Consumer mark company SAFEagent, which denotes safe' letting agents covered by Client Money Protection schemes, says it ias surprised and disappointed that the government has not made CMP mandatory.
Housing minister Brandon Lewis recently told SAFEagent that the government had no plan to introduce an amendment to the Consumer Rights Bill to make inclusion in a CMP scheme mandatory for all lettings and management agents.
Since we wrote to the minister an amendment to the Consumer Rights Bill on the introduction of mandatory CMP has been laid in the House of Lords by Labour Peer, Baroness Hayter and we give her our full support" says John Midgley.
He chairs the SAFEagent Steering Group which comprises representatives from Belvoir, Countrywide, Foxtons, Hunters, Leaders, Northwood, Spicerhaart, Touchstone, Winkworth and Xperience.
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Fair play to the SAFE team - at least they are doing something unlike many of the so called regulators who claim to fly the flag for better standards - after all these years they have achieved very little.
read eromallid backwards and you get dilamore ... Hello Laurence - you are spot on.
The irony is that it seems likely that from next year, letting agents in Wales will need to have CMP as part of the Principalities future regulatory intentions. Having invested more than 650,000 in funding and promoting NALS between 2002 & 2005 specifically as an industry 'kite mark', it seems quite absurd for Lewis + DCLG to ignore the regulatory opportunities that basic accreditation would provide