OPINIONby Tim O’Dwyer M.A., LL.BSolicitorConsumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au What to do if you find that the warehouse and office complex you bought 12 months ago is suffering substantial structural distress? No doubt you would immediately engage engineers to investigate. When this disturbing scenario really did happen the engineers duly reported that water-front buildings, as this was, were commonly susceptible to subsidence. Such buildings require special care in the design and placement of their foundations. It was...
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Peter Mericka, director of Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd (‘LRE’), published on: 17 October 2009 – comments on this website about Mr. Guthrie concerning a letter signed and sent by Mr Guthrie on behalf of NSW Fair Trading stating its position on the applicability of the Property, Stoc k and Business Agents Act 2002 to LRE (‘the Fair Trading Letter’). 5 July 2010 – an article on this website entitled ‘Fairness From NSW Office of...
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OPINIONby Tim O’Dwyer M.A., LL.BSolicitorConsumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au After many years as a conveyancing solicitor I identified three immutable rules of real estate. The first is that salespersons move fast. The second is that solicitors move slowly. And the third, the reason for the first two, is that buyers and sellers alike can change their minds. When real estate consumers – particularly buyers – change their minds part-way through contracts, their conveyancing solicitors are expected...
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