Competition record
Greenslade Taylor Hunt
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Greenslade Taylor Hunt is a West Country estate agency with offices across the region, including auctions and rural property. Its Burnham-on-Sea business was part of the six-agent commission floor the CMA fined in 2017.
Overview
Greenslade Taylor Hunt is a regional firm, not a one-office shop. It sells houses, farms, and other property across Somerset and neighboring counties, and it runs auctions. Burnham-on-Sea is one town in that network. The cartel finding is about the fee agreement in that town, and this profile does not spread it across every office.
Six Burnham agents, Greenslade Taylor Hunt among them, agreed a 1.5% minimum commission on residential sales. A seller in the town who asked the participating agents for a fee heard the same floor. The CMA's decision came in 2017.
Five firms paid about £370,000 in total, and one firm received immunity for coming forward. Which of those roles belonged to Greenslade Taylor Hunt is left unidentified, as it is for the other Burnham agents.
Competition footprint
A regional brand can still be a party to a cartel in a single town's fee list.
The 1.5% floor applied to traditional residential sales in Burnham-on-Sea.
The fine total and the immunity grant are case-wide facts, not assigned to this firm here.
Consumer & business angle
Burnham homeowners who listed with the participating agents were the customers of the floor.
The firm's other offices compete for different instructions, which are outside the conduct the CMA described.
What to watch
- Local-office fee talks inside a regional agency, which can create a town cartel the rest of the firm does not see.
- The Abbott and Frost and Gary Berryman profiles, which are the other Burnham firms in this scale file.
Markets
residential estate agency · West Country property · local professional services · small business cartels
Also known as: greenslade taylor hunt, gth