Hang your shingle and carry on estate agents - the unlicensed UK profession
Shears, Peter
Hang your shingle and carry on estate agents - the unlicensed UK profession - 2009 - Journal of Property Investment and Finance 27(3) 2009, 191-211(21) .
Estate agents unlike most providers of professional services in the UK are not currently regulated by means of pre-entry qualifications or required standards. This is particularly surprising as estate agents are centrally involved in what is often the largest and most stressful of all consumer transactions. Traces the history of the many attempts to create a regulatory framework for estate agents and discusses the reasons why these attempts failed. Examines the current proposals for change. Notes.
ESTATE AGENTS ACT 1979
CONSUMERS, ESTATE AGENTS AND REDRESS ACT 2007
CARSBERG REVIEW OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
England and Wales--1543-
Hang your shingle and carry on estate agents - the unlicensed UK profession - 2009 - Journal of Property Investment and Finance 27(3) 2009, 191-211(21) .
Estate agents unlike most providers of professional services in the UK are not currently regulated by means of pre-entry qualifications or required standards. This is particularly surprising as estate agents are centrally involved in what is often the largest and most stressful of all consumer transactions. Traces the history of the many attempts to create a regulatory framework for estate agents and discusses the reasons why these attempts failed. Examines the current proposals for change. Notes.
ESTATE AGENTS ACT 1979
CONSUMERS, ESTATE AGENTS AND REDRESS ACT 2007
CARSBERG REVIEW OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
England and Wales--1543-