In a scenario familiar to agents and law firms, a Cairns court ruled last month how hard buyers must push their bank loa...
Developer fails to hold pre-GFC Hamilton Island condo sale: “must sign” contract clause overruled
A $2.7 million luxury Hamilton Island apartment sale signed up in September 2007 before the onset of the GFC, was lost b...
Sustainability declaration first of forms to get flick
Hooray for last week’s death to the requirement that sellers and agents provide sustainability declarations to pot...
Court undoes $25 mil settled sale: Westpac and “greedy” seller bedazzled in audacious con?
More exotic than a Nigerian email scam – but equally extravagant – this story recounted over five days in Br...
Developer strikes out on rent-free claim after contract compliance catastrophe
A Mooloolaba developer who exploited PAMDA rules to crash a $2.3 million home buy as settlement date came due, has now b...
Oracle Broadbeach “what’s in a name” buyers lose appeal against must-settle ruling
The court of appeal this morning dismissed the appeals of fourteen off-the-plan buyers of luxury apartments in Broadbeac...
State puts on the screw: pre-July agreements disqualified from home-buyer duty concessions
The reinstatement from 1 July of the principal place of residence stamp duty concession – abolished in last year&#...
Embarrassing but not fraudulent: Appeal court baulks at binding buyers to fixed-up contract
An elderly couple, penalised because they had failed to “baldly accuse” a seller’s lawyers that easeme...
“Illegal” penalty loan rates go to appeal: ramifications for finance & property immense
The Casino (NSW) borrower who won a reprieve against mezzanine interest rates of 7.5% per month, has failed to stop the ...