Showing articles tagged with 'Buying and selling property'
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Real estate agents are being reminded of their responsibilities under Victoria’s underquoting laws – and the potential consequences of not meeting them – as our taskforce launched legal action this week against a Yarraville estate agency and its director.
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Our Consumer Affairs Underquoting Taskforce kicked off its autumn sales season inspection blitz on Saturday, monitoring more than 50 property auctions in the Doncaster area to check compliance with underquoting laws.
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A Footscray real estate agent who improperly advertised the selling price of a Kew property in 2023 has been fined $7,000 after pleading guilty in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court.
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Consumer Affairs Victoria has filed criminal charges against licensed estate agent, Daniela Vella, 52, of Essendon West, for allegedly misusing client trust account funds from August to October 2020.
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A real estate agent who misused rent and bond money has had his licence to practice cancelled for 10 years.
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A Cranbourne estate agent is facing disciplinary action for failing to have his company’s trust accounts audited for 4 years.
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Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV) is taking Ray White Oakleigh and estate agent Nick Strilakos to the Federal Court for alleged misleading and deceptive conduct and making false and misleading statements in breach of the Australian Consumer Law.
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We’re taking disciplinary action against an estate agent who we allege deliberately failed to comply with her trust account audit obligations over four years.
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After operating successfully for 2 years, Consumer Affairs Victoria’s underquoting taskforce will now be established permanently.
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A former estate agent who misused over $180,000 in trust account funds was sentenced to 4 months in prison and a 2-year Community Corrections Order in the County Court yesterday.