Safeagent has warned the industry that regulation of estate agents through the RoPA proposals is not the done deal that many other organisations present it as. Isobel Thomson, Safeagent’s CEO, says the…

Lord Best talks about RoPA and the significant changes it will soon bring about for estate agents and later house builders, landlords and freeholders.

Lord Best, architect of the RoPA proposals that will see estate agents regulated by 2022, says such a huge housing sector can no longer carry on unsupervised.

Complying with new regulations, suggested by the Regulation of Property Agents (RoPA) working group, could have a significant impact on the workload of letting agents.