OFT guidance for estate agents: compliance with the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 and the Business Protection from Misleading Marketing Regulations 2008 - a consultation
Start date: 19 September 2011
End date: 9 December 2011
This consultation has closed. The final guidance and the response to the consultation are due to be published in Spring 2012.
The OFT will be hosting workshops in London on 10 and 14 November to give businesses involved in the sale of property an opportunity to express their views on the OFT's consultation document. Places are strictly limited so please contact Chris Garland by email on chris.garland@oft.gsi.gov.uk to confirm your place or for further information.
The consultation concerns the OFT's draft guidance on the application of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 and Business Protection from Misleading Marketing Regulations 2008 to estate agents (and others) in relation to the buying or selling of property or land in the UK.
At this stage, the OFT is keeping an open mind whether similar guidance on lettings and property management is best combined with this sales guidance, or else covered in a separate document or as part of a broader set of guidance and support materials for the lettings industry. We welcome stakeholder views on the best course to take.
The present document aims to help estate agents (and others) to comply with the regulations. It follows the OFT's Home Buying and Selling study which found that many estate agents thought the industry needed more guidance on the law.
The OFT would welcome views, in particular, from: estate agents offering property sales services, property developers that market and sell their own developments, relevant trade associations and professional bodies, the property ombudsmen, and Local Authority Trading Standards Services.
Please send responses to
David Hart
Goods and Consumer Group
Office of Fair Trading, Fleetbank House
2-6 Salisbury Square
London
EC4Y 8JX
or by email to david.hart@oft.gsi.gov.uk
Team leader: David Hart, 020 7211 8849, david.hart@oft.gsi.gov.uk
Project director: Simone Higgins, 020 7211 8173, simone.higgins@oft.gsi.gov.uk
Senior responsible officer: Cavendish Elithorn, 020 7211 8170, cavendish.elithorn@oft.gsi.gov.uk
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