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OPINIONby Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerQualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd
Peter Francis is a high-flying legal-eagle with the high-powered law firm Maddocks Lawyers of Melbourne. Peter Francis wrote a letter to a vendor of real estate on behalf of a very well known real Melbourne estate ...
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by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer and Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Lawyers Real Estate As mentioned in our previous posting, the dummy bid never went away, it simply mutated into more insidious forms. According to ''Secret Agent'' (The Sunday Age, 4 June, 06, Domain p.2):
''A Government watchdog, the Estate Agents ...
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From domain.com.au ''Tougher dummy bidding laws were introduced to the real-estate industry last weekend on one of the year's busiest auction days last Saturday.'' But contrary to what Fair Trading Minister Diane Beamer suggests in the article, we do not believe that increased penalties enhance consumer confidence in auctions or the real estate ...
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OPINIONby Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerQualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd
It's time for consumers to get serious about the tricks and criminal conduct associated with real estate auctions. As most of the criminal conduct associated with auctions takes place when the auction is in ...
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Opinion by Neil Jenman Consumer Advocate
Victoria's real estate industry is embroiled in another scandal. This time, the body at the centre of the scandal is the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (the REIV) and its CEO, Mr Enzo Raimondo.
The REIV is an industry association whose members comprise around 80 per cent of the state's 6,000 estate ...
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by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer and Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Lawyers Real Estate
Consumers are starting to wake up! Finally the market has turned on an auctioneer, and refused to be manipulated. Although it was tucked away on page 5 of yesterday's Sunday Herald-Sun newspaper (Sunday Herald-Sun p.5 4 March, ...
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Opinion by Neil Jenman Consumer Advocate
For many years, the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) has misled and deceived real estate consumers. Whether it be trying to justify (or deny) dodgy practices such as false price quoting or whether it's brushing-aside common claims of widespread dishonesty, as far as real estate bodies go, they ...
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by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd
It's not often that I have to agree with the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV), but they have a point when they question the competence and resolve of Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV).
In an article titled ...
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by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd
In his weekly propaganda piece in The Age newspaper (The Age ''Domain'' 29 September, 2007 p.3) CEO of the Real Estate Institute of Victoria, Enzo Raimondo makes something of a Freudian slip when he says, ''Agents ...
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by Tim O’Dwyer M.A., LL.B Queensland Solicitor & Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Queensland’s Beattie Government has changed the law on auctions. It took six years, despite Fair Trading Ministers’ regular boasting about the world’s best real estate consumer protection laws, to realise the wishy-washiness of its Code of Conduct ...
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