Simplifying what this means for you
The Government’s Home Buying & Selling Reform consultations taking place over the next 12 weeks seek to improve the home buying and selling process. We have analysed these consultations and identified the 10 key priorities they include for estate agents – from digital identity to material information. The good news is you won’t need to reinvent your branch to achieve them. Coadjute already delivers on every one, helping you as agents to stay compliant, connected, competitive, and ahead of the game.
What the reform has made crystal clear is that estate agents are at the epicentre of the next big shift in the property market.
The aim? To make buying and selling a home faster, fairer, and more transparent – with agents driving that progress. But while the headlines sound simple, the detail is complex. From digital identity and material information to AML checks and reservation agreements, agents are likely to be facing new expectations, tighter rules, and the pressure to deliver a smoother client experience, all while running busy branches.
That’s where Coadjute comes in.
We’ve built the technology, processes, and workflows that do the hard work for you giving you the compliance coverage, digital tools, and time to focus on what you do best: selling homes, delighting clients, and growing your business.
Here’s the low-down on the ten new requirements in the government consultation announced on 6th October 2025, what they mean for you, and how Coadjute can help keep you covered.
1. Upfront information & digital property packs
What’s changing: Digital packs become standard (potentially mandated), built on a core, standardised dataset with clear provenance and robust security — with strong momentum to start in new-builds.
Coadjute today: We deliver Digital Property Packs at onboarding. Sellers’s review, complete, and share — so your listing is genuinely sales-ready, not hope-to-be-ready.
Benefit to you: Fewer surprises. Faster legal prep. Happier clients.
2. “Material Information” in listings
What’s changing: Agents must present key information clearly, intelligibly, and early (tenure/lease terms and charges, EPC, utilities, connectivity, structural/defect and risk data, alterations, rights/easements, and more).
Coadjute today: We already align to NTS material-information practice and are set to reflect the new rules as they land. Data is pulled from authoritative sources with a full audit trail.
Benefit to you: Lower risk, fewer complaints, fewer fall-throughs.
3. Searches brought forward (pre-marketing)
What’s changing: Searches are ordered upfront, alongside a property condition assessment, with validity windows and provider refreshes; real-time sources (e.g., HMLR) keep data current.
Coadjute today: Sellers can order searches at listing within onboarding. We track validity, surface refresh options, and pull in real-time sources where supported.
Benefit to you: Weeks off timelines — and a stronger buyer experience from day one.
4. Estate agent Code of Practice & professionalisation
What’s changing: A formal Code of Practice for agents, consultation on mandatory qualifications, and clearer enforcement via existing authorities/redress.
Coadjute today: We help you standardise best practice — with clear workflows, role hand-offs, digital packs, material information, and client transparency built-in
Benefit to you: Easier to evidence quality. Easier to train. Easier to scale.
5. Increasing consumer education and transparency
What’s changing: Comparable information on agents and conveyancers (specialisms, speed/quality, digital capabilities like packs/logbooks), plus the option of a charter & accreditation.
Coadjute today: We support consumers with educational guides and progress updates that keep movers informed on what’s been completed in real time without extra admin — progress, milestones, and compliance status at a glance.
Benefit to you: Stand out on service, not just fee.
6. Binding conditional contracts
What’s changing: More binding earlier (e.g., reservations) once upfront information is in place, to cut fall-throughs and speed completions.
Coadjute today: Reservation agreements are available in-platform so buyers can commit after reviewing verified information.
Benefit to you: Fewer collapsed chains. More predictable pipelines.
7. Streamlining transactions
What’s changing: Streamlined transactions starting with sharing AML across participants to avoid duplication, and support for AI to reduce manual legal tasks.
Coadjute today: Shareable AML across the chain and AI-assisted automations (document capture, status nudges) reduce chasing and re-keying.
Benefit to you: Less repetition, more progression.
8. Digital identity & e-signatures
What’s changing: Trusted digital identity services and Qualified Electronic Signatures, so buyers and sellers don’t keep repeating themselves.
Coadjute today: Every consumer completes biometric digital ID; e-signature integrations drop straight into your flow.
Benefit to you: Faster verification. Fewer hold-ups.
9. Leasehold information reform
What’s changing: Standardised request content, timelines, and fee caps with real enforcement to speed leasehold (and estate rent charge) information.
Coadjute today: Our workflows already help you track requests, timings, and responses, keeping leasehold cases moving and visible.
Benefit to you: Less mystery in the most complex transactions.
10. Common data standards & interoperability
What’s changing: Government-backed common data standards, provenance frameworks, UPRN/HMLR-linked data, and API-first interoperability across conveyancers, local authorities, and more — plus adoption of the Digital Property Information Protocol (DPMSG) for end-to-end roles, stages, and data flows.
Coadjute today: We run on open standards, connect to UPRN & Land Registry, and are architected to interoperate as the ecosystem standardises.
Benefit to you: Your tech finally talks to the rest of the chain.
What this means for you
Coadjute takes the burden of change off your shoulders and turns it into a business advantage.
With us, you:
- Save time – outsource the admin and let automation handle compliance.
- Stay compliant – we cover every HMRC and industry requirement.
- Earn more – compliance becomes a revenue stream, not a cost.
- Delight clients – seamless, transparent, digital-first experience.
- Future-proof your business – built for where the market is going, not where it’s been.
In short: you don’t need to wait for the future of estate agency, it’s already here, and Coadjute has you completely covered.
We make compliance simple, transactions faster, and your clients happier.
That’s what it means to give you as agents more agency.
