Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices: 2.2.5.1.4 Isolated sale of real estate by owner
Although there is some disagreement,1083 a number of courts have ruled that, even where a UDAP statute generally applies to real estate sales, it does not apply to the isolated sale of real estate by a nonmerchant.1084 This should be viewed as an attempt to keep consumer-to-consumer sales transactions outside the UDAP statute’s scope, and not an attempt to exclude all real estate practices from the state’s coverage.1085 Even though a court ma