA is ‘enormous opportunity’ to lessen competition
Passages within its website about the looming industry regulation were picked up on Twitter yesterday and criticised by a business ethics campaigner.
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Property industry Code of Practice is just six months away, agents are told
A RICS and TPO backed Steering Committee has started work on a single code for the whole industry that, when introduced, will change estate agency forever.
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Bojo’s huge changes to planning laws to free up house builders
Swathes of planning 'red tape' are to be swept aside to help builders construct on brownfield sites more easily as Bojo declares war on 'newt counting'.
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Anger grows over Countrywide lack of action over furlough cheat employee
New photographic evidence handed to The Negotiator shows the employee working during the lockdown, despite being furloughed, it is claimed.
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Protection scheme reports dramatic drop in rental deposit disputes
Heralded as a new period of harmony between landlords, tenants and agents, the reduced number of tenancies taken up this year are a more likely explanation.
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A third of furloughed staff including some online agents asked to work
Survey of employees across several industrial sectors including online estate agents finds widespread abuse of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
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Leading agent rails against developers who use low cost property management contractors
Kristjan Byfield says he knows of a luxury block where lift maintenance has a 28-day response rate SLA in place even though apartments 'cost millions'.
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Industry campaigner dies tragically young at just 54 years old
Louis AKA 'Louie' Burns battled for years to highlight the 'scandal of epic proportions' that is the leasehold system and was one of the campaign's key drivers.
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