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  • Another Nail in the Auction Coffin

    by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerQualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd   The Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) has been forced to come clean, and to admit to consumers that ''...no binding contract exists until the successful bidder and the vendor have signed a contract.'' A ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on February 14, 2008
  • Who Will Pay The (Legal) Ferrymen?

     by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.BSolicitorConsumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au   Below are comments I have received independently from a couple of legal colleagues. They are clearly quite concerned about the ‘costs consequences’ of conveyancing solicitors’, rather than real estate agents’, preparing sales contracts. The first ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on November 29, 2007
  • Pricing Propaganda From REIV

    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 ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on September 29, 2007
  • Richard Wood Solicitors - Who Needs To Know?

    by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerConveyancerConsumer Advocatepeter@lawyersconveyancing.com.au   I have discussed the way in which payments to estate agents can become illegal secret commissions if they are not disclosed, and how the disclosure of payments tends to work against the purpose of the payments.  In the absence ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on September 20, 2007
  • Richard Wood Solicitors Letter – What If The Right Way Doesn’t Pay!

    by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerConveyancerConsumer Advocatepeter@lawyersconveyancing.com.au   In the absence of evidence to the contrary, we must assume that Richard Wood Solicitors and Barry Plant Real Estate have done everything the law requires of them in relation to gifts offered to estate agents in return for client ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on September 4, 2007
  • Early Release of Deposit

    by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer and Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Lawyers Real Estate Enzo Raimondo, CEO of the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (R.E.I.V.) regularly provides consumers with his understanding of the law affecting the sale of real estate. Unfortunately, Enzo's explanation of these laws is often quite ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on April 29, 2007
  • Why Queensland Estate Agents Don't Give Discounts

    by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Queensland Solicitor & Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Will the apparent upturn in Queensland housing prices mean discounted real estate commission rates? Will agents charge sellers less as homes are reportedly sold within days, if not hours, of going on the market? The answer is no – to both ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on April 28, 2007
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