by Vivien Compton | Jun 4, 2021 | Leverage Review
You all have been touched by those humans who troll the streets putting little bits of yellow paper under our windscreen wipers, which require us to pay money to the State. We call them “brown bombers”! They would have to be the only people who go home every day...
by Vivien Compton | May 28, 2021 | Leverage Review
You can always rely on property to throw up something from left field. Sometimes the real estate journey leaves us without an answer. Section 64 of the Property and Stock Agents Act, 2002 (“the Act”) permits an agent to participate in the exchange of residential...
by Vivien Compton | May 21, 2021 | Leverage Review
FLOOD CONTROL The new “Material Fact” regime is so much better then what we had. The amendments to Section 52[1] of the Property and Stock Agents Act 2002 (“The Act”) codified the meaning of “Material Fact”. Whilst before we had to guess, The Act identifies only 7...
by Vivien Compton | May 5, 2021 | Leverage Review
Talk about confusion! Fair Trading in the establishment of a CPD year has caused absolute confusion in relation to when an Agent must undertake their CPD. What does the law say? Every Agent must do the CPD applicable for that year; and It is a condition of the...
by Vivien Compton | Apr 28, 2021 | Leverage Review
If you do not renew your licence, you ban yourself from working in the industry! There appears to be much confusion in the industry regarding renewal dates. Let’s blow the Myths: 1 Fair Trading will send me a reminder; 2 My renewal date is 23 March like everyone else;...
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...
