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Home Truths About Building Inspections

The first rule of real estate remains - buyer beware - but so too should the building inspector.

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Maitland Horler Ethical Agents – An Oxymoron?

What if an estate agency trading as 'ethical agents' behaves in a manner that is so unethical as to render its name an oxymoron?

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Worksafe Guidelines Ill-Informed

The REIV sounds like a politician reassuring voters that their soldier sons and daughters will be given every assistance as they enter a dangerous war zone, without addressing the real issue of whether there is a need to expose them to risk in the first place.

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Estate Agents Who Play ‘Lawyer’

Estate agents often want to control the sale transaction, even to the point of telling the lawyer how to prepare sale documents. But what happens if the estate agent is asked to take responsibility?

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Submission To The Estate Agents Council Regarding The Conduct Of Private Auctions

As mentioned in our previous posting, the dummy bid never went away, it simply mutated into more insidious forms.

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The “Private Auction” – A Haven For The Dreaded Dummy Bid

"The dreaded 'dummy bid' never really went away; it simply mutated into a more insidious form through the concept of the 'Private Auction.

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A Tale Of Two Cities

In the Melbourne of the REIV, real estate is booming. For the past 11 weeks, auction clearances rates have topped 70 percent every weekend. This is a lie.

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Estate Agents Are NOT Valuers!

The following is an email from estate agent Chris Warren to Tim O'Dwyer. At last there is an estate agent who is prepared to tell consumers that estate agents are NOT valuers.

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Estate Agents & The “C” Word

Estate agents don’t like using the word CONTRACT, preferring instead to use the term OFFER when dealing with purchasers.

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Take Care When Crashing Contracts

Recent court decisions highlight the need for conveyancing solicitors to take great care if a client wants to cancel a contract on the ground of the other party’s “repudiation” or “anticipatory breach”.

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