0 a business that arranges the sale, renting, or management of homes, land, and buildings for their owners --
1 a business that arranges the selling, renting, or management of homes, land, and buildings for their owners: --
Solicitors will be treated in the same way as others when acting in the course of an estate agency or property development business.
That is confirmed by the preparatory activity already taking place in the estate agency trade or profession.
The building society can also operate insurance facilities, foreign exchange, valuation and estate agency facilities.
Most valuers are in some capacity connected with the estate agency business.
Its loss provision on its estate agency business is substantial.
There is one well-known estate agency which sells one-third of its property to people from overseas.
The money might, for example, be invested in an otherwise perfectly legitimate company—an estate agency, a club or a hotel.
To the housebuyer the banks can offer this because unlike societies they can offer bridging finance without constraint, estate agency and insurance broking services.
