What is an agent?

A buyer's solicitor at your firm receives official copies of the register for a terraced house in Leeds. Someone has to read them, check who owns the property, note the mortgage that must be paid off, spot the restrictive covenant against running a business from the house and decide whether any of this needs to go in the report to the buyer. People now say an "agent" could do this. But "agent" is used for everything from a single prompt to a system that runs for hours. This lesson pins the word down, so that you can say exactly what you are building and, just as important, when you shouldn't build one at all.