PROPERTY LAW

Ownership structures, project developments, retail shop leasing, titling issues, property management and more.

Our team of property lawyers have a combined 100 years of legal experience in advising clients about property-related issues. We also prioritise multilingual skills in our lawyers – because we would like you to talk to someone who really understands the language you are speaking.

Our clients range from shopping centre owners, developers, international investors, managers and leasing agents through to small business owners and first-home buyers.

We can advise you about:

  • Ownership structures.
  • Project developments.
  • Retail shop leasing
  • Titling issues.
  • Property management
  • Body corporate schemes.
  • Acquisitions and disposals of shopping centres
  • Contracts and conditions.
  • Conveyancing.
  • Dispute resolution.
  • Buying and Selling Commercial buildings
  • Due diligence.
  • Easements and covenants.
  • Commercial leasing
  • Guarantees and indemnities.
 

CONVEYANCING

Whether you are buying or selling a home, unit, vacant block, strata title, commercial building, shop, or rural property, we can advise and assist you from beginning to end. 

We can talk you through:

  • real estate contracts
  • Sustainability declarations, disclosure and warning statements
  • Auction contracts and off-the-plan purchases
  • Cost appraisal, including stamp duty and disbursements
  • Tenancy Agreements/leases
  • Vendor’s statement, general conditions and special conditions
  • Retirement village purchases, leases and service contracts
  • Building contracts
  • Liaising with financial institutions in regards to deposit bonds, loans, mortgages and discharges of mortgages
  • Adjustments to purchase prices with rates and allowances
  • Foreign Investment Review Board issues

RETAIL SHOP LEASING

Our knowledge and experience with shopping centre and retail leasing is second to none. Over the last twenty years, we have built a specialised leasing team who concentrate specifically on managing lease negotiations for owners of more than twenty shopping centres around Queensland and northern New South Wales. 

We ensure our lawyers visit the shopping centres they look after so that they appreciate the daily commercial challenges that centre management staff face and the kinds of shopping centre environments in which they operate.

We also act for small business owners, who are the tenants in shopping centres of various sizes and locations. Our lawyers are well-versed in:

  • Letters of offer
  • Landlord and Tenant Disclosure
  • Agreements to lease
  • Different versions of Lease documents – what you can change and what you cannot
  • Fit out and Incentive agreements
  • Mortgages of leases
  • Assignments and sub-leases
  • Licensing arrangements
  • Renewals and extensions
  • Notices to remedy breach
  • Outgoings
  • Promotions/competitions
  • Redevelopment and relocation
  • Surrenders
  • Default/termination
  • Trading hours
  • Consumer law issues
  • QCAT and other courts
  • Disputes and compensation claims

COMMERCIAL LEASING

We support owners, managers and leasing agents in their dealings with the full range of legal issues inherent in the ownership and management of commercial properties.

We commit to a fast turn-around, which means that once a letter of offer is signed, lease documents are issued and finalised with accuracy and expediency. We have built key industry relationships that we can call on to get the deals done, while our specialised focus means we can attend to urgent matters in a timely manner.

We offer a complete commercial leasing and management service including advice recommendation and documentation to deal with:

  • Letters of offer
  • Agreements to lease/lease
  • Fitout/incentive agreements
  • Renewals and extensions
  • Relocation and redevelopment
  • Default/termination
  • Assignments and sub-leases
  • Licensing arrangements
  • Surrenders.

DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

Our development team has significant experience in a number of landmark projects around Brisbane. Our appointment as the trusted legal advisors on these substantial projects demands a consistently high level of skills and technical expertise.

The range of work we undertake for development projects includes:

  • Acquisitions and disposals
  • Off-the-plan contracts and agreements
  • Building contracts
  • Titling structures
  • Strata titling
  • Body corporate schemes
  • Residential and commercial sub-divisions
  • Car parks
  • Staged/mixed-use development
  • Joint venture documentation
  • General project documentation
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