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Estate agency work
The Estate Agents Act 1979 is specific about:
- who is an estate agent
- who cannot be an estate agent
If you are doing estate agency work, the law applies to you whether or not you:
- call yourself an estate agent or describe yourself in some other way
- work for yourself or for someone else.
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Who is an estate agent
By law, you are an estate agent if:
- you deal with people who want to buy or sell freehold or leasehold property, throughout the UK: this includes commercial and agricultural property
- you do this as part of a business
- you act on instructions from a client.
But there are some important exceptions to this - see activities not controlled by the Estate Agents Act.
Who cannot be an estate agent
You cannot be an estate agent if:
- you are an undischarged bankrupt (but you can work for another estate agency, as long as it is not your own company)
- the Office of Fair Trading bans you from this work.
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