Edward Cumming

Estate agents: we were right about the bastards all along

But they’re not entirely to blame for expensive housing

One sympathises with agents to an extent: it’s not entirely their fault that houses are so expensive [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 26 April 2014

Television executives must be longing to make a programme about estate agents that casts the agents in a good light. There would be a national outrage, and in these Twittering, Facebooking times nothing is more appealing to a producer than a bulging digital postbag. Under Offer: Estate Agents on the Job (BBC2, Wednesday) is, sad to say, not that series.

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