Real Estate Disciplines
Following are recent disciplinary actions taken by the Real Estate Division of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Visit their website for more details and the most current disciplinary action.
- Real estate broker license fined $2,000 and required to complete an ethics course for providing a client with the lockbox code to access a property without being present.
- Real estate broker license revoked and fined $5,000 for representing and performing licensed activities for an unlicensed entity; aiding and abetting the unlicensed practice; engaging in advertising that was misleading and contrary to the Act; failing to disclose in writing their status as a licensee to all parties in the transaction despite having an interest in the real estate; and engaging in dishonorable, unethical, and unprofessional conduct of a character likely to deceive, defraud, or harm the public.
- Real estate broker fined $1,000 and ordered to complete a class for failure to obtain written confirmation of prior consent to dual agency and marketing a property before her sponsor signed the listing agreement.
- Real estate broker license indefinitely suspended for a minimum period of one year and fined $5,000 for failure to provide information requested by the Department and obstructing an investigation.
- Real estate limited liability firm license fined $1,000 for failing to sign the written listing agreement prior to marketing the property.
- Real estate broker license fined $1,000 for improperly writing commission checks out of escrow.
- Real estate broker license fined $1,000 for failure to supervise a sponsored license.
- Real estate broker license revoked and fined $10,000 due to a prior felony conviction for aggravated battery causing bodily harm or disability or disfigurement to any child under the age of 13 years in case number 2020CF49 (Boone County, IL) and two counts of the felony offense of Harassment of a Witness in case number 2023CF233 (Boone County, IL).
- Real estate broker license revoked due to a criminal conviction for aggravated criminal sexual abuse, indecent solicitation of a child, and grooming in case number 217CF209 (Franklin County, IL).
- Real estate managing broker license revoked due to criminal convictions for criminal sexual abuse by force or threat of force and aggravated battery in a public place, in case number 25CR0073101 (Cook County, IL).
- Real estate broker license is suspended for one year and placed on probation upon returning to active status due to a felony conviction.
- Real Estate Residential Leasing Agent license is indefinitely suspended for violating the terms of the department’s consent order.
- Real estate broker license suspended for failure to file and/or pay Illinois state income taxes.
