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Independent estate agency Wilfords London has announced a series of senior appointments across its sales, lettings, marketing and operations teams, strengthening the business at a time of significant growth. The hires follow the successful opening of the firm’s Abbeville Village branch last month and come ahead of the launch of a fourth office in Barnes, which is…

A new UK-based service, Planning Decoder, has launched a 48-hour property planning intelligence report designed to identify issues that could derail residential transactions. The platform pulls data from local authority planning records, appeal decisions, Companies House and policy documents, combining AI-assisted analysis with human review. The service has been operating in beta since late 2025…

Almost 70% of all protected tenancy deposits in England are being handled by letting agents, raising concerns that some companies could inadvertently breach deposit registration rules under the Renters’ Rights Act. Analysis by The Letting Partnership estimates agents handled 2.98 million protected deposits in 2025, accounting for 69.5% of all deposits protected during the year….

Taylor Wimpey says it has no plans to ramp up home building to its pre-Covid levels until at least 2030, a decision that reflects wider concerns within the sector about costs, red tape and a subdued market. Its announcement delivers another blow to both Labour’s 1.5 million new homes ambitions and any estate agents that…

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The Government is intent on ‘professionalising property agents’. Light regulation, low public trust scores and the absence of minimum professional standards are supposedly a blight on the industry, as laid out in the Home Buying & Selling Reform introducer. Agents, however, have long argued that experience and memberships of industry bodies are enough but with…