Fraud warning | Firm fined | Rent controls

LATEST: Solicitors report vendor fraud as 'key money laundering' activity during 2020<br />

Report to Solicitors Regulation Authority board says suspicious activity worth £200m was reported to NCA last year, much of it involving vendor fraud.

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Property agency and its boss fined £90,000 over dangerous house<br />

Faraz Bucha and his company Captain Solutions have been found guilty of 27 charges relating to safety issues at a Hertfordshire address.

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Rent controls will leave tenants worse off, landlords warn London Mayor

Comments by NRLA come as Sadiq Khan launches his bid for another term in office, including a promise to introduce rent controls.

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Is Land Registry’s goal to digitise key conveyancing data too ambitious?

Key plank of plans to speed up house sales has seen just 17 of 300+ local authorities migrate their records online.

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Leading inventories service and Reapit integrate for 'faster check-outs'

Both platforms can now talk to each other digitally, enabling letting agents to access common data and complete inventories more quickly.

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The Negotiator April issue is available online now!<br />

The April edition of the only trade magazine for estate and letting agents is published, online. 52 pages of agency news, features, market reports, interviews, columns and product analysis.

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The Negotiator April issue – agent interview. Beauchamp Estates

When Gary Hersham and Jeremy Gee talk about upmarket properties, they're talking a different language, as Nigel Lewis discovers.

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