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Responsibility for marketing residential properties

153Responsibility of the seller

(1)

The seller becomes responsible for marketing the property when action taken by him or on his behalf—

(a)

puts the property on the market; or

(b)

makes public the fact that the property is on the market.

(2)

That responsibility ceases when the following conditions are satisfied, namely—

(a)

there is at least one person acting as his estate agent who is responsible for marketing the property;

(b)

the seller has ceased to take any action which makes public the fact that the property is on the market; and

(c)

any such action being taken on the seller’s behalf has ceased.

(3)

In this section the references to action taken on behalf of the seller exclude action taken by or on behalf of a person acting as his estate agent.

(4)

Any responsibility arising under this section also ceases when the property is taken off the market or sold.