Take the law… Carter Capner Law's Queensland law digest

The December update of the REIQ residential land contract includes a half-hearted attempt to avert opportunistic terminations and forfeited deposits (more…)

A Gold Coast couple promised “exclusive penthouse views from Surfers Paradise to Burleigh” were devastated when their $1.6 million “Bella Vue” apartment (more…)

The insertion by an agent of drainage easement particulars into a residential contract reference schedule – after the buyers had signed (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…)

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

Self-represented sellers who were ordered to pay Ray White Surfers Paradise a second commission on the sale of their home under an “unfairly drafted” exclusive agency (more…)

In a sign that Queensland is enjoying a real estate resurgence at least somewhere, it was a seller who this time sought to escape a $4.3 million contract through PAMDA non-compliance – based on sloppy construction (more…)

“Ugly” PAMDA – the unforgettable monster-like version partly decapitated last October - is still winding its way through Queensland’s courts. (more…)

As predicted, a disputed flood damage contract termination where a buyer alleges the property is uninhabitable, is already before the Supreme Court.

None other than Maris Dunworth, the Tennyson Reach buyer (more…)

No step taken in his client’s contract claim for more than four and a half years proved fatal in an application made by a Toowoomba solicitor for leave to proceed under UCPR rule 389. (more…)