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The Ultimate Real Estate Sales Office
29 August 09 03:23 PM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   
OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd The ultimate real estate office model has arrived. It's the ILP - a lean, clean sales machine that combines the roles Read More...
The SLOD! Best Price Negotiation Strategy
10 July 09 03:00 PM | Peter Mericka | 32 Comments   
OPINION by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd As readers know, I have been very critical over the years of the schemes and scams used by real estate agents. Obviously, Read More...
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...
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...
Beware of Agents' Pet Building Inspectors!
09 September 08 08:54 AM | Peter Mericka | 10 Comments   
OPINION by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au When will governments put in place stronger legislative measures to protect real estate consumers not only from self-serving real estate agents, but also from 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...
Just How Many Phantoms Are Out There?
05 March 08 09:57 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 A comment on our recent posting about "phantom" property listings makes me wonder whether we may have only just scratched the Read More...
Cameron Fisher - Something Very Fishy!
28 February 08 05:27 PM | Peter Mericka | 8 Comments   
by Peter Mericka B.A., LL.B Real Estate Lawyer Qualified Practising Conveyancer Victoria Director Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd On Tuesday 26 February, 2008 I typed "Docklands" into the search facility at www.realestate.com.au. On page 4 of the Docklands Read More...
The "Oh", "Really?" and "I Wish I Had Known That!" of Making an Offer and Organising Finance
24 January 08 09:55 AM | Shannyn Hunter | 7 Comments   
by Shannyn Hunter Conveyancer shannyn@lawyersconveyancing.com.au Lawyers Conveyancing On Monday morning purchasers can experience a real estate hangover. After a weekend of elation at finding their dream house and pressure from the agent to make an offer, Read More...
Catch 32 On Solicitors' Independence
06 December 07 08:53 AM | Peter Mericka | 1 Comments   
by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au Queensland’s Office of Fair Trading has lost, and lost badly, a landmark case mounted in the Commercial and Consumer Tribunal against Gold Coast solicitor Donald Dickie. Read More...
A Reward For Your Good Word
15 November 07 11:32 AM | Peter Mericka | 1 Comments   
by Tim O'Dwyer M.A., LL.B Solicitor Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au The letter below recently came to me in the mail from a nearby estate agency. This agency happens to be part of a national real estate franchise which proudly boasts “offices Read More...
Dodgy Property Data
10 October 07 09:23 AM | Peter Mericka | 4 Comments   
by Terry Ryder Real Estate Journalist Consumer Advocate Confusion reigns as industry rains dodgy data. It's not a new problem but it seems to be getting worse. The muddle of conflicting statistics constantly churned out by the property industry is making Read More...
An Unwanted Renovation
17 July 07 12:50 PM | Peter Mericka | 0 Comments   
by Shannyn Hunter Conveyancer Lawyers Conveyancing Imagine coming home from doing the weekly shopping to find a deep chasm where the fish pond and shed used to be. This was the reality Ballarat East resident, Ivan Bolt, faced last Wednesday as reported Read More...
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