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Estate agent and Data protection
adviceforeveryone
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Hi
My sister and I are currently selling our late mums house, very nearly exchanged contracts when the virus stopped everything . Her ex husband is currently buying a house through the same estate agents. It has come known to us that the Estate Agent has been passing on information to the ex husband about how the sale is progressing. Information that the estate agent hasnt even told us...( my sister is using some of the money to buy him out on the house that they both lived in ) Now we are both livid that this is going on. Is there somewhere we could report this to as surely its against date protection rules they cant tell him what is going on..
My sister and I are currently selling our late mums house, very nearly exchanged contracts when the virus stopped everything . Her ex husband is currently buying a house through the same estate agents. It has come known to us that the Estate Agent has been passing on information to the ex husband about how the sale is progressing. Information that the estate agent hasnt even told us...( my sister is using some of the money to buy him out on the house that they both lived in ) Now we are both livid that this is going on. Is there somewhere we could report this to as surely its against date protection rules they cant tell him what is going on..
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What's the nature of the "data"?1
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If you are buying him out is he part owner?0
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about the time line of exchange of contracts and when the buyer would be able to move, things we havent been kept up to date with ourselves. The sale has nothing to do with him.0
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It is pretty standard for an estate agent to view an entire chain where a number of sales are dependant on each other, and to advise clients of progress elsewhere in the chain so far as it affects that client's own progress.Since the ex-husband's sale to your sister is dependant on the sale of your mum's property, it is reasonable to update him on the progress of that sale.Of course, if other confidential data is being shared, that might be a different matter.0
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