by Cameron Shaw | Apr 18, 2016
Any* contract entered into on or after 1 July 2017 for the sale of land for a market value of $750,000 or more requires a vendor to obtain and provide a “Clearance Certificate” to the purchaser otherwise the purchaser must withhold 12.5% of the purchase...
by Cameron Shaw | Mar 23, 2016
In response to media pressure, in late 2015 the NSW government changed the law to restrict developers from using ‘sunset’ clauses in off-the-plan contracts to benefit themselves. A sunset clause is where a developer is entitled to rescind the contract for...
by Cameron Shaw | Aug 18, 2015
In the case of freehold, definitely, in the case of strata, it depends.
by Cameron Shaw | Aug 15, 2015
If your property has a “swimming pool”, a Contract for Sale of Land in NSW must attach a Certificate of Compliance, or Non-Compliance, as the case may be. The swimming pool certificate is a prescribed document by reference to Schedule 1 Clause 15 of the...
by Cameron Shaw | Aug 15, 2015
If you’ve done works without council approval then there’s a whole bunch of issues which can emerge, but, you wouldn’t be the first, and if you were thinking of selling, plenty of houses are sold all the time with “unauthorised...
