by Vivien Compton | Apr 20, 2021 | Leverage Review
The temporary COVID-19 rental eviction moratorium ended on 26 March 2021. The moratorium was introduced to limit when tenants could be evicted due to rental arrears resulting from COVID-19. Transitional measures for COVID-19 impacted tenants A six-month transition out...
by Vivien Compton | Apr 16, 2021 | Leverage Review
Too many have got it wrong! Assistant agents are not exempt from CPD! It is a condition of all assistant agent’s registration to complete at least three units of their certificate iv. Everyone is aware that an assistant agent must graduate with a class two...
by Vivien Compton | Apr 9, 2021 | Leverage Review
Fair Trading has announced on April Fool’s Day that they will be commencing a blitz of the industry regarding “underquoting”. Leverage has consulted with Fair Trading regarding the scope of this blitz. The focus of the blitz will be on representation to consumers....
by Vivien Compton | Mar 26, 2021 | Leverage Review
It happens! Agents do get attracted to the properties of their Vendors. In the off the plan real estate world, Agents are encouraged to buy their Vendors stock and sell it to their friends and relatives. Developers love it Section 49 of the Property and Stock Agents...
by Vivien Compton | Mar 19, 2021 | Leverage Review
A question was posed to me in a CPD class in Canberra last week regarding whether suicide was a material fact that needed to be disclosed to potential purchasers. They further asked me whether, if the house was knocked down and sold as land only, does the suicide...