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Article: ESTATE AGENTS REFUSE TO MEND THEIR LYING AND CHEATING WAYS.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- March 23, 2004
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THE scandalous rip-offs and dirty tricks of estate agents will be laid bare by Government watchdogs today.
A report from the Office of Fair Trading will condemn a catalogue of dodgy dealing in an industry which rings up commission of more than 5billion a year.
Estate agents are virtually a law unto themselves with fewer than a third signed up to the industry's voluntary policing regimes.
Last night industry leaders and consumer groups called for action to keep out the rogues, including the setting up of a licensing regime, training and formal qualifications.
A three-year house price boom has provided fertile ground for cut-throat ...