A former South Yarra estate agency and its director and officer in effective control (OIEC) have been reprimanded and disqualified from holding an estate agents licence for two years.
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LMG Commercial Property Services Pty Ltd and Leo Mark Grogan - Court outcome
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Sedinsi Pty Ltd and Peter Murray Daly - Court action
A director of a Southbank estate agency has been penalised $1,000 for contraventions of Victoria's estate agent laws.
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Danielle Talia and Bonds Real Estate Sales Pty Ltd Court outcome
A Doncaster East estate agent will have her licence suspended and, with her company, pay a total fine of $5,000, after she and the company accepted that they had knowingly employed a disqualified person as an agent’s representative.
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Danielle Talia and Bond's Real Estate Sales Pty Ltd - Court outcome
A Doncaster East estate agent will have her licence suspended and, with her company, pay a total fine of $5,000 to the Victorian Property Fund, after she and the company both accepted that they had knowingly employed a disqualified person as an agent’s representative.
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Bay Life Properties and Helen Sly - Court outcome
A Mount Eliza estate agency and its director and officer in effective control have each been penalised $8,500 for contravening Victorian estate agent laws.
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Gull and Company Pty Ltd - Court outcome
Ballarat estate agency Gull and Company has been reprimanded and penalised $5,000 by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) for operating without a licence during 2015.
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Manningham Property Group Pty Ltd (trading as Hocking Stuart Doncaster) - Court outcome
A real estate agency in Melbourne’s east will pay $160,000 after it admitted to engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct and making false and misleading representations about the sale of land.
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Hoskins (Maroondah) Pty Ltd and Brent Robert Peters - Commencement of action
The Director of Consumer Affairs Victoria has begun civil proceedings against estate agency Hoskins (Maroondah) Pty Ltd in the Federal Court of Australia, for alleged contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) in relation to property sales.
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Daiso Industries (Australia) Pty Ltd - Court outcome
A national retailer that sold unsafe and insufficiently labelled products to Victorian, New South Wales and Queensland consumers has been ordered to pay $1 million by the Federal Court of Australia.
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Fletcher & Parker (Balwyn) Pty Ltd - Court outcome
A real estate agency in Melbourne’s east will pay $880,000 after the Federal Court of Australia found it engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct and making false or misleading representations about property sales.
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Peter Maxwell Simmons - Court outcome
Estate agent Peter Maxwell Simmons, 66, has been banned from holding a licence, or acting as an agent’s representative, after Consumer Affairs Victoria was notified that more than $5,000 in trust account money was missing.
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Muralietharan Varadharajah - Court outcome
A rooming house operator will lose his licence after he was found guilty of offences under the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 and its regulations.
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Tim Phan - Court outcome
An Avondale Heights man who worked as a builder while unregistered has been ordered to refund three of his customers a total of more than $26,700 at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court.
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Walid El Haouli (trading as BRB Modular Homes) - Commencement of action
The Director of Consumer Affairs Victoria has begun civil proceedings against Walid El Haouli - trading as BRB Modular Homes – in Werribee Magistrates’ Court for alleged contraventions of the Domestic Building Contracts Act 1995 and the Australian Consumer Law (Victoria).
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Robert Pedersen and Robert Pedersen Real Estate Pty Ltd - Commencement of action
The Director of Consumer Affairs Victoria has applied to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) for inquiries into the matters of Robert Pedersen and Robert Pedersen Real Estate Pty Ltd.
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Nicholas Augerinos, trading as Quality Car Centre - Court outcome
A licensed motor car trader has given a 12 month good behaviour undertaking to the court and must pay $500 for contraventions of the Motor Car Traders Act 1986.
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The Reject Shop Ltd - Court outcome
National variety goods retailer The Reject Shop Ltd has been penalised $140,000 after admitting that it contravened the product safety provisions of the Australian Consumer Law (Victoria) by selling projectile toys.
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Melbourne Deluxe Real Estate Pty Ltd (trading as Melbourne Deluxe) and Paul Wayne Pfeiffer - Court outcome
An estate agent must repay $69,000 in compensation; been fined $25,000; and sentenced to a two-year community corrections order, after pleading guilty to charges including fraudulent conversion.
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Tri Duc (Joseph) Ngo - Court outcome
A former Glen Waverley estate agent has been sentenced to five years’ jail, after pleading guilty to 48 charges of misusing more than $6 million of his clients’ money, in breach of the Estate Agents Act 1980.
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Realestate Property Pty Ltd - Commencement of action
Consumer Affairs Victoria has commenced criminal proceedings in the Warrnambool Magistrates’ Court against estate agency Realestate Property Pty Ltd, for alleged breaches of the Estate Agents Act 1980.
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