Latest news Skip listen and sharing tools Listen Filter by category All News alerts Industry updates Legislation updates Media releases Public warnings Enforceable undertakings Court actions Showing articles tagged with 'Estate agents' Zhenhua Yang and Ausco Real Estate Pty Ltd - Court outcome Court actions 25 October 2021 A former real estate agent has received an 18-month Community Corrections Order and must complete 300 hours of community service after being convicted of trust account offences. Trust account audit requirements for estate agents and conveyancers during COVID 19 - News alert News alerts 13 September 2021 Consumer Affairs Victoria is offering extensions of time to help licensed real estate agents and conveyancers affected by COVIDSafe Settings submit their trust account audits. Harald Simon Michaelis - Court outcome Court actions 27 August 2021 A former real estate agent has received a two-year Community Corrections Order and must complete 100 hours of community service after being convicted of trust account offences. Amit Miglani and SNM Properties Pty Ltd (trading as MIG Real Estate) - Court outcome Court actions 4 August 2021 The Officer in Effective Control of a former western suburbs estate agency has narrowly avoided an immediate jail term, after being convicted of misusing his clients’ money. Protecting homebuyers from underquoting News alerts 20 July 2021 Consumer Affairs Victoria has been conducting a range of compliance and educational activities to help ensure homebuyers don’t experience the illegal practice of underquoting. Thomas Aloysius - Court outcome Court actions 16 July 2021 An estate agent’s representative has been given a criminal conviction and fined $8,000 after he asked a purchaser to pay some of their deposit to his personal bank account instead of to the agency’s trust account on behalf of the vendors who had engaged him to help sell their home. Waterdale property agent - Commencement of action Court actions 11 June 2021 Consumer Affairs Victoria has commenced criminal action against a real estate agency which allegedly served Notices to vacate illegally under laws introduced to protect renters during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Targeting trust account audits - News alert News alerts 31 May 2021 Consumer Affairs Victoria has issued 117 infringement notices amounting to $120,000 and official warnings to estate agents who failed to lodge their trust account audit reports for last year. Amit Miglani and SNM Properties (trading as MIG Real Estate) - Commencement of action Court actions 14 April 2021 The Officer in Effective Control of a former western suburbs estate agency has been charged with diverting more than $150,000 from the trust accounts of his clients. Harold Simon Michaelis and Boston & Brighton Property Consultants Pty Ltd - Commencement of action Court actions 23 February 2021 The Director of Consumer Affairs Victoria has started criminal action against Harold Simon Michaelis and Boston & Brighton Property Consultants Pty Ltd, for alleged breaches of Victorian estate agent laws. Go to: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Page 1 of 11 Next
Zhenhua Yang and Ausco Real Estate Pty Ltd - Court outcome Court actions 25 October 2021 A former real estate agent has received an 18-month Community Corrections Order and must complete 300 hours of community service after being convicted of trust account offences.
Trust account audit requirements for estate agents and conveyancers during COVID 19 - News alert News alerts 13 September 2021 Consumer Affairs Victoria is offering extensions of time to help licensed real estate agents and conveyancers affected by COVIDSafe Settings submit their trust account audits.
Harald Simon Michaelis - Court outcome Court actions 27 August 2021 A former real estate agent has received a two-year Community Corrections Order and must complete 100 hours of community service after being convicted of trust account offences.
Amit Miglani and SNM Properties Pty Ltd (trading as MIG Real Estate) - Court outcome Court actions 4 August 2021 The Officer in Effective Control of a former western suburbs estate agency has narrowly avoided an immediate jail term, after being convicted of misusing his clients’ money.
Protecting homebuyers from underquoting News alerts 20 July 2021 Consumer Affairs Victoria has been conducting a range of compliance and educational activities to help ensure homebuyers don’t experience the illegal practice of underquoting.
Thomas Aloysius - Court outcome Court actions 16 July 2021 An estate agent’s representative has been given a criminal conviction and fined $8,000 after he asked a purchaser to pay some of their deposit to his personal bank account instead of to the agency’s trust account on behalf of the vendors who had engaged him to help sell their home.
Waterdale property agent - Commencement of action Court actions 11 June 2021 Consumer Affairs Victoria has commenced criminal action against a real estate agency which allegedly served Notices to vacate illegally under laws introduced to protect renters during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Targeting trust account audits - News alert News alerts 31 May 2021 Consumer Affairs Victoria has issued 117 infringement notices amounting to $120,000 and official warnings to estate agents who failed to lodge their trust account audit reports for last year.
Amit Miglani and SNM Properties (trading as MIG Real Estate) - Commencement of action Court actions 14 April 2021 The Officer in Effective Control of a former western suburbs estate agency has been charged with diverting more than $150,000 from the trust accounts of his clients.
Harold Simon Michaelis and Boston & Brighton Property Consultants Pty Ltd - Commencement of action Court actions 23 February 2021 The Director of Consumer Affairs Victoria has started criminal action against Harold Simon Michaelis and Boston & Brighton Property Consultants Pty Ltd, for alleged breaches of Victorian estate agent laws.