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2GB ‘How to Avoid Buying A Dud Property’

2020-10-08T11:58:59+11:00

11 JULY 2019 With Sydney-siders growing increasingly nervous about defective properties, here are some top tips for how to avoid buying a lemon. A third Sydney apartment block has been rendered unliveable in the space of twelve months after major defects were discovered in the buildings. With the owners of these properties essentially left high and dry by the builders and government, how will you make sure you won’t live to [...]

2GB ‘How to Avoid Buying A Dud Property’2020-10-08T11:58:59+11:00

Boycott: Is it time we had an off-the-plan ban?

2020-10-08T12:05:58+11:00

4 JULY 2019 The advice from Owners Corporation Network spokesman Stephen Goddard could not have been more blunt: Don’t buy apartments off the plan. His actual words in an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney's dirty strata secrets emerge through cracks in Mascot Towers -See post below for full story) were “prudent purchasers cannot buy strata ‘off the plan’ or, given that most defects emerge within a decade of construction, any [...]

Boycott: Is it time we had an off-the-plan ban?2020-10-08T12:05:58+11:00

NSW off-the-plan buyers to get better protection under new laws this year

2020-10-08T12:35:23+11:00

11 JUNE 2019 Off-the-plan property buyers will soon be better protected when long-awaited legal changes come into effect this September – and inject much-needed confidence into the Sydney new apartment market, project marketers predict. As a result of changes to conveyancing laws approved by the NSW Parliament late last year and to be introduced in the next quarter, developers will be made more accountable to buyers, and there’ll be more certainty. [...]

NSW off-the-plan buyers to get better protection under new laws this year2020-10-08T12:35:23+11:00
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