BC realtor who assaulted colleague, client, while high on drugs at open house loses licence

A BC realtor, who assaulted two people while high on drugs during an open house, has been ordered to pay $2,500 and had his licence cancelled.

According to a Dec. 22, 2025, BC Financial Services Authority decision, Christopher James Simpson was helping a colleague out at the open house when he appeared to have a seizure and blacked out.

“Mr. Simpson collapsed… then regained consciousness and became violent,” the decision reads.

The Vancouver-based relator then assaulted his realtor colleague and a prospective client.

He was found lying on the ground in a state of anxiety when the police arrived.

“Mr. Simpson was not violent and was cooperative, expressing he wanted to go to the hospital. He told the Vancouver Police Department he had consumed 12 or more (alcoholic) beverages as well as (drugs),” a police report said.

A medical report found that Simpson had experienced a likely drug-induced psychosis from drug use.

He said he’d been sober for two months but relapsed.

“He said he had not slept for more than an hour here and there in the last several days, he had been using substances throughout the previous night, and that morning he continued to drink alcohol and added (drugs) into his bottle of Gatorade as he walked to the… open house,” the decision says. “He explained that normally he wouldn’t use substances with work but lately he had been blurring the lines with responsibility.”

The incident happened in June 2023, and Simpson said his only memory was walking to the open house and then waking up at his parents’ house three days later.

“He did not recall consuming alcohol or (drugs) on June 11, 2023. He acknowledged that he was using recreational drugs during June 2023 but does not believe he would have consumed those substances while working,” the decision said.

He was on anti-anxiety medication at the time and had been experiencing physical and mental health issues.

Following the incident, Simpson, who had worked for Dexter Realty Vancouver Homer Street, was fired and let his licence expire.

The real estate regulator said helping out at the open house while under the influence of psychoactive substances and then physically assaulting and injuring two individuals was professional misconduct.

Simpson signed a consent order with the BC Financial Services Authority admitting to his behaviour. The regulator ordered him to pay $2,500 in costs and cancelled his licence.