Compliance, plain English.
For NZ real estate agents who want to stay on the right side of the rules.
The disclaimer that stopped working
In July 2021, a Barfoot salesperson looked at the aerial photos of a Takapuna commercial building and told the office where to draw the boundary in.
Read article →Eleven years later, nobody had the file
The agent won. But nobody could prove what she said in 2013.
Read article →Your Name Is On the Listing
The product world has just decided that humans must sign the work. NZ Real estate has had that rule since 2009.
Read article →The Wrong Rulebook
Why generic AI compliance scanning misses what actually ends careers in New Zealand real estate
Read article →Compliance checks transactions. Fraud lives in the representations
A Christchurch real estate agent collected commissions on thirteen property sales over eight years. She wasn't the agent on any of them
Read article →When the record is the fiction
$9.44m Auckland judgment, and why the paperwork is the part to worry about。
Read article →44% of the Floor Never Existed
How one wrong number survived a decade
Read article →A Pattern of Indifference
2 tribunal decisions, 8 years apart, same agent — and the question of who actually holds compliance memory in NZ real estate.
Read article →The Agent Who Never Met His Client
Kicker: A Remuera listing, a WeChat thread, and why "the family said it's fine" is not a legal category.
Read article →A Facebook Group Just Became a Privacy Act Agency.
Every Agent Should Be Paying Attention.
Read article →"He grabbed my phone"
A secret commission split, a recalled WeChat message, and the two weeks of silence that did the real damage.
Read article →Two agents got it wrong. One was disciplined, one wasn't
Same rule, opposite outcomes. The line isn't whether you were wrong — it's what your statement was built on.
Read article →Won Twice. Lost Anyway.
An agent overturned the same disciplinary finding on appeal — twice. They still got censured, fined, and sent back to training. The reason is the most boring th
Read article →Everyone Is Building a Faster Agent. I'm Building a Memory.
Why Resaido exists — and why it was never about efficiency.
Read article →Not everything that runs by itself is an agent
Most of Resaido is a workflow, on purpose. The real work was figuring out where the agent actually belongs.
Read article →The friendliest sentence at the open home
The words that cost buyers the most aren't lies. They're warm and reassuring. Here's what the disciplinary decisions show, and the one move that protects you.
Read article →They were promised the view. One of the agents was married to the developer.
A real estate disciplinary decision I was reading this week. The agents didn't lie, exactly. They got done anyway, and the reason is the whole job.
Read article →The most expensive thing a real estate agent never says
I read a few hundred New Zealand real estate disciplinary decisions to build my ai tool. What agents actually get disciplined for surprised me.
Read article →5 Compliance Risks NZ Real Estate Agents Don't Realise They're Taking
Most agents break at least one rule without knowing it. Here are the ones that actually lead to complaints — with real examples from NZ buyers and agents.
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