Estate agency staff braced for fallout from BBC investigation
As media coverage intensifies, public trust in estate agents is taking another battering
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Panorama exposes conditional selling by estate agents
Panorama goes undercover at Connells to investigate claims it is not acting in the best interests of customers; reporter also speaks to a whistleblower who worked at Purplebricks