Estate agency ordered to pay £15,500 for client money protection failures - Property Industry Eye

Midlands estate agency hit with £15,500 tribunal fine

A Dudley-based estate agent has lost his tribunal appeal and has been hit with fines totalling £15,500. Andrew Cole, trading as Andrew Cole Estates, was fined £14,000 for breaching client money protection regulations between January and August 2023, and a further £1,500 for failing to publish required fee information on his website in January 2023. The First-tier Tribunal heard that Cole had operated without a valid client money protection schem…

Estate agency ordered to pay £15,500 for client money protection failures - Property Industry Eye

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