Real Estate

A former client of a Sydney law firm has lost his bid to up a $300,000 damages award against the firm over a defective notice in a proposed $7.8 million land sale.

A judge has ordered financier MaxCap to hand over certificates of title for property associated with collapsed developer APH Holding's $320 million Wellington Health precinct in the Melbourne suburb of Box Hill.

The firm behind a class action over remote housing in the Northern Territory has appealed a decision rejecting its bid to undo orders on the scope of the initial trial, after the judge disregarded submissions by a class action solicitor that "affronted" her.

The funder that's backing a class action over land compulsorily acquired for Sydney's WestConnex road project has been ordered to pay security in satellite proceedings seeking to claw back $1.4 million in costs from the lead applicants.

The federal government has proposed a significant expansion of the foreign resident capital gains tax regime that will prohibit foreign investors from cashing out tax free on large-scale infrastructure projects on Australian land, with one major firm calling the proposed changes "unwelcome" and "alarming".

The funder that's backing a class action over land compulsorily acquired for Sydney's WestConnex road project has filed an application to substitute the lead applicants, amid an ongoing fight about whether the case should be discontinued. 

The former Australian head of HR at real estate giant Jones Lang LaSalle alleges she was unfairly sacked in the fallout of a harassment investigation against an executive despite having recommended his dismissal. 

The High Court has agreed to review a ruling that upheld an easement of prescription -- or right of long use -- in a fight between a member of the prominent Valmorbida family and an entity linked to the founder of collapsed construction group Steller over access to a Sorrento property.

The High Court has declined two special leave applications in lawsuits over the failed Pentridge Village development in Melbourne. 

The former Australian head of HR at Jones Lang LaSalle claims she was ostracized and unfairly sacked in the wake of a harassment investigation into a senior manager, which sparked a media frenzy Australian leadership was allegedly told to "ignore".