Solutions on misleading real state advertising
According to the report the Department of Consumer Protection has been released their statement that they are willing to work with local real estate agents to stay away from confusing and inaccurate advertising of real estate property listings. This has been decided from the recent issues regarding the unstoppable complaints from local agents. From the department and real estate industry said that as long online real estate advertising supplied precise and meaningful information in relation to property locations, they were ready to be flexible. On the other hand they said that the easiest way for agents to precisely promote a property was to use the suburb listed on the property title.
In accordance to the report the Department is having an investigation among its local agents after the Real Estates and Business Advisory Board collect and get a complain on the subject of real estate property in being advertised as Bunbury and South Bunbury and not its real locality.
“That very broad description of Bunbury and South Bunbury could perhaps be misleading. Agents could be trying to embellish the property by saying that it was in Bunbury rather than in the less salubrious locality.” Director of business services Susan Nulsen said.
However according to Real Estate Institute of Western Australia Bunbury secretary Graeme Emmerson said that the department’s proposal might adds another confusion among investors. “You would have Bunbury, and then to have the legal locality you would say Davenport, and then for people to actually know where it was you would have Hallifax.” Mr Emmerson said both the board and the department of consumer protection had used the same investigator to follow up the complaint.
