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The biggest news story in town this last week – which has brought people who don’t usually like or watch football...
24 April 2021
From: Features
New guidance spells out how leniency can be exercised on agencies or individuals who inform on anti-competition cartels of the kind that...
05 November 2020
From: Breaking News
The estate agency industry is still under the spotlight for possible illegal price fixing cartels according to the Competition and Markets...
11 September 2020
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority - which yesterday announced it had disqualified two estate agency directors for their parts in a...
16 June 2020
From: Breaking News
Two estate agency directors have been disqualified by the Competition and Markets Authority after taking part in an illegal price fixing...
15 June 2020
From: Breaking News
The Competitions and Markets Authority has started court proceedings seeking the disqualification of two estate agency directors over a price fixing...
31 March 2020
From: Breaking News
A new call has been issued this morning by the Competition and Markets Authority for estate agents to confess if their...
25 February 2020
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority says it wants to send “a strong signal” to the estate agency industry that price-fixing will...
24 January 2020
From: Breaking News
The public are being asked to inform the authorities if they know of agents operating fee-fixing cartels. The request - from the...
18 December 2019
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority has provisionally found that four agencies broke competition law by taking part in a price fixing...
13 June 2019
From: Breaking News
Proceedings against an estate agent at the centre of a fees cartel case have been dropped following his agreement not to stand as...
30 April 2019
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority has this afternoon taken the latest step in the lengthy case of an estate agency cartel. This revolves...
27 February 2019
From: Breaking News
The government policies and enforcement plans for anti-money laundering measures are set to take centre stage at next month’s annual conference...
22 January 2019
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority is stepping up its campaign to identify and prosecute companies behind cartels - and it’s offering...
24 October 2018
From: Breaking News
A disciplinary investigation by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has blown the lid on the infamous fee-fixing cartel scandal involving estate...
20 July 2018
From: Breaking News
Two estate agency directors have been disqualified over a cartel scandal which resulted in five agencies being fined over £370,000 for...
10 April 2018
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority, which is believed to be actively investigating estate agents’ alleged infringement of the Competitions Act, is...
22 March 2018
From: Breaking News
It is thought likely that there will be no new update on the investigation into agents’ alleged infringement of the Competitions...
06 March 2018
From: Breaking News
The Competitions and Markets Authority is investigating a suspect infringement of the Competition Act 1998 by estate agents. Few details have been...
02 March 2018
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority has set out precisely what agents and other companies can and cannot do in the event...
10 October 2017
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority - which yesterday released details of an infamous cartel case involving estate agencies - has now...
19 September 2017
From: Breaking News
The Competition and Markets Authority has now fined agents over £1m in two landmark cases concerning price-fixing - and it says...
03 March 2017
From: Breaking News
A fine of £735,000 imposed on an association of estate and letting agents and a local newspaper publisher has been described...
18 July 2016
From: Breaking News
The Competitions and Markets Authority - which earlier this year fined an estate agency trade group £735,000 - has set out...
19 November 2015
From: Breaking News
The consumer is King and to protect sellers and buyers' best interests estate and letting agents have to operate in the...