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Luxury River-Front Property For Sale - Flooded Only Once (Or Twice)
01 February 12 06:54 AM | Peter Mericka | 3 Comments   

OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au What do you do when a property you have contracted to sell is damaged (by flood, fire or whatever) before settlement? What do you do if you are the buyer of that Read More...

Filed under: brisbane, Conveyancer, Conveyancing, Estate agent, flood, flood insurance, flooded, flooding, property, queensland, real estate, river

Three Tales of Deceitful Real Estate Agents Successfully Sued
13 January 12 06:56 AM | Peter Mericka | 11 Comments   

OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Real estate agents are rarely prosecuted or sued. Sure, we regularly hear about misbehaviour in the real estate industry and occasionally a real estate agent appears Read More...

Filed under: Agent, Conveyancer, Conveyancing, Deception, Lawyers Conveyancing, real estate

Let Me Invite You To Google+
23 July 11 10:54 AM | 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 Readers may or may not be aware that Google has announced a new social networking facility that will compete wit Facebook, Read More...

Filed under: Conveyancing, Google+, invitation, real estate

Silence Is Not Golden In Real Estate Negotiations
23 June 11 09:53 AM | Peter Mericka | 4 Comments   

OPINION by George Rousos Director Industry Training Consultants george@itc.nsw.edu.au François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French writer and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including Read More...

Filed under: Conveyancing, Deception, George Rousos, melbourne, misleading and deceptive, negotiations, real estate, real estate agent, victoria

Conveyancing Consumer Alert: Art Deco Disappointment
21 June 11 06:49 AM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   

OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au This story does not end, as many do, in a court case. But it begins, as many do, with a property advertised for sale: "Charmingly preserved Art Deco features abound Read More...

Filed under: art deco, body corporation, building inspection, Conveyancing, first home buyer, first home owner, melbourne, owners corporation, pest inspection, termites, victoria

Investigation of a Good Samaritan Conveyancer
08 February 11 01:52 PM | Peter Mericka | 5 Comments   

OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Marty Zelig was a former articled law clerk who, while continuing to study part-time for his law degree, became a project coordinator with a property development Read More...

Filed under: Conveyancer, Conveyancing

Honesty Absent In Nurse Betty's Flood-Prone Home Purchase
17 January 11 09:34 AM | Peter Mericka | 6 Comments   

OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au The saleslady told her first lie when Nurse Betty, as I’ll call her, noticed that the newly renovated highset house she liked adjoined a park and creek. “Any flooding Read More...

Filed under: brisbane, brisbane river, Conveyancing, flood, flooding, flood-prone, insurance, real estate

Conveyancing Consumer Forum - Questions & Answers
02 November 10 11:08 AM | Peter Mericka | 4 Comments   

Lawyers Conveyancing Facebook Page Quality and Legal Best Practice In keeping with our commitments to client satisfaction and continuous improvement as a Best Practice - Quality Endorsed Law Firm , we have established this self-help facility as a means Read More...

Filed under: Consumer, Conveyancer, Conveyancing, facebook, Q&A

Conveyancer Fined Over Conflict of Interest
14 September 10 08:41 AM | Peter Mericka | 8 Comments   

The Office of Consumer and Business Affairs (OCBA) is warning conveyancers of their legal duty to declare any relevant interests on properties they deal with, following successful disciplinary action in the District Court. Today Judge Wayne Chivell officially Read More...

Filed under: Conveyancer, Conveyancing, licensed conveyancer, south australia

Licensed Conveyancers Are Not Welcome in Queensland! (Or the A.C.T.)
08 September 10 05:00 PM | Peter Mericka | 19 Comments   

OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au The Queensland Law Society has happily informed its solicitor members that the Queensland Government does not intend to allow licensed conveyancers to practise Read More...

Filed under: Conveyancer, conveyancers act, Conveyancing, harcourts

Licensed Conveyancing - Deader Than Dead!
06 July 09 10:08 AM | Peter Mericka | 15 Comments   

OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd There are hard times ahead for the real estate conveyancing industry, and particularly for licensed conveyancers. Since Read More...

Filed under: conveyancers, Conveyancing, licensed conveyancer

Conveyancing For Both Parties - A High Risk Practice
24 March 09 03:10 PM | Peter Mericka | 1 Comments   

OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Acting for both parties is an unwise, high-risk practice for solicitors and their trusting clients. It should be prohibited absolutely by law. Brisbane solicitor Read More...

Filed under: conflict of interests, Conveyancing, marketeer

Solicitors Can Make Conveyancing Mistakes
22 December 08 12:50 PM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   

OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au An Appeal Court has ruled that a father and his daughter validly escaped a developer’s option to buy their property because of a solicitor’s slackness over the Read More...

Filed under: birmingham, Conveyancing, solicitor

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...

Filed under: Auction, conditioning, Conveyancing, Enzo Raimondo, neil jenman, overquoting, real estate, real estate institute of victoria, REIV, statistics

AICVIC "Strongly Recommends" Against Corruption?
08 December 08 10:13 AM | Peter Mericka | 8 Comments   

OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd If the head of a police force or a government department were to attack entrenched corruption by telling its members Read More...

Filed under: aicvic, australian institute of conveyancers, conveyancers act, Conveyancing, licensed conveyancer