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Given relatively low barriers to entry, there\u2019s been considerable chat in property investment circles in recent times about the merits or otherwise of the rapidly growing Buyers Agent sector, and to combat this, the Real Estate Buyers Agents Association or REBAA, has been working hard for many years to ensure members abide by a strict code of professional conduct.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given relatively low barriers to entry, there\u2019s been considerable chat in property investment circles in recent times about the merits or otherwise of the rapidly growing Buyers Agent sector, and to combat this, the Real Estate Buyers Agents Association or REBAA, has been working hard…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176692473,"featured_media":36286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,34,10,11,13,36,142,22,24,25,27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buying-a-property-topic","category-finance-topic","category-kevin-turner-sponsored-channels","category-kevin-update","category-latest-story","category-property-investment-topic","category-real-estate-talk","category-research-topic","category-shows","category-sponsored-channels","category-trends-topic","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"\nIs it too easy to be a buyers agent? 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