Queensland woman shocked to find her home for sale

A Queensland woman has told of her shock when she discovered her house was up for sale despite not authorising the listing.

Kate Cornish said she wanted to renovate her house before potentially putting it up for sale.

To find out how much her home might fetch, she asked First National Real Estate Carolans for an appraisal.

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Ms Cornish travelled from Brisbane to meet with a different agency at her house to get another appraisal but when she arrived she couldn't believe what she saw.

There was a "for sale" sign and an agent's flag out the front, which she said was a clear indication of an open home, even though her house wasn't on the market.

"At first I was just a bit gobsmacked," Ms Cornish said.

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"I didn't even know what was going on and then I got angry.

"I came up and I confronted the agent and said 'what are you doing here?'"

A Current Affair phoned First National Real Estate Carolans principal Peter Wrigley to get to the bottom of what happened.

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He said one of his agents made a simple mistake and that the innocent oversight could have actually benefited Ms Cornish.

"He (the real estate agent) had misinterpreted what I had said. He thought that we had a form six, which is an appointment to act and I had spoken to him on the Friday and he thought we had an appointment to act which we didn't," Mr Wrigley told A Current Affair.

"He was trying to help the owner sell the property without having to spend any marketing and if possible, sell it without having to pay any renovations."

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