Blogs + Legal Updates
Practical legal insights for property, business and real estate professionals.
Legal Update Alert: Your employees right to disconnect
Navigate Australia’s Right to Disconnect laws and workplace changes. Learn how employers can update policies, support staff, and manage compliance risks.
Navigating Real Estate Agency Ownership: To Buy or To Build Your Business?
Should you buy or build a real estate agency? Explore the risks, rewards, costs and key factors to consider before choosing your business path.
Sellers Due Diligence: How and why you need to investigate your buyers
Protect your business sale with seller due diligence. Learn how buyer checks, risk assessments, and evaluations help secure a smooth transaction.
The Hidden Hurdle Which Delays Settlements in Share Sales: The Whitewash Procedure
Understand the Corporations Act whitewash procedure for share purchases, financial assistance, ASIC requirements, and selling or buying a real estate agency.
What happens to your agency if the Licensee in Charge (LIC/OIEC) is suddenly unable to manage your agency?
Prepare your real estate agency with succession planning, legal obligations, and continuity strategies for key license holders.
What happens if something happens to your business partner: Planning ahead in your company
Understand what happens when a business partner dies. Learn how succession planning, agreements, and legal advice can protect your agency’s future.
How IP Licensing may be the best way to expand your brand
Explore IP licensing for real estate agencies. Learn how licensing intellectual property can grow your brand, expand reach and protect your assets.
Legal Update Alert: Changes to the unfair contract term regime and increased fines – are you ready?
Understand Australia's unfair contract term laws. Help your real estate agency review contracts, reduce legal risk and stay compliant with ACL.
Managing Your Online Reputation: Client reviews for your agency
Manage real estate reviews with compliant strategies. Learn legal risks, consumer law obligations, and ways to handle feedback while building trust.
Who owns your business name: Biggest mistake made in relation to ownership of business names
Protect your business name with a trademark. Learn why registration matters, how to claim ownership and safeguard your brand reputation in Australia.
Real Estate Underquoting: What it is & how to avoid it
Understand underquoting laws in Australia, avoid costly compliance breaches, and keep your real estate agency's pricing accurate and legally compliant.
The must knows about real estate referral arrangements
Understand real estate referral agreements, including client referrals, commissions, fees and legal protections for agents and businesses.
Running a Legally Compliant Competition: Essential Must-Knows for Success
Learn how to run compliant trade competitions in Australia, including permits, terms and conditions, entry rules, and social media advertising requirements.
Intellectual property in the course of employment: What is it and do I own it?
Understand IP ownership under Australian employment law, including copyright, contracts, and employer or contractor rights for workplace creations.
Embracing the new ‘normal’: The legalities around working from home
Understand work from home laws in Australia. Learn employer obligations, WHS requirements, NES compliance and how to create compliant remote work policies.
How to update your employment contracts so they protect your agency
Update employment contracts to protect your real estate agency, client database, confidential information, and intellectual property.
Hiring a VA is so hot right now, but don’t get caught out with your legal obligations.
Learn how Australian Privacy Laws apply when hiring real estate VAs, covering client data obligations, VA contracts, and compliance risks.
Legal Update Alert! Increase to minimum wages & super guarantee contributions
Stay up to date with Fair Work changes, minimum wage increases, award rates, and super updates affecting Australian real estate employers.
Are my contractors actually employees? The good, the bad and the watch out!
Understand contractor vs employee rules in real estate, including tax, super, entitlements, and legal obligations to avoid penalties.
How to Minimise Data Breaches in your Agency
Prevent data breaches in your real estate agency with stronger systems, staff training, privacy practices, and compliance strategies.