A Real Estate “Rant And Rave” From NSW

The email was from a very frustrated consumer who wanted to share with me and The Australian Real Estate Blog’s readers his recent real estate and conveyancing experience while trying to buy a property in New South Wales. His disturbing story has been edited a little, but the essential details of a very costly, and probably not unfamiliar, exercise remain as a lesson to all.

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But Wait, There’s More Burlesque In Queensland!

Queensland’s Auctioneering Practice Code of Conduct is flawed - not only because of its failure to require identification of phone-bidders absent from auction sites and proof of the authority given their representatives, but also because auctioneers have to keep registered bidders’ identities secret.

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