The purchase of property data specialist company, TM Group by the Canadian software giant Dye & Durham has been declared to be anti-competitive.

Major house builder is latest to help its former customers as the CMA investigation into unfair leasehold practices and miss-selling rumbles on.

Fragmented nature of estate agency industry means combined entities will still only hold approximately 8% of the market.

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.

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.

The detailed discussions between the four estate agents involved in the Berkshire cartel case have been published by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), along with shocking evidence given by the individuals…

CMA has said in a strongly worded clarification that properties can only be advertised if a landlord's mortgage contract specifically prevents benefits claimants.

Regulator says its investigation uncovered evidence of price fixing by Michael Hardy, Prospect, Richard Worth and Romans.