Recent UK law for Estate Agents

playaz

Does anyone know of the recent new law that the government has setup that basically means the Estate Agent should be upfront & tell you all the correct details of a property and surrounding region?

I saw it on the Daily Mail but cannot find it for the life of me??

kirkbyinfurnesslad_2

Take a very large amount of salt when reading an article in the daily hate mail.

Bit like believing the weather predications in the daily express

mjdh1957

Are you thinking of the Property Misdescriptions Act? That was passed in 1991, so not really recent.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/29/contents

But then the Mail is not really an up-to-date kind of newspaper.

Stratus

Is this what you mean? Not law but guidance from OFT last September.

http://www.oft.gov.uk/OFTwork/estate-agents/guidance-overview/#.Ubwn1hbA4so

googler

The Govt proposed repeal of the Properties Misdescriptions Act, with the Consumer Protection Regulations to be applied to EA work on an ongoing basis. I don't know if this is still in proposal or not.

http://blog.hartbrown.co.uk/2013/04/will-the-proposed-repeal-of-the-property-misdescriptions-act-1991-be-a-mixed-blessing-for-agents-and-developers/

http://www.naea.co.uk/property-news/2012/9/government-repeal-64315/

http://etsos.co.uk/consumer-protection/