by Vivien Compton | Jun 25, 2021 | Leverage Review
THEY ARE BACK!! Remember those words in Poltergiest 2. That cute little girl who was haunted by those horrid aggressive ghosts. That’s what came to mind this week when restrictions were reimposed. That pesky virus is back, haunting us all. I noticed that the...
by Vivien Compton | Jun 18, 2021 | Leverage Review
I had the opportunity this week to discuss the current property market with one of its leading statisticians, Kent Lardner. Kent indicated that the housing market is unpredictable. Cycles are all over the place, and banking and government policies are in a state of...
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...
