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PAMDA
- Court Rules on PAMDA Warning Statements - When can a buyer terminate?
- Incomplete PAMDA forms ... what are the risks?
- Shrinking PAMDA forms
- PAMDA Alert - New forms mandatory from 1 July 2009
- We are not alone - Judge "confused" by PAMDA
- PAMDA Alert: Notice requirements when seller responds to buyer's counter-offer
- "Second PAMDA notice" compliance just as important to avoid contract crashes
- PAMDA - Minister feels the heat
- PAMDA - Minister stalls on reform promise
- PAMDA Alert: New Warning Statement required for second offer from buyer
- PAMDA - warning statement disputes likely to continue thru 2010
- PAMDA just one of many hazards in 2010
- PAMDA - the monthly cost of reform delay
- PAMDA is still a monster - only one of its heads has been cut
- The ferocious PAMDA monster lives on...
Residential contracts
- Auctions - When the Hammer Falls
- Smoke Alarm Disclosure - You're damned if you don't... so do it!
- How do you sell a haunted house?
- Waiving cooling off periods
- Late payment of balance deposits - how much of a problem?
- When should a buyer insure?
- QLS conveyancing protocol updated
- When can a buyer terminate due to building & pest issues?
- First in best dressed on finance approval notifications
- No building approval Now what!!!
- What was behind the race to help unit developers to prevent off-the-plan cancellations
- Special condition designed for "emotional defects"
- Sustainability Declarations - Yet another paperwork hurdle for agents
- Sustainability red tape adds costs to home sales
- "Glimpses" + "view" ? "ocean views" - Lessons from beachside unit contract termination
- Residential Put & Call Options - does PAMDA apply?
- When does size matter? - 15% smaller balcony not enough for river-front apartment sale termination
- Aaargh! New hurdles for agents & developers to TACL
Commercial retail and industrial leases & leasing
- De facto options in retail leases
- Market reviews at option - When should rent be determined?
- Disclosure statement errors in retail leases What are the consequences?
- Rent reviews for retail shop leases
- Landlords now able to recoup Land Tax from tenants - Real Estate offices may be exempt
- Development Approval required for a lease? When?
- How good is your lease? - delinquent tenants
- How good is your lease? "Ratchet" rent review provisos valid - for now
- How good is your lease? - Court says change in occupier is not always a change in possession
- How good is your lease? - Court rules change in tenant's operations not a change of use - landlord's Notice to Remedy
- Land Tax & Valuations: reprieve for investors & landlords
- How reasonable must a reasonable landlord be? - Court reverses refusal of assignment consent
- Australia Post dispatched - handing over premises to subsidiary a breach of warehouse lease
Non-residential contracts
- Rural land and water licences
- The ins and outs of put & call options
- Asbestos in commercial buildings - Contract implications?
- Contract price rebates - Agent & buyer exposure to liability
- Informal contracts to buy land - Are they binding?
- Court crashes 12 high-rise contracts: failure to observe statutory disclosure requirements
Real Estate Agency Practice
- When must an Agent invest a deposit?
- Do Agent's have to prepare Form 32a Lawyers' Certificates?
- Agents' right to prepare contracts clarified
- Agents preparing contracts - New laws from today
- Agent acknowledgements - Are you obliged to sign?
- Obtaining consent for fax and email communications Electronic Transactions Act
- Sales to non-citizens - What approvals are needed?
- Seller liable for agent mis-statements in termination of off-the-plan contract
- When is GST payable on forfeited deposits?
Stamp Duty & FHOS
Residential property management
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