Monday, Jun 16, 2008
Industry Bad Name?
times: Estate agents should sit an exam before they sell a house
Estate agents should be forced to sit an exam before they are allowed to sell a house, an influential report has recommended.
Estate agents should sit an exam before they sell a house
Estate agents might be sitting more of these
There are too many "rogues" giving the industry a bad name, Sir Bryan Carsberg said, unveiling his year-long report into the residential property market.
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1. whiteknight said...
In the words of Margaret Thatcher. No. No. No.
How about people buying houses do not tolerate such standards of service.
Thereby not using these individuals
Thereby putting them out of business.
2. Rental John said...
Maybe start with some GCSEs?
3. denzil said...
The problem is that the exam will be a noddy little thing proposed by the NAEA. The questions will be of the form:
What is your age?
What is your name?
Is it more likely that a bath is in the kitchen or a bathroom?
Does a house have four legs and go oink?
and just to weed out the men from the boys
Is a roof that is covered with clay tiles, a thatch roof?
4. paul said...
Estate agents sitting exams?
They never did exams their lives!
*That's why they are estate agents!!*
5. gone-to-colombia said...
Realtors in the US take a number of exams and they are registered.
My impression of there system there is that it is far better than the UK.
Realtors behave in a more responsible way because they are fearful of losing their living.
frankly, nothing could be worse than the present UK system.
6. Stevie Dee said...
Why does an estate agent need a qualification to tell us he is a twirp (tempered language), when we already know he is twirp (tempered language) in the first place.
It is now time for radical ideas, not gestures, when the market crashes, the government should and most probably will have to buy the property back off these large private equity companies, at interest over a 100 year basis.
I suggest, that the government, after the market crashes, brings in legislation to compulsory purchase property off the following:
People holding more than 2 properties in the residential market have there properties compulsary purchased. (Commercial as in retail/business as in real business would exempt).
Properties converted for multi dwelling (3 bed/now 7 bed) i.e. 2 inch walls/room/£200 per week please, again should be prohibited.
Private Equity companies holding vast portfolio's of residential property, should be forced to give back at a compulsory price their property portfolio to the government too.
Finally, outlaw BTL.
Why? Because the government can!
I truly believe that the Crash will provide the UK with a fantastic opportunity to provide a better housing policy for the younger generations to come. If we don't address this imbalance now, then it will ultimately have a tremendous detrimental effect on society in the long term, another repeated exercise 20 years hence.
Let people who want to dabble in property speculation, be allowed to, but only on the commercial side, as business is a gamble.
Let's face it, it's in the interest of the community and society to build and regenerate our communities without the speculative influence. As with any gambling, it just creates misery.
I have in my lifetime, already experienced 2 corrections/crashes in the housing market, my feelings this time, is that it will be far worse than what happened in 1989-92, so really it is time to prevent & protect society from effectively "self harming" and doing the same 20 years hence.
I genuinely feel sorry for the hard working families who are struggling with higher bills, higher mortgages just because they wanted to provide a home for their family. In the UK we really have a society in need of rehabiliation, it is only a government of integrity that can solve and achieve such an outcome.
I'm no longer proud to be British, I wished I was, because this is a great country being destroyed by soft & corrupt individuals.