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Article: HIPs decision could double fraud among estate agents.
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- Mortgage Strategy
- Article date:
- March 27, 2006
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Fraud and corruption among estate agents could double, the former head of the National Association of Estate Agents has warned, after being told by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister that it will offer no training to estate agents to sell Home Information Packs.
Trevor Kent, former president of the NAEA, was told by Andrew Hannan, who is in charge of HIPs implementation at the ODPM, that it won't give estate agents any education on how they should sell the packs.
Kent says: "I presume estate agents will just have to learn about them through word of mouth."
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