After next month, PAMDA’s new chapter 11 will only allow termination on one ground – if a buyer proves they ...
$8.5 million walk-in: Q1 penthouse sale holds against PAMDA termination threat
In April 2007 a buyer walked into a real estate office to make an offer on a Q1 Penthouse at Surfers Paradise for $8.5mi...
Contract change not initialled. When can buyer walk away?
Every agent learns that amendments made to a contract after signing by a party must – to ensure contract validity –...
Agent’s duty to client: $25k for not keeping seller informed
The extent of an agent’s duty to his client seller in relation to the sale of a home in Tarragindi Brisbane was the subj...
“Unfair” terms: new ADL & REIQ contracts. What kind of animal? Will changes bite agents?
The new house & land editions from both providers have new clauses for building & pest inspection; default; and ...
Aaargh! New hurdles for agents, developers & landlords to TACL
The real estate industry will very soon have a new set of hurdles to jump . The Australian Consumer Law (TACL) which voi...
The ferocious PAMDA monster lives on…
The complex document ordering, contract presentation and re-presentation requirements in PAMDA will be axed from October...
Australia Post dispatched – handing over premises to subsidiary a breach of warehouse lease
The Court of Appeal has overturned an earlier ruling that a change in occupier was not a change in possession requiring ...
PAMDA is still a monster – only some of its heads have been cut
The Queensland government has taken the sword to the PAMDA monster by slowly cutting off one of its heads but leaving it...