LANDLORD AND TENANT – LAW AND LEGISLATION – NEW SOUTH WALES

Plea for NSW tenancy laws to embrace email

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Original article by Michael Bleby
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 39 : 2-Feb-16

The New South Wales’ Residential Tenancies Act 2010 should be amended to reflect the growing popularity of electronic conveyancing. The state’s Real Estate Institute CEO Tim McKibbin says new forms of communication, such as electronic mail and text messages, are ubiquitous and this fact should be recognised by legislators. The institute expressed its views on this matter in a submission to the state’s residential tenancy laws review.

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THE REAL ESTATE INSTITUTE OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Elderly Welfare Street tenant stands ground in eviction row

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Original article by Rose Powell
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 8 : 5-Jan-15

Real estate investment groups HBW1 and Centennial Property in mid-2014 acquired residential assets from the New South Wales Government. One of the tenants now facing eviction, John Higgins, and his legal representatives from the Inner West Tenants’ Advice & Advocacy Service dispute a claim by the Lands Legal firm that the client ceased to be a protected tenant when the property was sold in 1989 to the Sydney Olympic Park Authority. Higgins maintains that his father signed the original lease in 1948 and that it is still in force. The Civil & Administrative Tribunal will hear the matter in early January 2015

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NEW SOUTH WALES. CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL, SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK AUTHORITY, LANDS LEGAL PTY LTD, STRATHFIELD REAL ESTATE PTY LTD, CENTENNIAL PROPERTY GROUP PTY LTD, INNER WEST TENANTS ADVICE AND ADVOCACY SERVICE, HBW1