Two Quebec Real Estate Brokers Suspended for Using Fake Bids to Drive up Prices

Two Quebec Real Estate Brokers Suspended for Using Fake Bids to Drive up Prices
A "sold" sign in a new housing development in LaSalle, a borough of Montreal, on Feb. 19, 2024. The Canadian Press/Christinne Muschi
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Two Quebec real estate brokers are facing fines and years-long suspensions for submitting bogus offers on homes to drive up prices during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Christine Girouard has been suspended for 14 years and her business partner, Jonathan Dauphinais-Fortin, has been suspended for nine years after Quebec’s authority of real estate brokerage found they used fake bids to get buyers to raise their offers.