But Sally Lawson, founder of Agent Rainmaker, says the industry is already making huge steps toward achieving RoPA's recommendations.

Propertymark hopes that Eddie Hughes' relatively non-committal comments in parliament are a sign RoPA is still on the political agenda.

Eddie Hooker of Hamilton Fraser, believes that because RoPA regulation was left out of Queen's Speech again, it's clearly in the long grass.

Eddie Hughes ignores request for information from his shadow opposite number Matthew Pennycroft during parliamentary debate.

Frustration was clear in Lords as minister was grilled on both his failure to implement RoPA, or ability to reveal next steps.

Both Angela Davies and Kirsty Finney have the ideal regulatory experience that the new industry regulator proposed by RoPA may be looking for.

Steering committee behind new RoPA-inspired code says agents now have two months to comment before it starts setting the code in stone.

A RICS and TPO backed Steering Committee has started work on a single code for the whole industry that, when introduced, will change estate agency forever.