We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Find out if you’re an estate agency business who needs to register with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
You must join a redress scheme if you operate as as a residential estate agent, letting agent or in property management.
How to sell a home: Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), using estate agents, finding a legal professional, getting offers, transferring ownership and making complaints.
Selling a home takes about 5 months on average. The process can take…
If you have a mortgage on the property you’re selling, you’ll need to move…
An Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) tells you how energy efficient a…
You can sell your home yourself or use an online, high street or hybrid…
A legal professional can handle the legal work involved in transferring…
Choosing a buyer Buyers can make offers verbally (over the phone or in…
After you’ve accepted an offer, you’re responsible for drawing up a legal…
You can contact a legal professional if you need help selling a property…
You can make a complaint to a company involved in the sale if you’re…
How to appeal to an independent tribunal if you are banned from being an estate agent, or receive a warning order.
Guidance from the British Embassy on buying, renting or letting property in the United Arab Emirates.
You must join a client money protection scheme if you're a property agent in the private rented sector in England and you hold clients' money.
Find out if you’re a letting agency business who needs to register with HMRC under the money laundering regulations.
How the First Homes scheme works, who is eligible, how to apply and the rules for managing a First Homes property after you buy one.
Do not include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).