Estate Agent Today's feature, headlined "Welcome to the Property Traitors…", borrows the language of the hit television format to frame a question that has long simmered beneath the surface of the UK housing market: who, exactly, can be trusted in a property transaction? While the piece leans on a cultural reference point familiar to millions of viewers, the underlying theme it raises - trust, information asymmetry and competing interests between agents, buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants - is one that professional investors and landlords cannot afford to treat as entertainment. In a market where chains collapse, gazumping persists and referral arrangements between agents and third parties are rarely disclosed in full, the question of whose interests are genuinely being served at each stage of a transaction has real financial consequences.