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Realside wants hearing on preliminary question in fight over Rundle Mall valuations
Real Estate 2025-10-15 11:50 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Realside Rundle Square wants a preliminary question on a term in its lease heard first in a suit against M3Property and a valuer alleging tenants of Adelaide’s Rundle Mall in Adelaide have been overcharged for rent since 2006 due to valuation flaws. 

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Brookfield cites ‘variable’ nature of business in settling suit by ex-manager
Real Estate 2025-10-15 11:55 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Brookfield Properties has admitted that it failed to follow procedures on consultation and redeployment when it made a senior manager redundant when she was on parental leave.

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Ashurst moves fast to fill stamp duty gap with new partner hire
Real Estate 2025-10-14 11:54 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Ashurst has lured a senior tax partner from MinterEllison with substantial experience in real estate and infrastructure, a day after Corrs Chambers poached its global co-head of tax, who is an expert in the stamp duty. 

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Prefab home builder takes owners to High Court after $500K judgment
Real Estate 2025-10-13 3:30 pm By Christine Caulfield

A prefab home builder has filed an application with the High Court after it was ordered to pay $500,000 in damages for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct to convince a couple to vary their contract to allow the use of cladding they had previously rejected.

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Corrs Chambers lures tax pro with stamp duty expertise from Ashurst
Real Estate 2025-10-13 11:55 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Corrs Chambers Westgarth has snagged a tax partner from Ashurst with special expertise in the stamp duty, amid an ASIC review into the rule requiring superannuation funds to disclose stamp duties as fees.

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As trial approaches in case over $30M Brisbane development, more security ordered
Construction 2025-10-10 11:32 pm By Christine Caulfield

Developer CIP Group must fork over another $1.17 million in further security for costs in a derivative case against entities associated with a 600-lot development in Brisbane.

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Cairns office building sells for $77.5M
Real Estate 2025-10-10 11:25 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

A private group of local business people has purchased commercial office building Cairns Corporate Tower for $77.5 million.

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Court approves $4.5M development for $16.5M Mosman home
Construction 2025-10-09 11:32 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

The NSW’s Land and Environment Court has approved plans to amend an approved $4.5 million development application to tear down a $16.3 million Mosman property to make way for a new home and pool.

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Thomson Geer scoops up Baker McKenzie banking partner, special counsel
Business of Law 2025-10-08 11:53 pm By Julia Kanapathippillai

Thompson Geer has nabbed a partner and a special counsel from Baker McKenzie to grow its Melbourne-based banking and finance team.

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Catalyst wins $32M from Presbyterian Church of Qld for failed land deals
Real Estate 2025-10-08 11:32 pm By Sam Matthews

Property group Catalyst has won $31.7 million from a trustee corporation of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland over a suite of scuppered transactions for land and aged care homes.

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