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Free Valuation? Just A Foot In The Door!

Estate agents are always offering free valuations, even though they are not qualified to do so. Why are estate agents so keen to offer this free "service"?

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Why I Like This Estate Agent

Chris Warren is the first estate agent I have come across who is prepared to honestly inform consumers that real estate agents are not valuers.

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How Cool Is “Cooling Off” In Real Estate Contracts?

Why no seller’s cooling-off right? The official thinking may be that buyers are more vulnerable to seller or agent pressure.

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Cunning Commission Clause

The solicitor had one nagging doubt. Could the agency, which sold the property, still claim commission?

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Estate Agents – Unqualified Hucksters?

There is an urgent need for uniform, Australia-wide, real estate regulation. By all means let agents make sales, but the nation's laws must prohibit unqualified hucksters from any part in the preparation, completion, signing or exchange of real estate contracts.

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Self-Defence For Estate Agents

Estate agents are now being advised to take a course in 'Dealing With Client Aggression and Violence'

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Guide To Relieve Real Estate “Stress & Heartache”

The Queensland government has produced 'Real Estate Realities', a 74-page guide aimed at saving real estate consumers money, stress and heartache.

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The Battle Of Multiple Offers

Not many agents appear to know it, but the common law across Australia has long provided that they owe fiduciary duties to their seller clients, that the relationship between agents and their clients is one of 'utmost good faith' and that full disclosure must be made to sellers of any information obtained by agents.

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Shark Attacks Shark

The story of how a real estate agent ripped off wealthy Gold Coast home owners reads like an American TV soap opera.

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Estate Agent’s “Gazumping” Clause

"The 'Ian Reid Strategy', as we will call it, involves the insertion of a special condition into the sale contract. The special condition allows a latecomer to the sale to submit a 'bid' to the vendor.

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