Tenants and their guarantors remain liable for the obligations of a lessee under the lease even after they have assigned the lease to someone else. This means that if an assignee starts defaulting on their rent payments or the landlord terminates the lease for breach,...Read More
With the explosion in the number of unit blocks under construction, we have been assisting many of our clients with developments occurring next door that need a crane to undertake their construction. Owners (or in the case of a strata, the owners corporation) own the...Read More
Owners (or in the case of a strata, the owners corporation) own the land below the surface of their property. Commonly, when a developer needs to excavate the property next door (say to build a basement carpark), they need to install ground anchors under neighbouring...Read More
When registering a security interest on the Personal Property Securities Register (the PPSR) it is important to take great care when identifying the grantor (the person who has the interest in the personal property to which a security interest is attached). Errors...Read More
New laws require strata schemes to review their by-laws by 30 November 2017. This means that each of the 75,000 strata schemes in NSW that existed before the new laws came into effect on 30 November 2016 must undertake this review. The laws do not specify what the...Read More
2016 saw a major overhaul of strata legislation in NSW with over 90 changes. With more than a quarter of NSW’s population living or owning in a strata these changes with effect many of us. This is part 6 in our series summarising of some of the major changes to...Read More
