New South Wales follows suit with Victoria in tax hikes for foreign home buyers. The New South Wales government announced on 1 June 2017 that it will double its foreign investor stamp duty surcharge to 8% and also raise its annual...
Some time ago the Registrar of Titles in Victoria published a paper dealing with the requirements for paper conveyancing transactions in the state. Version 2 of the registrar’s requirements were published in March 2017 and notif...
Against a background of the High Court’s imprimatur of the contractualisation of leases, a lease variation agreed by the parties could be viewed simply as a variation of contract. However, as stated in Halsbury’s “at comm...
The recent appointment of Hunt & Hunt's Victorian property team to the Victorian Government Legal Services Panel demonstrates the depth and experience of our Melbourne property lawyers and paralegals. The team has been appo...
In e-Conveyancing, most of the focus to date has been on how to satisfy verification of identity (VOI) requirements. The VOI obligation is to take reasonable steps to verify the identity of each party to the conveyancing transacti...
In September last year, new rules were introduced in Victoria requiring mortgagees/lenders to take positive steps to verify the identity of mortgagors/borrowers and their authority to deal with the land being mortgaged. These chan...