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Buying a bach?
If you become tempted to purchase a bach over the Christmas period (as a certain partner of ours...
Working days
Through the Christmas period what “working days” means will depend upon what your contract or the...
The insurance business – time to stay in or get out
The new Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Act comes into force in March 2012. Under the new Act,...
Pre-auction legal checks
In an auction you generally accept the vendor's title, warts and all. In a recent contract I...
Felling Trees This Summer
Have heard about law changes making it easier to chop down trees? Are you waiting for 1...
Gift duty is no more!
The new gifting regime was ushered in on 1 October 2011. Does this mean no more annual gifting...
Destruction and leases (again)
There has been another case in relation to the ADLS standard lease clause, which provides the term...
Void Purchase Agreement – A Good Reason Not To Settle?
A number of property subdivisions completed within the last 2 or 3 years were originally pre-sold...
New Securities Act
The Government has recently released the proposed draft Financial Markets Conduct Bill (Bill). ...
Earthquake Prone Buildings in Auckland
Earthquakes in Auckland are a rare occurrence, despite us having had one last month. What...
You snooze, you lose – RMA and the developer
Agreements for sales off the plans will include sunset clauses – or "twilight" clauses...
Development funding anyone?
The changes to the NZ investor migrant policy that we flagged a couple of months ago have just...
Legal matters
If you’ve bought or sold property, are building a house, carrying out a property development, leasing a property, are thinking about succession planning, trusts or wills, setting up an EPA, or any other legal issues, these articles may answer some of your questions.