An actual property agent has been dominated unfit to apply by Northern Territory authorities after they discovered he wrote to a tenant in what could possibly be learn as a ‘bullying menace’.
Christos Raptis has been refused a licence by the Brokers Licencing Board of the NT following two separate complaints about his conduct first lodged in 2023.
The board additionally famous that Mr Raptis, a director of Adelaide-based Raptis Actual Property, was already operating a property administration enterprise within the NT regardless of not having the legally required licence.
In its findings, the board stated whereas there might need been no malicious intent by Mr Raptis he was ‘so incompetent’ that ‘mainly it appears he couldn’t fill out kinds’, studies NT Information.
Regarding the second criticism it stated: ‘Mr Raptis had created a hostile and nerve-racking atmosphere for (the complainant) as a tenant particularly citing experiencing harassment, victimisation, fuel lighting, threats of authorized motion, bullying and discrimination,’ it reads.
Christos Raptis was refused a licence to run an actual property enterprise within the NT after complaints
The Brokers Licencing Board of the NT was scathing in its findings.
‘General, the board has concluded that Mr Raptis has been conducting an actual property company enterprise (primarily property administration) within the NT when he didn’t know sufficient about NT legislation and apply to do the job competently and he was so incompetent in respect of basic points regarding property administration that he shouldn’t have had a licence at the moment,’ its choice reads.
‘The board accepts that Mr Raptis might be far more conscious of sure points of NT legislation arising from the processing of the complaints made in opposition to him.
‘Nevertheless, there are lots of different areas of NT legislation and apply that differ from these in place elsewhere in Australia.
‘The board doesn’t see it as sensible that it grant a licence topic to circumstances about Mr Raptis someway buying the related data or using individuals able to coping with NT points.
‘Except for the conduct points, the board is especially involved that Mr Raptis performed a enterprise figuring out that it was not complying with the elemental provision of the Act – that of the necessity for a licence.’
The NT Licencing Board was scathing saying it appeared Mr Raptis couldn’t ‘fill out kinds’
The board stated his conduct was ‘unbecoming and unacceptable for an actual property agent’ and refused him a licence.
On Mr Raptis’s actual property enterprise web page there are listings for properties primarily in Adelaide but additionally a handful within the NT, Victoria and NSW.
‘Actual Property is 24/7. For this reason we like it as a result of cash by no means sleeps,’ the web site states.
‘Our firm attracts a sure sort of clientele, similar to sure manufacturers in trend, motorsport and also you guessed it actual property.’
Each day Mail Australia has contacted Mr Raptis for remark.
