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Real Estate Regulators - No Fault With Real Estate Agent's Caveat Clause
28 July 11 05:21 PM | Peter Mericka | 7 Comments   
OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Not only had the buyers purported to “charge” the property with the seller’s agent’s commission liability while consequently consenting to the agent’s lodgement Read More...
Conveyancing Consumer Alert - Beware of the Sneaky Stamp!
14 July 11 09:04 AM | Peter Mericka | 13 Comments   
OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd Real estate agents have no automatic right to lodge a caveat over a client's property to secure the payment of commission. Read More...
Commission Rage - Real Estate Rabies
25 June 11 11:14 AM | Peter Mericka | 1 Comments   
OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Consumer Advocate Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd Rabies is a terrible affliction. It can can quickly turn a friendly family pet into a belligerent Read More...
Real Estate Agent Questions Industry Value
26 February 11 04:39 AM | Peter Mericka | 3 Comments   
by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd "As it stands, Real Estate is the only consumer industry that manages to command percentage fees on selling prices. In an era Read More...
Novice Real Estate Sellers Beware!
23 November 10 05:21 AM | Peter Mericka | 5 Comments   
OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Sellers learn a costly lesson after making a private sale where the buyer was originally introduced by their estate agent. “All buyers are liars!” An exaggeration, Read More...
REIV Hypocrisy - Cut Stamp Duty While Commissions Increase
12 April 10 07:04 AM | Peter Mericka | 6 Comments   
OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd The hypocrisy is astounding. Enzo Raimondo told the Herald Sun newspaper "If stamp duty rates are not reduced then anyone Read More...
Estate Agents - Commission Mentality Explained
26 August 09 12:43 PM | Peter Mericka | 35 Comments   
OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd It would seem that real estate agents are the same, all around the world. The following anecdote appears on a real estate Read More...
How To Pay Two Commissions In One Sale
16 September 08 02:33 PM | Peter Mericka | 5 Comments   
OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au There is an old joke about Lady Cul de Sac. She did not want the title, but there was no way out. Julie James (not her real name) did not want to complete the Read More...
One Sale - Two Commissions
27 June 08 07:00 AM | Peter Mericka | 4 Comments   
by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Carly Gillard was staggered, after settling the sale of her Northern New South Wales property, to find herself facing commission claims from two real estate agencies. Read More...
How I Became An Estate Agent's Hero
23 April 08 03:34 PM | Peter Mericka | 4 Comments   
by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Brisbane conveyancing solicitor Chris Bridge became concerned when he noticed that his buyer client’s contract included a special condition authorising the pre-settlement 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...
What If The Estate Agent Has Already Spent The Commission?
31 January 08 09:44 AM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   
by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd As any lawyer or conveyancer will confirm, a contract may have to be cancelled for a variety of reasons, even after it has become Read More...
Who Will Pay The (Legal) Ferrymen?
29 November 07 06:28 AM | Peter Mericka | 2 Comments   
by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Below are comments I have received independently from a couple of legal colleagues. They are clearly quite concerned about the ‘costs consequences’ of conveyancing solicitors’, Read More...
Pricing Propaganda From REIV
29 September 07 08:55 AM | Peter Mericka | 2 Comments   
by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd In his weekly propaganda piece in The Age newspaper (The Age "Domain" 29 September, 2007 p.3) CEO of the Real Estate Institute Read More...
Richard Wood Solicitors - Who Needs To Know?
20 September 07 08:24 AM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   
by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Conveyancer Consumer Advocate peter@lawyersconveyancing.com.au I have discussed the way in which payments to estate agents can become illegal secret commissions if they are not disclosed, and how the disclosure Read More...
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