I do not condone practices recently brought to our notice by which some auctioneers deliberately breach codes of ethics and conduct by wilfully underestimating the guide prices of properties advertised for auction or fail to divulge the square footage of properties they are selling or the size of rooms. This trend is wrong and must be condemned. Legislation must be introduced to rectify this problem and make the system more transparent. This is what society demands of professions and the auctioneering profession is no different from others. We already have codes of conduct and ethics.