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Enzo Raimondo & REIV - Misleading Advice On Property Valuations
07 March 11 09:18 AM | Peter Mericka | (Comments Off)   

OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd Enzo Raimondo is the CEO of the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV), but he is not a lawyer. In fact, Mr. Raimondo Read More...

Filed under: appraisal, Enzo Raimondo, REIV, Valuation, valuer

REIV Provides Misleading Auction Advice
09 May 10 12:17 PM | Peter Mericka | 12 Comments   

OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd In his regular propaganda column in the Domain section of The Age newspaper, the CEO of the Real Estate Institute of Read More...

Filed under: Auction, raimondo, REIV, tim fletcher

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...

Filed under: Commission, Enzo Raimondo, REIV

REIV Ethics Disgrace
14 March 10 05:16 PM | 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 There is little doubt that the real estate industry in Victoria is the most corrupt in Australia. This is largely due Read More...

Filed under: acting for both parties, conditioning, conflict of interests, Deception, ethics, ranges first national real estate, real estate industry, real estate institute, REIV, underquoting, Valuation, valuer

REIV Pricing Ploy Relies On Lies
25 October 09 09:02 PM | Peter Mericka | 24 Comments   

by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd We now have the REIV inventing, and forcing its own legislation on real estate consumers. When will journalists, regulators, Read More...

Filed under: acting for both parties, advertisement, advertising, conflict of interests, conveyancers, Deception, Enzo Raimondo, Estate agent, ethics, gullifer, inspection report, legal advice, price, prices, real estate industry, real estate institute, real estate institute of victoria, real estate valuation, REIV, scam, Valuation, valuer

Enzo Raimondo - Auction System's Fair, You Can Quote Me
31 July 09 04:46 PM | Peter Mericka | 3 Comments   

OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd Following on from my previous posting in which I acknowledged Enzo Raimondo, CEO of the Real Estate Institute of Victoria Read More...

Filed under: acting for both parties, api, appraisal, conflict of interests, Deception, Enzo Raimondo, REIV, slod, Valuation, valuer

Enzo Raimondo - Valuation Misinformation From REIV
29 July 09 06:48 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 Enzo Raimondo, CEO of the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) is a master of the partial-truth. In a recent article Read More...

Filed under: api, Enzo Raimondo, REIV, Valuation, valuer

REIV Confusion On Estate Agent Role As "Go-Between"
07 July 09 01:09 PM | Peter Mericka | 18 Comments   

OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd Is it any wonder that the REIV (Real Estate Institute of Victoria) misleads, misguides and misinforms its members when Read More...

Filed under: Enzo Raimondo, negotiation, negotiator, real estate, real estate agent, real estate institute of victoria, REIV

REIV Votes Against Corruption Remedy
30 June 09 06:51 PM | Peter Mericka | 10 Comments   

OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd I believe that the real estate industry in Victoria is the most corrupt in Australia. This is confirmed time and again, Read More...

Filed under: corruption, real estate institute of victoria, REIV, underquoting, victoria

REIV - Bad Investment Advice On Buyers' Advocates
22 January 09 08:16 PM | Peter Mericka | 5 Comments   

OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd As an investment adviser Enzo Raimondo, CEO of the Real Estate Institute of Victoria is the last person a property purchaser Read More...

Filed under: buyer advocate, buyers agent, Enzo Raimondo, investment, Lawyer, real estate institute of victoria, REIV

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

New Contract of Sale of Real Estate - FREE Download!
09 October 08 02:33 PM | Peter Mericka | 18 Comments   

OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd I have been very critical of the underhanded approach taken by the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) in designing Read More...

Filed under: Contract, contract note, contract of sale of real estate, REIV

New Contract - Same Old Deception
08 October 08 07:49 PM | Peter Mericka | 3 Comments   

OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd The new Contract of Sale of Real Estate prescribed by the Estate Agents (Contracts) Regulations 2008 was supposed to Read More...

Filed under: Contract, contract note, contract of sale of real estate, Deception, REIV

Contract Note Banned! Estate Agents Lose Deception Tool
22 September 08 06:45 AM | Peter Mericka | 27 Comments   

OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd The document known in the real estate industry as “the standard REIV Contract Note” has been banned. As from 28 September, Read More...

Filed under: contract note, contract of sale, Deception, REIV

Geoff Thompson - Contract Switching At Barry Plant RE
18 August 08 11:12 AM | Peter Mericka | 44 Comments   

OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd Geoff Thompson is the Director of Barry Plant Real Estate in Croydon Victoria, and the Barry Plant Real Estate tag line Read More...

Filed under: Barry Plant Real Estate, Contract, contract note, croydon, geoff thompson, pauline ferguson, REIV, switching contracts