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![Seven rogue sales and lettings agencies expelled by Ombudsman](/img/default/eat.png)
No fewer than seven estate and lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme today. Most of them are now...
30 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Property directors banned for 25 years after investment scam](/img/default/eat.png)
Two property directors have been banned from holding company office for a total of 25 years after abusing £7.7m taken from...
31 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Have tenants in arrears? You need to be aware of this new law](/img/default/eat.png)
From 4 May 2021, your agency could be blocked from charging late fees, compounding interest on missing rent and taking any...
20 March 2021
From: Features
![Property scam firms selling 'parking spaces' are shut down](/img/default/eat.png)
Two companies that persuaded property investors to pay as much as £25,000 for a parking space have been wound up in...
14 July 2020
From: Breaking News
![Surveyors’ firm wound-up after lying to clients over success rate](/img/default/eat.png)
A surveyors’ firm has been wound up after courts declared that it had misled clients over the success of its core...
18 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Two agents banned from being company directors until 2025](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s been reported that two founders of an estate agency at Leigh in Greater Manchester have been banned until 2025 after...
28 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Banned: property boss responsible for over 100,000 nuisance phone calls](/img/default/eat.png)
A property company chief has been banned from being involved in any company for five years following a case involving over...
21 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Scandal at surveying firm as court orders bosses to repay £182,000](/img/default/eat.png)
A husband and wife pair of directors at a property valuation and surveying company have been ordered by the courts to...
15 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Developer’s scam leaves buy to let purchasers £12m out of pocket](/img/default/eat.png)
Six directors have been banned from office after misleading over 300 people who bought new build homes in the north of...