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OPINIONby Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerQualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd
I have been very critical of the underhanded approach taken by the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) in designing the new standard form Contract of Sale of Real Estate so as to create an even more ...
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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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Geoff Thompson is the Director of Barry Plant Real Estate in Croydon Victoria, and the Barry Plant Real Estate tag line is ''The red carpet experience''. I felt that the red carpet had been pulled out from under me and my client when Geoff Thompson's sales representative Pauline Ferguson switched contracts without my knowledge and without any ...
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OPINIONby Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerQualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd
Geoff Thompson is the Director of Barry Plant Real Estate in Croydon Victoria, and the Barry Plant Real Estate tag line is ''The red carpet experience''. I felt that the red carpet had been pulled out from ...
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Be very careful! I am in the process of writing a guide to the REIV Exclusive Sale Authority, exposing the nastiness of this document. You will find that the property does not really have to be sold for the estate agent to become entitled to put his hand out for a commission. Click on the following link to see what has been ...
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Opinion by Neil Jenman Consumer Advocate
Victoria's real estate industry is embroiled in another scandal. This time, the body at the centre of the scandal is the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (the REIV) and its CEO, Mr Enzo Raimondo.
The REIV is an industry association whose members comprise around 80 per cent of the state's 6,000 estate ...
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OPINIONby Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerQualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd
David Sowersby is the Director of Walshe & Whitelock Real Estate, Brunswick and an Associate of the Real Estate Institute of Australia. David Sowersby is also a ''contract switcher''. Some years ago I ...
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by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.BReal Estate LawyerQualified Practising Conveyancer VictoriaDirector Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd
Enzo Raimondo, CEO of the Real Estate Institute of Victoria, recently accused me of making comments that were ''deliberately mischievous and untrue''. But when called upon to nominate any such statements or to provide ...
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There are few things more dangerous for real estate consumers than estate agents who fancy themselves as ''wheelers and dealers''. They are usually the ones who cause the wheels to fall off real estate transactions, usually because one party or the other feels that they have been let down. Enzo Raimondo not only acknowledges that estate agent's ...
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