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In May 2008 Kym Boylan sold her $5.5 million Nerang riverfront residence via Put & Call Option and last month finally recovered the $2.1 million (more…)

Agents and solicitors were last week dealt a harsh lesson from the Supreme Court about the operation of residential finance and building & pest conditions and how not to (more…)

In what may be the final chapter of the “Tales of Tennyson Reach”, disappointed luxury apartment buyer and erstwhile villain (more…)

A substantial majority of real estate agent survey respondents believe deregulation will put downward pressure on residential commissions and a greater number oppose (more…)

The push for regime change at the root of Queensland’s real estate regulation debacle has gained momentum with PAMDA’s referral to a parliamentary committee and the reconsideration (more…)

Yong Internationals has failed to successfully appeal its loss of a $226,000 commission over the $9 million contract for a 35 ha vacant land development site (more…)

Agents can be forgiven for holding suspicions about the proposed deregulation of commissions and “reconsideration” of new industry regulation that was slated (more…)

Undaunted by calls for a moratorium on ill-considered regulation, the government has pulled even tighter on the net in which it has the Queensland real estate industry entangled – (more…)

Before last week I felt just a little – in relation to the already considerable volume of law on PAMDA’s application to options (more…)

Justice minister Paul Lucas has so far ignored pleas from Queensland real estate agents to halt the start of BCCMA changes that have brought industry-wide confusion from complex (more…)