A recent shopping centre rent recovery action offers a useful demonstration of how loss of future rent is calculated whe...
Rueful tenant gazumped in Queen St retail review: court pulls shades on second lease attempt
The collapse of negotiations over a prime Queen Street retail location – aired this month in the Supreme Court ...
BCCMA & PAMDA net drowning agents in contract compliance rules
Undaunted by calls for a moratorium on ill-considered regulation, the government has pulled even tighter on the net in w...
Lease letter of intent lesson: Can landlord pull plug after pocketing payment?
Bathroom goods supplier, Highgrove – “the fastest-growing bathroomware company on the East Coast of Australia” – w...
PAMDA non-compliance: buyer recovers $250,000: two lots = one residential “parcel”
Before last week I felt just a little – in relation to the already considerable volume of law on PAMDA’s applicati...
The extent of BCCMA termination traps: must the CMS be “attached”?
Justice minister Paul Lucas has so far ignored pleas from Queensland real estate agents to halt the start of BCCMA chang...
Developer dumped in white-water: agents caught in splash over absent Sunshine Beach views
It was fifth and sixth time unlucky for Sunshine Beach developer Mark Bain Constructions when the company and two local ...
Agent gets paid but sellers given opportunity to vent on “unfair” REIQ exclusive agency terms
Self-represented sellers who were ordered to pay Ray White Surfers Paradise a second commission on the sale of their hom...
Agents in the gun again: new disclosure rules explained
Amendments to the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (BCCMA) that came into force on Thursday have again t...