FREE WEBINAR
Before You Sign: Legal Traps to Avoid When Selling Your Rent Roll
Thinking about selling your rent roll or agency?
Whether you're planning a full exit or just selling the rent roll and keeping your sales business, there's more at stake than most principals realise. Get it wrong and you could lose serious value, take on unexpected liabilities, or end up locked into a bad deal.
This free webinar will show you how to avoid the legal traps and protect your payday.
Who Is This Session For
This free session is tailor made for real estate agency principals who are thinking about selling - whether that means the whole agency, just the rent roll, or scaling back to focus on sales.
This webinar is for you, if you’re:
Exploring a full or partial exit strategy
Considering selling off your rent roll but keeping your sales business
Feeling unsure about the timing, valuation, or legal side of selling
Worried you might leave money on the table
Ready to step back, cash in, or shift gears - but don’t want to get stung by a messy deal
The Cost of Getting It Wrong?
Retention traps. Leaky contracts. Staff complications. Hidden liabilities.
One misstep when selling can cost you thousands - or worse, leave you legally exposed long after settlement. If you want peace of mind and maximum return, you need to get your legals right before you sign.
There is a Smarter Way to Sell
This isn’t theory. It’s a practical, real world session from lawyers who work on rent roll and agency sales every day.
You’ll get the insider legal knowledge that puts you in control of the sale - not at the mercy of the buyer or broker.
INTRODUCING…
Before You Sign: Legal Traps to Avoid When Selling Your Rent Roll
This is your step-by-step guide to avoiding deal disasters and walking away with a watertight contract and top dollar outcome.
Whether this is your first sale or your fifth, we’ll help you spot the traps, fix the gaps, and set yourself up for a clean, profitable exit.
What You’ll Learn
In this no fluff, practical session, we’ll walk you through exactly what it takes to sell your rent roll or agency the smart way. You’ll learn:
How to spot retention traps and draft contracts that save you thousands.
Why post completion restraints matter (especially if you’re keeping your sales business).
What happens to your employees when you sell and the hidden costs most principals miss.
Recent market trends in rent roll sales across NSW, ACT, QLD, and VIC.
Real life case studies - the good, the bad, and the ugly.
How our real estate agency lawyers can help you get maximum value with iron clad contracts.
You’ll walk away with clarity, confidence, and a clear idea of what it takes to get the best deal possible.
Meet Your Hosts
Jonathan Green
Partner, Realgate Legal
Jonathan brings a rare mix of deep legal expertise and real-world agency experience. As a former real estate agency owner and one of Realgate Legal’s most senior commercial lawyers, he has a practical understanding of how legal decisions play out in everyday operations.
Jonathan advises agency owners on employment law, contractor agreements, rent roll sales, business structuring, property development, and risk management strategies.
His advice is no-nonsense, practical, and laser-focused on what will actually protect and grow your agency.
Luke Shumack
Partner, Realgate Legal
Luke brings a unique mix of legal expertise and industry insight to his work with real estate agencies across Australia.
As a trusted legal advisor, he helps principals, agents, and support staff navigate their compliance obligations without the jargon.
Luke is known for breaking down complex legal concepts into plain English and helping agencies implement practical systems that actually work. Luke helps clients on a daily basis to sell and acquire rent rolls.
Realgate Legal is a law firm built for the real estate industry. We help agency principals protect their business, manage risk and make confident commercial decisions so they can build stronger, more valuable agencies.
Our team includes lawyers, some with real estate licences and firsthand experience working in and operating real estate businesses. By combining industry knowledge with strategic legal advice, we help agencies establish strong foundations, navigate growth and protect what matters.
About
Realgate Legal
You Don’t Need…
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To guess your way through the sale process
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A broker who glosses over the fine print
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To hope your contract protects you
You NEED…
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Smart, tailored contracts
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Clear legal strategy
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A plan to sell with maximum value and minimal stress
Still wondering if this is for you?
If you’re even thinking about selling — now or in the next 24 months — this session will save you time, money and stress.
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Before You Sign: Legal Traps to Avoid When Selling Your Rent Roll
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Boring legal stuff: Whilst this webinar has been designed and prepared by experts and lawyers, this is general advice only and cannot be relied upon as legal or valuation advice as it does not take into consideration your exact agency circumstances. This information is for guidance only as there are many variables in your agency. Contact us to find out if any of these variables apply to you. Whilst we may provide high level advice in live group sessions, you are not covered by professional legal privilege in those settings and anything sensitive or potentially litigious should only be discussed privately to maintain privilege. When we have 1 on 1 sessions with you, those sessions are regarded as legal advice. PS - congratulations if you have read this far, you must love legal disclaimers or are a sucker for punishment.