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  • Licensed Conveyancing - Deader Than Dead!

    OPINIONby Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerQualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd   There are hard times ahead for the real estate conveyancing industry, and particularly for licensed conveyancers. Since non-lawyer conveyancers became licensed their lot has become ever more difficult. On ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on July 6, 2009
  • Conveyancing For Both Parties - A High Risk Practice

    OPINIONby Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.BSolicitorConsumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au   Acting for both parties is an unwise, high-risk practice for solicitors and their trusting clients. It should be prohibited absolutely by law. Brisbane solicitor Richard Ebbott is mentioned twice in real estate rebel Neil Jenman’s book, DON’T SIGN ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on March 24, 2009
  • Solicitors Can Make Conveyancing Mistakes

    OPINIONby Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.BSolicitorConsumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au   An Appeal Court has ruled that a father and his daughter validly escaped a developer’s option to buy their property because of a solicitor’s slackness over the Christmas-New Year holiday period.When Maitland Murray and daughter Jacqueline bought a ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on December 22, 2008
  • REIV Caught Cheating - Again

    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 ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on December 9, 2008
  • AICVIC "Strongly Recommends" Against Corruption?

    OPINIONby Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerQualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd   If the head of a police force or a government department were to attack entrenched corruption by telling its members that it ''strongly recommends'' that they refrain from involvement, one would question ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on December 8, 2008
  • The Finance Approval Minefield

    by Shannyn HunterConveyancer shannyn@lawyersconveyancing.com.au Lawyers Conveyancing  Anyone who has dealt with the banks for a home loan will tell you about their battle scars with pride. Simply securing finance approval can be a frustrating and baffling task. An anxious purchaser can be kept waiting for finance approval because the ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on October 2, 2008
  • 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
  • Latest "Clayton's" Finanace Approval Letter

    by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.BSolicitorConsumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au   This latest ''Clayton's'' finance approval letter is hot off my fax machine. Last year I reported on an upbeat broker’s keenness to show me that my clients’ finance had been “approved” - by way of a copy of a letter from the lending bank confirming that ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on June 16, 2008
  • Victoria's Section 32 Statements - Tread Warily In This Conveyancing Minefield

              by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.BSolicitorConsumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Victoria’s solicitors have been informed by their Legal Practitioners’ Liability Committee (“LPLC”) that their mishandling of property conveyancing is one of the most costly sources of clients’ negligence claims. Whether ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on May 20, 2008
  • How I Became An Estate Agent's Hero

    by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.BSolicitorConsumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au   Brisbane conveyancing solicitor Chris Bridge became concerned when he noticed that his buyer client’s contract included a special condition authorising the pre-settlement release of the selling agent’s commission.  Such a “pre-draw” practice may be ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on April 23, 2008
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