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OPINIONby Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerQualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd
The new Contract of Sale of Real Estate prescribed by the Estate Agents (Contracts) Regulations 2008 was supposed to end the dodgy practice of estate agents withholding terms and conditions from purchasers, ...
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OPINIONby Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerQualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd
The document known in the real estate industry as “the standard REIV Contract Note” has been banned. As from 28 September, 2008 the only document available to estate agents will be the standard form of ...
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Rik Rushton - Director - Ranges First National Real Estate of Belgrave.
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OPINIONby Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerQualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd
Hot on the heels of the contract switchers at Barry Plant Real Estate Croydon comes Ranges First National Real Estate of Belgrave. But things get much worse when the switching of contracts is compounded with ...
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OPINIONby Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerQualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd
According to Chris Vedelago, writing for The Age newspaper, ''Falling sales levels and the prospect of a weaker market has led more than one in 10 real estate companies to consider selling up...The number of ...
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OPINIONby Neil Jenman Consumer Advocate
A former Ray White franchise agent, John Michael Talia, has been convicted of obtaining property by deception.
Last Thursday (August 14, 2008), after the guilty verdict was read out in the Victorian County Court, John Talia was remanded in custody. Locked up.
Well done prosecutors. It's about time that ...
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Lauren, for more information about the tricks used by estate agents and the need for purchasers to be protected, see Criminal Deception in Real Estate on the Lawyers Conveyancing website.
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This is where the estate agent often ends up working for the purchaser, against his own client. By giving the estate agent a signed contract you also give him a ''conditioning tool''.
The estate agent will use your signed contract to convince the vendor that the market is talking, and that the price you have offered in hard copy is about ...
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Hi All,
I have been in the game of looking for a house now for about 2 months.
The latest agent (not the listing agent) for a house that we really like is being really pushy for a higher price and for us to sign a contract.
We have offered less than the advertised price and have worked our way towards the asking price, however, ever since ...
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Estate agents are NOT professionals. Any business which entails deception as a fundamental part of its process cannot be called ''professional'', and I can assure you that no estate agency in Australia can turn a profit without deception as an essential ingredient in its product mix.
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