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An agency that has now closed down has been expelled by The Property Ombudsman for failing to pay an award of...

An estate agent who swindled a 69 year old woman out of £5,000 has escaped jail - and has been ordered...

The public are being asked to inform the authorities if they know of agents operating fee-fixing cartels. The request - from the...

An estate agent has been jailed for 19 months and will have to be on the sex offenders’ register for the...

An estate agent who ruthlessly used his position as a prominent figure in the community to win the trust of vulnerable...

An estate agent in the north east of England has been told he will face prison after admitting two counts of...

An estate agent who stole per £300,000 from an estate agency spent the money on designer goods and expensive holidays -...

In a surprise weekend announcement the government has almost doubled funding for the National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team - the...

The consumer group Which? says some estate agents are misleading buyers about in-house mortgage services.  The consumer group has issued a number...

A central London buying agent says she was once offered a bribe by an estate agent to try to persuade a...

Two estate agency directors have been disqualified over a cartel scandal which resulted in five agencies being fined over £370,000 for...

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...

An estate agent has been jailed for 18 months after he took out £30,000 worth of loans in the name of...

Rightmove has been accused of ignoring instances where agents have allegedly re-listed properties that have been sold in a bid to...

An estate agent branded as "thoroughly dishonest" following a Gumtree scam has been jailed for 20 months, suspended for two years....

An estate agent with a career of nearly 24 years has lost his employment tribunal after a judge ruled he gave...

A mystery online petition is urging Rightmove to filter its advertisements “in a bid to curb down inflationary / speculative / fake...

The Daily Telegraph claims that what it calls “dodgy practices” are leaving customers “thousands of pounds out of pocket.” The article quotes...

The National Trading Standards Estate Agency Team based in Powys has revealed that its cases under investigation include apparent offences of...

An estate agent has been jailed for five years for taking more than £450,000 from elderly clients in Cumbria. A BBC report says...

An estate agent who has pleaded guilty to 13 counts of fraud involving around £450,000 has been warned he is likely...

A rogue estate agent has been jailed for 10 months for what a judge has described as a “thoroughly dishonest” act,...

Police have released footage of an estate agent who has been jailed for four years after repeatedly running over his girlfriend's...

Two more agents have been expelled by TPO because they failed to pay awards when ordered to pay compensation, and because...

The National Association of Estate Agents is awaiting a response from the government to its demand for four changes to sale...

An estate agent who was jilted by his girlfriend has been jailed for sending explicit sexual images of her to another...

A new ‘enforcement toolkit’ has been designed to assist local authority trading standards teams beef up its policing of local estate...

A jealous estate agent has been jailed for two months after dousing the bed of his ex-partner with diesel fuel and...

The fines issued by the Competition and Markets Authority on a local association of estate agents and three of its members...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is the latest body to warns its estate agent members that they have a legal...

Estate and letting agency review site raterAgent says an analysis of its own website suggests that 17 per cent, or just...

The Competition and Markets Authority has used Twitter to inform agents of the risks of joining trade assocaitons with loosely-worded or...