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  • The Pricing Dilemma - An Agent's View

    OPINIONby Chris WarrenLicenced Real Estate Agent Chris@RemaxColonial.com.au   Chris Warren is a Licensed Real Estate agent with over 20 years' experience, providing real estate services to consumers on Brisbane's inner southside. He was recently quoted in a submission to the Estate Agents Council of Victoria concerning real estate agent ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on December 8, 2009
  • REIV Pricing Ploy Relies On Lies

    by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerQualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd   We now have the REIV inventing, and forcing its own legislation on real estate consumers. When will journalists, regulators, lawyers and consumers start thinking for themselves instead of simply watching Enzo ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on October 25, 2009
  • Did The Minister's Dog Eat Hubby's Homework?

    OPINIONby Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.BSolicitorConsumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au   Former corruption investigator Tony Fitzgerald QC and former premier Wayne Goss recently charged that Queensland’s Beattie and Bligh governments had let the state slide back into its “dark past”. “Ethics are always tested by incumbency”, explained ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on August 5, 2009
  • Enzo Raimondo - Auction System's Fair, You Can Quote Me

    OPINIONby Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerQualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd   Following on from my previous posting in which I acknowledged Enzo Raimondo, CEO of the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) as a master of the partial-truth, comes a newspaper article in which Raimondo ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on July 31, 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
  • Estate Agents As "Legal Advisers"?

    OPINIONby Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.BSolicitorConsumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au   Harcourts real estate agent, Lester Drew, in a recent letter to the editor of Queensland's Courier Mail criticised an earlier column in that newspaper about selling real estate. Drew pointed out in his letter (as published) that columnist Scott Pape ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on January 28, 2009
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Max Brown Real Estate: Dodgy Advice & Conflicting Interests

    by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd   It is fitting that the logo of Max Brown Real Estate should depict the estate agent as a shadowy faceless figure, as it suggests the level of responsibility the estate agent assumes when ''advising'' vulnerable ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on January 8, 2008
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