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  • Beware of Agents' Pet Building Inspectors!

    OPINIONby Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.BSolicitorConsumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au When will governments put in place stronger legislative measures to protect real estate consumers not only from self-serving real estate agents, but also from their own trusting natures? The story below from a school teacher client of mine, whilst ending ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on September 9, 2008
  • Preventing Estate Agents From Preparing Contracts

    by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.BSolicitorConsumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au   After firing more than a few verbal bullets over recent months at Queensland’s Attorney-General (and Fair Trading Minister) Kerry Shine in The Courier Mail and Gold Coast Bulletin newspapers, on ABC radio and here in the Australian Real Estate Blog, I ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on March 13, 2008
  • Guide For Buying and Selling

    Hi,   Most people who are buying or selling a home or property are usually a little nervous about doing so unless they have done it a few times. Is there much in the way of a guidebook available on the internet for helping folks to know what the process is when buying and selling real estate in Australia. As I read your forum posts, it ...
    Posted to Consumer Questions (Forum) by Tasmanian-Property.com on March 13, 2008
  • Real Estate Agents Preying On Battlers

    by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd   ''Real Estate Agents Preying On Battlers'' is the title of an article appearing on the ABC news website.  I invite visitors to read the item for themselves, but it is a comment to this item that I find ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on January 28, 2008
  • The "Oh", "Really?" and "I Wish I Had Known That!" of Making an Offer and Organising Finance

    by Shannyn HunterConveyancer shannyn@lawyersconveyancing.com.au Lawyers Conveyancing  On Monday morning purchasers can experience a real estate hangover. After a weekend of elation at finding their dream house and pressure from the agent to make an offer, with hesitation they sign on the dotted line and their concerns about legal ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Shannyn Hunter on January 24, 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
  • Non-Standard General Conditions

    by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd   At Lawyers Conveyancing we check a lot of real estate contracts as part of our pre-purchase legal advice service. Recently we have seen an increase in the number of contracts where the General Conditions have been ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on June 14, 2007
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