Real Estate

The Northern Territory's public housing authority can amend its defence in a class action alleging it failed to maintain habitable housing in remote Aboriginal communities to allege that tenants failed to keep housing "reasonably clean".

REA Group's listings site will no longer require agents to provide it with all or most of their listings, after the ACCC expressed concerns the restrictive contract terms could breach competition laws.

In a sign of rebounding optimism in the office property sector, real estate investment trust GPT Group has picked up a Brisbane tower in the CBD's Golden Triangle precinct for $380 million.

Listings site realestate.com.au will no longer require agents to provide it with all or most of their listings, after the ACCC expressed concerns the restrictive contract terms could breach competition laws.

The developer behind a Shellharbour mixed-use development has defeated a suit seeking to make him personally repay a company debt, in a dispute a judge called a “cautionary tale” about side deals.

The grand-niece of billiards champion Walter Lindrum has won more time to file submissions in her dispute against a Time & Place subsidiary over its redevelopment of the historic Hotel Lindrum into a 27-storey commercial tower.

Perth Airport will pay United Petroleum $8.7 million after the company built a larger petrol station on the basis of the airport's representations that the Qantas terminal would be relocated. 

An architecture firm can maintain its proportionate liability defence in a defects lawsuit over the construction of an aged care facility in Box Hill, with a judge finding it has an arguable case. 

Former Keystone Asset Management director Paul Chiodo has agreed not to raise money for his property fund Royce Capital after ASIC alleged the fund was secretly being used to cover his legal fees in the regulator’s enforcement action.

The High Court won't hear Russells' bid to overturn a decision which found it could not rely on privileged communications to defend itself against allegations of incompetence from former client Meadowbrook Golf Course.