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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
  • What If The Estate Agent Has Already Spent The Commission?

    by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd   As any lawyer or conveyancer will confirm, a contract may have to be cancelled for a variety of reasons, even after it has become unconditional.  But what if the estate agent has already spent the ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on January 31, 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
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