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An estate agent who swindled a 69 year old woman out of £5,000 has escaped jail - and has been ordered...
02 March 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
An estate agent has been jailed for 19 months and will have to be on the sex offenders’ register for the...
21 August 2019
From: Breaking News
An estate agent who ruthlessly used his position as a prominent figure in the community to win the trust of vulnerable...
22 July 2019
From: Breaking News
An estate agent in the north east of England has been told he will face prison after admitting two counts of...
15 May 2019
From: Breaking News
An estate agent who stole per £300,000 from an estate agency spent the money on designer goods and expensive holidays -...
30 January 2019
From: Breaking News
In a surprise weekend announcement the government has almost doubled funding for the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team - the...
01 September 2018
From: Breaking News
The consumer group Which? says some estate agents are misleading buyers about in-house mortgage services. The consumer group has issued a number...
16 July 2018
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A central London buying agent says she was once offered a bribe by an estate agent to try to persuade a...
17 April 2018
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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
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A survey suggests that the average fine incurred by estate agents for apparent non-compliance with anti-money laundering regulations is £11,842. Research by...
04 April 2018
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An estate agent has been jailed for 18 months after he took out £30,000 worth of loans in the name of...
26 March 2018
From: Breaking News
Rightmove has been accused of ignoring instances where agents have allegedly re-listed properties that have been sold in a bid to...
07 December 2017
From: Breaking News
An estate agent branded as "thoroughly dishonest" following a Gumtree scam has been jailed for 20 months, suspended for two years....
06 November 2017
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An estate agent with a career of nearly 24 years has lost his employment tribunal after a judge ruled he gave...
02 October 2017
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A mystery online petition is urging Rightmove to filter its advertisements “in a bid to curb down inflationary / speculative / fake...
26 September 2017
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The Daily Telegraph claims that what it calls “dodgy practices” are leaving customers “thousands of pounds out of pocket.” The article quotes...
11 September 2017
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The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team based in Powys has revealed that its cases under investigation include apparent offences of...
03 November 2016
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An estate agent has been jailed for five years for taking more than £450,000 from elderly clients in Cumbria. A BBC report says...
25 April 2016
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An estate agent who has pleaded guilty to 13 counts of fraud involving around £450,000 has been warned he is likely...
10 March 2016
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A rogue estate agent has been jailed for 10 months for what a judge has described as a “thoroughly dishonest” act,...
07 March 2016
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Police have released footage of an estate agent who has been jailed for four years after repeatedly running over his girlfriend's...
22 February 2016
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Two more agents have been expelled by TPO because they failed to pay awards when ordered to pay compensation, and because...
11 November 2015
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The National Association of Estate Agents is awaiting a response from the government to its demand for four changes to sale...
11 November 2015
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An estate agent who was jilted by his girlfriend has been jailed for sending explicit sexual images of her to another...
29 October 2015
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A new ‘enforcement toolkit’ has been designed to assist local authority trading standards teams beef up its policing of local estate...
08 September 2015
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A jealous estate agent has been jailed for two months after dousing the bed of his ex-partner with diesel fuel and...
03 August 2015
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The fines issued by the Competition and Markets Authority on a local association of estate agents and three of its members...
23 July 2015
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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is the latest body to warns its estate agent members that they have a legal...
13 July 2015
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Estate and letting agency review site raterAgent says an analysis of its own website suggests that 17 per cent, or just...