Stephen Jones and Neil Mackenzie headed up two of the four estate agency firms involved in the cartel, three of which were fined £600,000 earlier this year.

Statement follows several reports of agents, particularly those near the English border, opening up branch offices and conducting face-to-face viewings.

Agents who have left the portal are unhappy that they were initially excluded from the virtual gathering, and that's its hosted on the portal at all.

Credible-looking emails asking agents to pay outstanding invoices to an HSBC account are designed to dupe agents into revealing their Zoopla Pro account logins.

Marsh is a career industry redress expert including 17 years spent overseeing nuclear, police, health and legal sectors before landing the property job.

Act now covers existing as well as new and renewed rental tenancies and therefore all once legal but now prohibited fees must be returned to tenants.

Increased risk of property sales falling through during Coronavirus leads legal expert to recommend adopting extreme measures during pandemic.

Phil Spencer joins the debate over industry and consumer ignorance of the government's lockdown property viewings rules.