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Compliance, plain English.

For NZ real estate agents who want to stay on the right side of the rules.

44% of the Floor Never Existed

How one wrong number survived a decade

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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.

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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.

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A Facebook Group Just Became a Privacy Act Agency.

Every Agent Should Be Paying Attention.

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"He grabbed my phone"

A secret commission split, a recalled WeChat message, and the two weeks of silence that did the real damage.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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