Property Law
Preparing your Business for Sale
By Cassandra Emmett
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Two areas where a commercial lawyer can help you in preparing your business for sale:
Pre-marketing preparation, and
The sale itself.
Pre-marketing preparation essentially means a health check on your business. Is it all in order for a sale? What is your structure and how do you best transition [...]
NSW New Home Buyer Incentives
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Considering buying property in Googong or another NSW area?
Home buyer incentives offered by the NSW government include grants and stamp duty reductions.
New Home Grant of $5,000 from 1st July 2012
The NSW Government New Home Grant Scheme offers a $5000 grant to all non-first homebuyers who purchase a new home valued up [...]
Restrictive Covenants
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Many purchasers find when they purchase land or an existing home that their solicitor emphasises the “Restrictions on Use” or the “Covenants” on the title to the property.
The covenants are usually created by a developer at the time the land is first developed and subdivided. There are a few of [...]
Trusts
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Trusts constitute a flexible instrument in securing efficient distributions of income between beneficiaries and a discretionary trust may result in taxation benefits (including capital gains tax advantages when compared with companies) if properly implemented. Unit trusts have an important place in formation of [...]
Buyer Beware at Auction
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The New South Wales Supreme Court has confirmed that sellers are well protected when they decide to put their property between a gavel and a rostrum in its recent decision of David Anthony Burnet & Anor v Lily Maria Gubbay [2011] NSWSC 977.
On 29 August this year the buyer, Ms Gubbay, [...]
