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Questions Raised Over Dummy Bidding Allegation

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Contract Switching and Lies at Ranges First National Real Estate

Hot on the heels of the contract switchers at Barry Plant Real Estate Croydon comes Ranges First National Real Estate of Belgrave. But things get much worse when the switching of contracts is compounded with lies and threats as part of an attempted cover-up.

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Estate Agent Theft Threat Increasing

According to Chris Vedelago, writing for The Age newspaper, 'Falling sales levels and the prospect of a weaker market has led more than one in 10 real estate companies to consider selling up...The number of companies looking to move out of real estate has quadrupled...

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The Conviction of John Talia

John Talia's crime was a simple and common real estate crime. He bought the home of an elderly man for less than its real value.

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Geoff Thompson – Contract Switching At Barry Plant RE

The Barry Plant Real Estate tag line is 'The red carparet experience'. I felt that the red carpet had been pulled out from under me and my client when Geoff Thompson's sales representative Pauline Ferguson switched contracts without my knowledge and without any explanation...

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Enzo Raimondo Must Resign

Victoria's real estate industry is embroiled in another scandal. This time, the body at the centre of the scandal is the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (the REIV) and its CEO, Mr Enzo Raimondo.

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David Sowersby – Serial Switcher of Contracts

Some years ago I pounced on Sowersby for "switching" contracts, and thought he had changed his ways. Unfortunately, it seems that when you've been in the industry as long as Sowersby has, old habits die hard.

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Transparency? More Like A Two-Way Mirror!

Estate agents have a marvelous talent for redefining words so that their everyday meaning is distorted to the point that they become oxymorons.

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Barry Plant Real Estate – “Gazumping” Clause

It would appear that Barry Plant Real Estate has adopted the tactic of having a “gazumping” clause inserted into real estate contracts.

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Title Insurance

During a conveyancing transaction a Solicitor or Conveyancer will work diligently to identify risks that may affect property. They will often find matters that could affect use of the property in the future; however, there are also risks that the most diligent process cannot discover which may be insured under a Title Insurance policy.

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