Retirement village operator Lifestyle Communities has foreshadowed an appeal after a tribunal ruled that exit fees charged to departing residents were void.
Shinetec, the Australian arm of China’s Shanxi Construction Investment Group, has won orders restraining the developer of an abandoned $185 million project in NSW from accessing $48 million paid to it by Bank of China.
A court has found a NSW prefab home builder that convinced a couple to vary their contract to allow different cladding which did not have the same aesthetic effect as their preferred one engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct.
Melbourne developer SK Developments has won freezing orders against a builder, with a judge finding there was a danger that a $1.98 million judgment could be avoided.
Property investment firm Charter Hall has sold its Bunnings Warehouse in the southeast Melbourne suburb of Clyde North for $44 million, in an off-market deal that reinforces the strength of retail real estate.
A tribunal has recommended a solicitor who continued to advertise his legal services on social media after his practising certificate was revoked should be struck off the roll.
The Victorian Bar has hit back at media reporting around the management of commercial litigation by Australian courts which singled out judges of the Supreme Court, saying “statistics never tell the whole story”.
A judge hearing a dispute over a lot in Victoria’s Merrifield Business Park has found that the Competition and Consumer Act’s bar on contracts that substantially lessen competition does not apply to a market in land.
HWL Ebsworth has acquired Adelaide law firm Botten Levinson Lawyers, boosting the firm’s environment and development law offering in the region.
Sentinel Property Group has purchased its most expensive office asset since its establishment, paying $132 million for a fully-leased office building in the heart of Brisbane’s Olympics precinct.