Rental prices are now increasing across all regions of the UK, new findings from the HomeLet Rental Index show. This is only the third time in the history of the Index –previously…

Regular readers will know how we advocate focusing agency websites on the vendors, rather than just the applicant search functionality. At the end of the day, the principal aim of most agents’…

Avoid commission disputes: remember that only one fee is payable,” says Christopher Hamer, The Property Ombudsman.

I have written before on the continual complaints that I receive from consumers, and occasionally agents, with concerns about For Sale or To Let boards. I should first state that the TPO…

REPORT HEADLINES Rightmove: “House prices close to all-time high – will ‘granlords’ drive them higher?” Home.co.uk: “Home prices take a spring leap.” NAEA: “A third of all house sales made to first…

HOUSING PRICES RISE MORE UNDER TORIES… GENERALLY Home prices have increased twice as fast under a Conservative Government since 1970, at an average of 19 per cent per year compared to Labour’s…

Directive 2013/11/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on alternative dispute resolution for consumer disputes and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 and Directive 2009/22/EC Alternative Dispute…

Designs on Property tracks and summarises the monthly property indices. Kate Faulkner says, “Too many agents are chasing too few properties… so who will survive the fall out?”