What should the Real Estate industry do to prevent this?

I believe that the professional body - here I mean the Institute for Estate Agents should act as a watchdog and have its own systems and procedures in place to ensure that a person that is a member of the institute meets a given set of quality control requirements. One of theses methods would be that the IEA not recognise the results of training providers that have been implicated in dubious practices.

OOBA - another useful site for the property consumer.

http://www.ooba.co.za/site/index/bond

This is neat!

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Professionalisation of the industry - a view.

A short article on professionalisation of the industry in SA: http://www.realestateinvestor.com/media/blog/4696/

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