Required Reading: National Trading Standards publishes full guidance on new Material Information rules
Providing prospective buyers or tenants with more up-front information about a property should result in shorter transaction times and fewer fall-throughs.
What ‘material information’ should be legally required on property listings?
"Consumers want more information", says National Trading Standards's Estate and Letting Agency team, as it launches a survey to find out what property agents think should be essential on all portal listings
Trading Standards mandates new ‘Material Information’ for all property listings
Estate agents must include prices, council tax bands and tenures on property portal listings.
Required Reading: New official guidance for home-movers & property agents during the Coronavirus outbreak
The housing market has been re-opened after the Covid-19 lockdown, but it is "not a return to normality" for home movers or for the property industry.