Estate agents
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Sorrell and another v Finch
Pre-contract deposit with estate agent–Vendor does not impliedly or ostensibly authorise estate agent to receive such a deposit, whether as agent for the vendor, ‘stakeholder,’ or in any other capacity–A…
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Knight v Calderlodge Developments and others
Estate agent claims right to be appointed sole selling agent, ‘at any rate in the first instance,’ for houses erected on sites found by him for developer–Developer said to have…
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Ronald Preston & Partners v Markheath Securities plc
Estate agents — Commission and fees — Estate agents fail to establish claim against property developers — Judge’s sympathy with agents, but evidence insufficient — Plaintiff estate agents, who had…
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Spiers v Taylor and another
Estate agents — Commission — Action by agents against vendor — Terms of instructions were ‘the property to be advertised without cost to the vendor and entered on the agents’…
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Espley v Williams
Estate agents — Covenant restrictive of practice within two-year two-mile radius — Whether valid and enforceable
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Kinney & Green v Johns and another
Surveyors’ fees — Claim by chartered surveyors for fees and disbursements for arranging funding for property development — Defendants, an individual and a company controlled by him (but the claim…
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Robinson Scammell & Co v Ansell and another
Estate agents’ commission — Successful appeal by estate agents against decision of county court judge holding that they were not, in the events which had happened, entitled to commission on…
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Graylaw Investments Ltd v J R Bridgford & Sons
Action by property company against estate agents for alleged breach of authority as agents fails — Plaintiff company wished to obtain vacant possession of Rhodesia House in Manchester, a building…
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John D Wood & Co v Dantata
Estate agents’ commission — Claims for commission by two firms of estate agents alleged to be due from the vendor on the sale of the same property to the same…
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Donald Storrie Estate Agency Ltd v Adams and another
Estate agents — Restraint of trade on sale of estate agency business — Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 — Whether a sales agreement and service agreement together constituted one agreement…
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Letgain Ltd v Super Cement Ltd
Estate agents — Whether estate agent negligently failed to display ‘for sale’ boards and failed to advertise or market the property properly
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Kenney v Hall, Pain & Foster
Figure quoted by estate agents as price likely to be realised on sale of purchaser’s own property held to be a valuation and to have been negligent–Damages of £40,225 awarded…