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Government moves to stamp out agents who post fake reviews
Property industry and wider business community will face direct action by CMA if they are found to be gaming reviews platforms.
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‘Thousands’ of leaseholders freed to sell or remortgage their homes, CMA reveals
Competition regulator has secured agreement to cancel dodgy 'doubling ground rent' clauses from leaseholds from 15 companies who bought freeholds from developer Countrywide.
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LATEST: Taylor Wimpey agrees to free leaseholders from ground rent nightmare
Major house builder is latest to help its former customers as the CMA investigation into unfair leasehold practices and miss-selling rumbles on.
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BREAKING: CMA forces developer Countryside into ground rents U-turn
Big Four developer says it will remove doubling ground rents from all leasehold properties and will no longer include such clauses in future sales.
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Google investigated over claims it allows estate agents to game reviews
CMA is worried that Google is not doing enough to stop businesses including estate agencies faking reviews to boost their online ratings.
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LATEST: 99% of Countrywide shareholders vote through Connells purchase
Acquisition of the UK's largest estate agency group by rival is now a formality and will take place in six weeks.
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‘CMA will not block our bid for Countrywide’ says confident Connells
Fragmented nature of estate agency industry means combined entities will still only hold approximately 8% of the market.
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Two crowdfunding platforms which raised millions for online agents have merged
Both Crowdcube and Seedrs were used by investors to back the hybrid agency along with many other well-known proptech and online firms.
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Four major house builders under investigation for leasehold mis-selling
Five months after saying it would look into the scandal, the CMA says the firms to be probed are Barratt Developments, Countryside Properties, Persimmon Homes and Taylor Wimpey.
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Berkshire estate agency cartel bosses disqualified as directors
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.
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