Consumer, property management, campaigning and freeholder groups all urge Rishi Sunak to release funds to help home owners trapped in unviable ACM-cladded buildings.

The TaxPayers' Alliance is concerned that Shelter, which lobbied the government hard over the tenant fees ban, receives so much money from the public purse.

The ABBE CePAP course has its first successful student in the shape of Mollie Butterworth from Stoneacre Properties in Leeds.

Those attending last week's Guild event in central London were exposed to the risk after a delegate to a previous gathering at the venue became a confirmed case of the Coronavirus.

Guild says its iBuyer platform offers agents a way to help distressed vendors, fend off the 'quick sale' operators and even help counter the online agent threat.

Speakers at the London conference, which takes place in a month, include well-known names from Trading Standards, Law Society and Knight Frank.

Organisations wanting to bid for up to £10,000 funding have until 20th January to get their bids in, which must advance education about housing rights.

The four suppliers of conveyancing information and services have set up a breakaway industry association.