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Book Exposes Real World Of Real Estate
19 October 09 07:01 AM | Peter Mericka | 6 Comments   
by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd I was watching "First Tuesday Book Club" on ABC TV a few months ago, and I saw the host, Jennifer Byrne hold up a copy of Brendan Read More...
Video Recording of Real Estate Auctions
16 February 09 07:13 AM | Peter Mericka | 23 Comments   
OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd It's time for consumers to get serious about the tricks and criminal conduct associated with real estate auctions. As Read More...
Auctions - Going, Going, Gone?
10 December 08 11:43 AM | Peter Mericka | 4 Comments   
OPINION by David Morrell Real Estate Buyers' Advocate Director Morrell & Koren Right now the real estate auction system is on the ropes because the market has tanked; but its problems run deeper than that. The elephant in the room is whether the auction Read More...
REIV Caught Cheating - Again
09 December 08 09:56 AM | Peter Mericka | 20 Comments   
Opinion by Neil Jenman Consumer Advocate For many years, the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) has misled and deceived real estate consumers. Whether it be trying to justify (or deny) dodgy practices such as false price quoting or whether it's Read More...
Transparency? More Like A Two-Way Mirror!
23 July 08 07:41 PM | Peter Mericka | 2 Comments   
OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd Estate agents have a marvelous talent for redefining words so that their everyday meaning is distorted to the point that Read More...
Walk Away To Bid Another Day
19 February 08 09:08 AM | Peter Mericka | 1 Comments   
by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Walk away to bid another day - but not before the auction is over. Picture yourself as a duly registered, cashed-up bidder at the auction of a seaside mansion. Bidding Read More...
Another Nail in the Auction Coffin
14 February 08 07:37 PM | Peter Mericka | 1 Comments   
by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd The Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) has been forced to come clean, and to admit to consumers that "...no binding contract Read More...
Contracts - Real Estate Booby Traps!
10 May 07 11:35 AM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   
by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer and Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Lawyers Real Estate Most real estate consumers are aware that real estate contracts are biased heavily in favour of the vendor, and contain a minefield of terms Read More...
Auction Bullying
10 May 07 11:33 AM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   
by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer and Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Lawyers Real Estate “Auction turns to scuffle” is the title of an article by David Nankervis of the Adelaide Sunday Mail (p.36). The article describes how police Read More...
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In NSW Dummy Bidders Now Face $55K Fine
03 May 07 04:45 PM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   
From domain.com.au "Tougher dummy bidding laws were introduced to the real-estate industry last weekend on one of the year's busiest auction days last Saturday." But contrary to what Fair Trading Minister Diane Beamer suggests in the article, we do not Read More...
Need To Dispose Of A “Dud” Property? Auction It!
03 May 07 04:15 PM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   
This warning is prompted by the number of “dud” properties being screened off through our pre-contract advice service . One was a property with “subdivision issues”, and another was weighed down by a covenant that required the owner of the property to Read More...
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Hey Geoff, Real Estate Deceptions Are Never Funny
03 May 07 11:59 AM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   
by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer and Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Lawyers Real Estate It would appear that the President of the REIV thinks it's funny when consumers are tricked by the scam known as the real estate auction. Read More...
The Latest In Real Estate Deception
01 May 07 04:49 PM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   
It appears that estate agents now have a new weapon in their auction deception armory. Street theatre! Gary Lapersonne, writing as "Secret Agent" in the Domain section of The Sunday Age (Domain p.2 Sunday Age 7 May, 2006) reports on claims that a Melbourne Read More...
The "Private Auction" – A Haven For The Dummy Bid
01 May 07 03:45 PM | Peter Mericka | 1 Comments   
OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd The dreaded "dummy bid" never really went away; it simply mutated into a more insidious form through the concept of the Read More...
The Dummy Bid Lives!
01 May 07 03:43 PM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   
by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer and Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Lawyers Real Estate As mentioned in our previous posting, the dummy bid never went away, it simply mutated into more insidious forms. According to "Secret Agent" Read More...
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