Subject to mandatory vendor disclosure obligations (see Overview — Vendor disclosures), any implied warranties or warranties included in contracts of sale, and the law relating to misrepresentations...
The contract for sale is the primary document entered into by a vendor and a purchaser. It is a legally binding agreement under which the vendor agrees to sell, and the purchaser agrees to purchase, a...
The sale of land ultimately involves passing title from the vendor to the purchaser. However, it is important that the parties, and the resulting contract, are clear on what is physically being transferred...
The Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 (Cth) (the Act) imposes limits on foreign ownership of Australian real estate. It is supplemented by the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulation 2015...
Contracts for the sale and purchase of land must be in writing, and executed by all parties, although equity may enforce oral contracts under the doctrine of part performance. (s 54A, Conveyancing Act...
Introduction What are the benefits of e-conveyancing over paper-based conveyancing? Electronic conveyancing (or e-conveyancing) benefits legal practitioners and the relevant parties in a number of...
Each jurisdiction has one or more standard form contracts that are widely used by lawyers, conveyancers and/or real estate agents and which are published by the law society, real estate institute and conveyancing institute within that jurisdiction. The following table sets out the most used standard form contracts within each jurisdiction:
Authored by Dr Stephen Pallavicini, Lead Property Lawyer, Marie Boustani, Property Lawyer, Woolworths Group Ltd and Sara Hatcher, Consulting Principal, Keypoint Law (NSW); Lisa Gaddie, Partner, Lander & Rogers (Vic); Luckbir Singh, Partner, MacDonnells Law, Despina Priala, Priala Legal and Simon LaBlack, Director, LaBlack Lawyers (Qld); Gary Thomas, Special Counsel, Anthony Davis, Director, McWilliams Lawyers and Katie Loughridge, formerly of Australian Government Solicitor office (WA); Philip Page, Retired Partner, Mellor Olsson and Constantine Costi, Principal, Costi & Co Commercial Lawyers (SA); Tim Tierney, Principal and Sebastian Thomas-Wilson, Principal, Tierney Law (Tas); Tony Morgan, Partner, Andrew Giles, Senior Associate, HWL Ebsworth and Lyn Bennett, Consultant, Minter Ellison; Leon Loganathan, Managing Partner, Ward Keller (NT); Christine Murray, Managing Partner, Stephanie Lynch, Partner, Meyer Vandenberg Lawyers and Duncan Webber, Partner, Moray & Agnew (ACT). Updated by the LexisNexis Legal Writer team.
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