The desperate search for greater tax revenue has pinpointed the deficit blowtorch on property gains, negative gearing an...
Court rules on adventurers’ claim to deserted Pacific atolls
There’s nothing to be seen except the carcasses of ships wrecked on the coral and sand bars exposed at low tide. Elizabe...
Masters’ lease blunders emblematic of rollout distaster
The debacle that followed Woolworths’ commitment to a 10,500 m2 Masters super-site in Bendigo is emblematic of the food peoples’ ill-fated strategy to win a home-improvement
It doesn’t add up: $7 mil Soul penthouse gets seller $22.7 mil
A buyer who snapped up an off-the-plan buy of the prestigious four-floor penthouse atop Soul in April 2006 claimed he on...
Grantor defaults $250k option fee: “Exercise invalid by delivery of one contract not two”
The $250k call option fee paid by a would-be buyer in March 2015 to secure the $2.5 million residence was intended to fo...
Landlord trumped on make-good claim by paucity of invoice details
When a factory tenant vacated after more than three years in occupation, it cleaned the premises but left in place a par...
Agent’s fund in slot for Gold Coast deposit-bond “scheme”
A travel agent who defaulted on two off-the-plan Surfers Paradise apartment buys signed up in February 2008 has claimed ...
Can seller terminate once post-dated deposit cheque is honoured?
A travel agent who defaulted on two off-the-plan Surfers Paradise apartment buys signed up in February 2008 has claimed ...
Separate contracts for house on 2 lots, buyer sues to settle on just one
In January 2012 Brian Maloney identified a home in bayside Brighton as an ideal location for the construction of a displ...