An Auckland real estate agent has been charged with disgraceful conduct after he stayed the night at a property for sale.
In a decision released on April 27 the New Zealand Real Estate Agents Disciplinary Tribunal says former Bayleys agent Geoffrey Mairs spent the evening of February 27, 2017 at an apartment due to go to auction.
The house had been staged for the sale and the bed had been constructed out of buckets and two blow up mattresses. Mairs dismantled the bed, slept on one mattress and leaned the other against the wall.
The vendor's mother discovered him after she arrived at the property with an associate to check on it.
She noticed the disturbed bed and her associate heard somebody having a shower in the bathroom. The pair left and called the property's listing agent.
While they were outside Mairs attempted to leave and they confronted him, taking a photograph of him as evidence.
The mother contacted police and he was arrested for being unlawfully on the property.
The charges were later dropped.
He told the tribunal fellow Bayleys employee and the property's listing agent David Anderson had let him into the apartment and given him permission to sleep there.
However Mr Anderson said he did not give permission and had told Mairs he could not help him find somewhere to stay.
The tribunal sided with Mr Anderson and found Mairs had committed disgraceful conduct. The penalty is yet to be decided.
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