The Real Estate Agents Disciplinary Tribunal has cancelled the licence of an agent who slept in an Auckland property listed for sale and was caught having a shower there the next morning.
The tribunal found Geoffrey Mairs guilty of disgraceful conduct, Stuff reports.
In February last year, the property owner's mother had found Mairs in the apartment in Mission Bay which was listed for sale by Bayleys.
The police were called and he took off after telling the owner's mother he had been preparing to show someone through the property, which was untrue.
Mairs told police he had gone to the apartment early to shower before he was due to meet a client there.
He told the tribunal he had had nowhere to stay the night and that a colleague had told him the property was available.
But the tribunal accepted the colleague's account that he had left the keys for the apartment on his desk and did not know Mairs had taken them.
The tribunal said Mairs showed no insight into the severity of his behaviour, still protesting his innocence and planning an appeal.
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