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Another year, another Quakers Hill agent suspended. This time it is DKB Real Estate founder Deepak Bangarh.

‘A victim of jealousy’: Another top-ranking Sydney real estate agent suspended

Deepak Bangarh’s suspension is quite the comedown, the agent having just been ranked the country’s third-best real estate agent by an industry award.

  • Lucy Macken

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The new revelations came at a critical point in the debate about how to tackle underquoting in Australia’s two largest cities.

‘I’ve had people in my office crying’: The three ways underquoting stings sellers

The revelations come at a critical point in the debate about how to tackle underquoting in Australia’s two largest cities.

  • Lucy Macken and Aisha Dow
Josh Tesolin is set to be hit with a second suspension on Friday.

Fresh claims against suspended estate agent ‘Teflon’ Josh Tesolin as he launches new career

If the star agent thought he’d heard all allegations against him from the regulator, he’s about to hear about a lot more.

  • Lucy Macken
Underquoting NSW.

‘Gobsmacked’: The worst Sydney suburbs for auction price guide blowouts

New data reveals Sydney’s inner west and eastern suburbs are hotspots for underquoting by real estate agents.

  • Nigel Gladstone
The Victorian government has proposed changes to auction laws.

‘Massive reform’: New laws will lock in pre-auction honesty

Real estate agents will be legally required to advertise a property’s reserve price at least a week before an auction or private sale deadline.

  • Aisha Dow
There a number of ways agents cover their tracks.

No offers, don’t ask, don’t tell: The real estate agent tricks used to duck price rules

Buyers are furious, experts aren’t surprised, and here’s how property underquoting rogues get away with it.

  • Aisha Dow
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The Herald’s Bidding Blind series has examined the property market.

Reforms to rein in estate agents’ rorts need more teeth

The Minns government pulls its punches on reforms to stop buyers bidding blind.

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Real estate agent Josh Tesolin has been fined.

9000 readers told us about underquoting. Now, the government has acted

Sydney’s real estate agents are on notice: big fines, new rules and mandated price guides are on the drawing board.

  • Lucy Macken and Aisha Dow
Rebecca Borkman and her partner Byron Tolley are among the thousands of Australians counting the cost of misleading price guides.

This couple spent $500 trying to buy their dream home. They never stood a chance

More than 5550 people told this masthead’s Bidding Blind investigation that they had spent money and time investigating properties that they would later discover they could not afford.

  • Aisha Dow
Bidding Blind.

‘Biggest liar gets the listing’: The tricks some agents use to pressure home sellers

Whistleblowing agents and property insiders working across Australia’s two largest cities say the practice of deliberately manipulating vendors through lies and other dirty tactics is “common”.

  • Lucy Macken and Aisha Dow