If you’ve not an Australian or New Zealand citizen, and you don’t hold a permanent visa allowing you to be in Australia, then you are regarded […]

If you’ve bought a property and a registered proprietor has died, then either: There is a surviving joint proprietor or proprietors, who can lodge a survivorship […]

If you buy a property in rural or regional Victoria, you may see a few differences from buying a home in Melbourne. The property: May not […]

If you buy a property subject to a lease, then at settlement you become the landlord and are bound by the terms and conditions of the […]

Cooling off is the purchaser’s right to end a contract for the sale of real estate within 3 clear business days of the day that they […]

If a property has more than one owner, and they own the property as tenants in common, typically A and B are shown as tenants in […]

Contracts drafted by vendors occasionally include special conditions that require the purchaser to pay the vendor’s legal costs. However, subsection 42(3) of the Property Law Act […]

Individual trustees are people, and they can die.  This is why there are usually at least two individual trustees of a trust, and they own the […]

Unless it is released to the vendor by the purchaser before settlement (section 27), the deposit paid by the purchaser under a contract for the sale […]