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Estate agent fined for ‘fly-boarding’ homes not for sale

UK: An estate agent put up sold signs on properties which had never been for sale, trading standards officers said today.

Mark Halls, of Debenham, Suffolk, pretended that his firm had sold houses to increase customer confidence, officials said.

Halls, managing director of Seaton’s Estate Agency - which has branches in Woodbridge, Suffolk and Ipswich, Suffolk - admitted five breaches of the Trade Descriptions Act, said Suffolk County Council’s trading standards department.

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