What is an Off-The-Plan Purchase?

  Most often people buy an existing property. However, when someone decides to purchase a property, such as a home unit, before it has even been constructed then they are selecting it off a plan that is presented to them. In New South Wales a vendor must give...

Beware of Agents Bearing Buyers

There is a practice engaged in by some real estate agents of contacting the owner of a property and informing them that the agent has an interested buyer of the property at a price that immediately sparks the owner’s interest. The agent then signs up the owner...

Options to Renew in Leases

Often a retail or commercial Lease will contain an option to renew which is a right of the tenant to obtain one or more additional Lease terms provided the tenant gives the landlord a written notice exercising the option within a specified time frame. If the tenant...