Verity O'Connell said the government should do more to raise awareness about gazumping A woman who lost a thousand pounds after being gazumped when buying a house has called for the government to ...

Government departments are working as part of a coalition designed to transform the archaic homebuying and selling process, which costs the economy nearly £1bn a year. The coalition, which includes ...

First-time home buyers Christopher Rigby and girlfriend Ilya Hughes are devastated. They should have been spending their first Christmas together in their own property, but that dream was snatched ...

Communities Secretary, Sajid Javid, has announced the Government is launching a probe into 'Gazumping'. Javid is calling for evidence from estate agents, solicitors and mortgage lenders over the next ...

When a ground and basement flat at a sought-after address in London’s Notting Hill came down in price by tens of thousands of pounds over a period of weeks, canny buyers started to finally show ...

Reports of gazumping—the British term for the unfavorable practice of accepting a higher bid on a property at the last minute despite having already accepted a verbal offer—is in the decline across ...

Moving house is rated as one of the top three stressful events in life, alongside death and divorce, heaven forbid. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, along trundles the devilish duo of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Estate agents are reporting the highest levels of “gazumping” for a decade in prime areas of London as a ...