September 2015

With the recent gazettal of the new LEP for the Sutherland Shire Council, there are numerous developers making offers to enter into options to purchase properties for the purpose of redevelopment. It is therefore timely to look at the issues that should be addressed in acting...

In many instances, property owners and/or property developers will need to access neighbouring land in order to undertake construction works on their own land, or to carry out work to services which service their own land. In the normal course, in the first instance discussions with...

From 30 January 2012, the Personal Properties Securities Register (PPSR) replaced a number of Commonwealth, state and territory government registers for security interests in personal property and became the single national source of registered security interests in personal property. Security interests which were previously recorded on...

Under Section 53 of the Residential Tenancies Act (the Act), a landlord is required to provide the tenant with 14 days' notice prior to the date that the premises are first made available for inspection to prospective purchasers. In respect of these inspections, the landlord or...

Often people believe that pre-contractual negotiations cannot amount to a binding contract where no formal contract has been signed. However, two recent cases have found binding contracts do exist in relation to leases and sale contracts, without the parties signing formal documents. Email exchanges can often result...