Contact Consumer Protection
Tel: 1300 30 40 54
consumer@dmirs.wa.gov.au
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Selling property
All Australian businesses must comply with the Australian Consumer Law. This law also applies to the property industry.
- Consumer guarantees on goods and services
- Unconscionable conduct
- Unfair contract laws
- False or misleading representations
- Misleading or deceptive conduct
What we do:
- Provide advice and information on licensing and consumer laws for property to agents
- Provide consumer advice on buying and selling property
- Set limits to settlement agent fees
- Issue licences and certificates of registration
- real estate agents (RA/RB)
- real estate sales representatives (RR)
- settlement agents (SA/SB)
- land valuers (LV)
Recent scams have seen both real estate agents and their clients suffer massive losses. Please keep your clients and your business safe from unscrupulous scammers by ensuring 100 point ID checks are completed.
Keep up to date with industry bulletins
You can keep up to date with any news or information about your industry by reading and subscribing to any of the property industry bulletins:
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