{"id":96468,"date":"2018-08-22T08:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T01:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-estate-agents-watchdog-working-on-guidelines-to-eliminate-fake-online-listings\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T08:03:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T01:03:59","slug":"hong-kong-estate-agents-watchdog-working-on-guidelines-to-eliminate-fake-online-listings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-estate-agents-watchdog-working-on-guidelines-to-eliminate-fake-online-listings\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong estate agents\u2019 watchdog working on guidelines to eliminate fake online listings"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe Estate Agents Authority (EAA) plans to crack down on misleading property advertisements as agents continue to market a host of properties at below-market values and even after they have been rented out.
\nLast week, Ricacorp Properties took the initiative to remove 9,000 property listings from more than 15,000 on its website because they either had false information or were duplicates, resulting from multiple uploads by different agents.
\nOther major agents including Centaline Property Agency…
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
\nRead more…Hong Kong estate agents\u2019 watchdog working on guidelines to eliminate fake online listings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Estate Agents Authority (EAA) plans to crack down on misleading property advertisements as agents...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-p5W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":95977,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/property-agent-ricacorp-removes-9000-fake-listings-as-it-takes-aim-at-rampant-industry-practice\/","url_meta":{"origin":96468,"position":0},"title":"Property agent Ricacorp removes 9,000 fake listings as it takes aim at rampant industry practice","date":"August 14, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Ricacorp Properties, one of the biggest real estate agencies in Hong Kong, has taken down thousands of false or duplicate property listings from its website, saying it wants to \u201cstamp out the shady industry practice\u201d. 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