A $2.7 million luxury Hamilton Island apartment sale signed up in September 2007 before the onset of the GFC, was lost b...
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...
“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 ...
Solicitor handoff at issue in GFC induced off-the-plan condo crash
A buyer has escaped his November 2008 Royal Pines luxury villa contract amid confusion among their solicitors over which...
Oracle price collapse: court shields valuation from market eyes
Following closely on the December judgment compelling luxury Broadbeach apartment buyers to settle on the 11 high-rise c...
“Exorbitant” default interest not a penalty but capitalisation of arrears “unconscionable”.
In a decision that will be intently studied by the finance industry and borrowers alike, the supreme court today refused...
Penny pinching on legals a poor choice for spendthrift sellers
Terence Street was rapidly reaching the limit of his $450k bank line of credit when he floated his Hope Island home as a...
A hotel by any other name: buyers fall short in resort to shut down million dollar sales
It should be of little surprise few of the 18 investors, whose bids this month to escape their 2006 off-the-plan apartme...
Bank halts home sale: Buyer sues for extra $65k paid for house of “like-quality”
When Ai and Kris O’Neill signed a contract to buy a $360,000 residence at Ormeau, little did they know that the purchase...