Agent fined for operating without registration

PHOTO: Perth Magistrates Court

A Western Australian woman took money from her employer to get her real estate registration certificate, but she never showed up for the training course.

Jane Ford has been fined $2,000 and ordered to pay costs of nearly $350 by the Perth Magistrates Court for falsely operating as a property manager without the proper registration.

Ms Ford worked for a Willetton property management company where she started as an administrative assistant in early 2015.

The agency gave her money to complete her training to get her certificate of registration so she could become a property manager, but she failed to go to any of the training courses to meet the qualification requirements.

The court heard how she supplied her employer with a certificate of registration that had her name on it, but it has the registration number of another person.

In the nine months following August 2018, Ms Ford negotiated and signed six lease agreement on behalf of her employer.