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  • multiple offer disappointment

    Is it legitimate for a real estate agent to agree to draw up a contract for the amount I have offered and agree to drop it around after work and then TAKE ANOTHER GROUP through the house in question, pushing us into a multiple offer situation? I raised my offer by $35000 but still missed out to the other group who had no need for finance.  I feel ...
    Posted to Consumer Questions (Forum) by sooz on February 15, 2010

  • What can we do?

    my girlfreind got a new job a few towns over and we had to move, we found out about a 3 bedroom house after talking to the estate agent on the phone (the only agent that services the area), we drove over 100km and saw the house on 24th of jan, he said it was avail on friday the 29th, we were excited to get a house that quick, and it being the only ...
    Posted to Consumer Questions (Forum) by stretched_steel on February 15, 2010

  • The Ultimate Real Estate Sales Office

    OPINIONby Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerQualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd   The ultimate real estate office model has arrived. It's the ILP - a lean, clean sales machine that combines the roles of lawyer, conveyancer and real estate agent to provide an optimum real estate service on ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on August 29, 2009

  • REIV Confusion On Estate Agent Role As "Go-Between"

    OPINIONby Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerQualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd   Is it any wonder that the REIV (Real Estate Institute of Victoria) misleads, misguides and misinforms its members when its own CEO Enzo Raimondo fails to understand the role of the real estate agent in a ...
    Posted to Australian Real Estate Blog (Weblog) by Peter Mericka on July 7, 2009

  • Re: Agent getting buyer to send on contracts

    Hi Matilda, There is nothing wrong with this, as real estate agents should NEVER EVER handle contracts, other than to simply supply them to the purchaser.  By sending the contract to the purchaser the real estate agent is giving the purchaser every opportunity to read the contracts, to obtain legal advice on them, and to do things without ...
    Posted to Consumer Questions (Forum) by Peter Mericka on June 7, 2009

  • Agent getting buyer to send on contracts

    There is a Real Estate Agency in Qld who sends by post contracts to be signed by the purchaser. After  the purchaser signes the contracts the purchaser then has to send it onto the buyer in an envelope.   The agent still gets the full commission but the buyer is effectively doing the work for the agent.   The onus is on the ...
    Posted to Consumer Questions (Forum) by matildajones2009 on June 6, 2009
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