Hampstead estate agents banned

The OFT has made prohibition orders against two Hampstead estate agents banning them both from estate agency work.

Malcolm Green, a director of Greenfields Estate Agents and Gem Shevket, an employee of the same company, have been convicted of offences involving fraud or other dishonesty as referred to in the Estate Agents Act 1979. As a result the OFT consider them to be unfit to carry on doing estate agency work.

Mike Haley, OFT Director of Consumer Protection, said: ‘This case again demonstrates that the OFT will take a hard line against estate agents who are unsuitable to continue working in the industry owing to their dishonesty.’