Investor hit nearly $400k for failure to settle on mis-timed unit buys

A Brisbane investor has been ordered to pay substantial losses to a developer as a result of his fai

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Council liable for easement subsidence: must fix canal home, pay $160k “nuisance” damages

The wide frontage and extensive outdoor areas of the Palm Beach canal front home created a strong at

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Agency gets buyer on paper, trumped on commission claim by competitor’s closing “skill set”

A Gold Coast real estate agency who recruited the buyer for a Benowa mansion has been denied commiss

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Court declares ‘mistake’, reverses buyer’s $330k property contract windfall

Standard real estate contract terms provide for the adjustment of rental prepayments as between buye

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Bad accountant? Tax advice wrong, offers own property for client investment

A court has ruled that an accountant who encouraged his client to buy his own vacant Broadbeach

Court rules “purchase price exclusive of GST” does not equal buyer must pay GST in addition

A court has ruled that a land contract provision specifying “the Purchase Price is exclusive of GS

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Appeal court upholds venture capitalist’s misleading & deceptive claim against handpicked IPO chairman

A finance industry chief has been held to have engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct when negot

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Loan book buyer statute barred in $4 mil mortgage debt recovery

Borrowers under a private $320k loan have successfully defended their mortgagee’s $4 mil recovery

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Whitsunday developer’s $3 mil loan default compounds to $11 mil at judgment

One would have thought that all the stories of GFC related property calamities in Queensland had bee

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