Advisory to CEA on Alliance for Action on Accurate Property Listings

The Council for Estate Agencies (“CEA”) sought CCCS’s advice on the Alliance for Action (“AfA”) on Accurate Property Listings and CEA’s intent to develop a digital platform to tackle the longstanding problem of dummy, unauthorised, inaccurate and duplicate property listings. CCCS advised that access to the platform should remain open to anyone who objectively meets a set criterion and that security safeguards should be in place such that the platform owner can control the access of the data and limit the sharing of data on a need-to-know basis to avoid the sharing of commercially sensitive information that could harm competition.