REAL ESTATE COUNCIL OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
In the matter of the Real Estate Services Act
S.B.C. 2004 ch. 42
AND in the matter of a Consent Order pursuant to Section 41 of the Real Estate Services Act
Respondent: STELLA SUK CHUN TSE
File: 331-05
Date of Consent Order: April 16, 2009
Issue: Stella Suk Chun Tse, associate broker, Royal Pacific Riverside Realty Ltd., Richmond, while licensed with Langara Realty Corp. dba Sutton Group – Langara Realty, Vancouver, entered into a Consent Order with the Council in which she consented to an Order that she committed professional misconduct within the meaning of section 35 of the Real Estate Services Act by contravening sections 35(1)(a) and 35(1)(d) of the Real Estate Services Act and sections 3-3, 3-4, 5-8 and 5-10 of the Council Rules in that she: (a) failed to disclose to her first buyer client, prior to providing trading services, that she expected to provide trading services on behalf of other parties to the same trade in real estate; (b) failed to disclose to her first buyer client a substantive change in the representation that was being offered; (c) failed to act with reasonable care and skill in the drafting of the Contract of Purchase and Sale for the first buyers; and (d) acted in a conflict of interest when she continued to act as a limited dual agent for the seller and three buyers in the subject transaction without obtaining the consent of all of the buyers to so act.
Result: Stella Suk Chun Tse was suspended for twenty-one (21) days from June 10, 2009 to June 30, 2009 (inclusive), and ordered to successfully complete the disciplinary education assignment applicable to Chapter 2 (The Real Estate Services Act) of the Real Estate Trading Services Licensing Course, enrol in and attend the first available “What Brokerages and REALTORSÃ’ Need to Know about Agency ” course and pay enforcement expenses to the Council in the amount of $750.00.
P: May 21, 2009 R: May 21, 2013