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Unsolicited Mail – Dead on Arrival

By on February 10, 2011 in Design, Legal, Marketing, Real Estate Agents, Soapbox

For a few years now I have been writing about unsolicited marketing materials landing in your traditional mailbox and how the tides of environmental change will eventually outlaw this practice. Casting my mind back to 2004, I remember arriving in Sydney and actually being quite shocked at how much of this junk was floated around [...]

James Packer, Nine, Yellow Pages

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Realestate.com.au takes legal action against Realestate1.com.au

By on November 13, 2010 in International, Legal, Portals, Real Estate Agents

We all remember a few years back where we broke the story about realestate.com.au attempting to trademark the name “Real Estate”. Well now it seems they are to flex their muscle with this trademark against the similarly named Realestate1.com.au Leaving aside the fact that only a simpleton would think they were owned by the same [...]

REA, Realestate.com.au, Realestate1.com.au

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The Creative Commons

By on July 30, 2010 in Legal, Real Estate Agents

If applications like iTunes present themselves as the ‘proverbial coffin’ for the music industry, Creative Commons provides the nails to hammer it shut – and change the way we produce content forever – just like Wikipedia re-shaped the encyclopedia. Creative Commons licenses allows you to publish your work online, while letting others know exactly what [...]

Creative Commons, iTunes, wikipedia

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NSW Residential Tenancy Bill 2010 looks like being pushed through Parliament

By on June 10, 2010 in Events, Legal, Real Estate Agents, Soapbox, What's New

In a decision that is set to impact approx. 1 in 4 people within New South Wales, the new Residential Tenancy Bill 2010 has now been passed without amendment by the Lower House of the NSW Parliament and has just been introduced into the Upper House. Earlier this week I posted an article on apmasphere [...]

Minister for Fair Trading, REINSW, Residential Tenancy Bill 2010

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Is the NSW State Government the new Greece?

By on May 13, 2010 in Business, Legal, Real Estate Agents, Soapbox

When you hear the words “quietly” and tax in the same sentence you know what you are about to hear is going to be bad! And that is exactly what has happened in the last 24hrs in NSW politics and the real estate industry. Yesterday Premier Keneally quietly introduced a new property tax, being referred [...]

Global Financial Crisis, Greece, Land Transfer tax, NSW, Premier Keneally, Property tax, State Government

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How do you Feng Shui Pauline Hanson?

By on April 29, 2010 in Business, Legal, Real Estate Agents

Along with real estate, travel has always been a passion of mine. The diverse cultures of the world are always a source of inspiration but more and more this travel has come to serve me well in selling real estate. I woke up to the news this morning that Pauline Hanson will not sell her [...]

agents, China, Chinese, Feng Shui, Pauline Hanson, Racial Profiling

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Residential Tenancies Bill 2009

By on January 15, 2010 in Legal, Real Estate Agents

The Government has taken very limited industry consultation on the proposed Residential Tenancies Bill 2009 and the result weighs heavily in favour of the tenants.  Obviously the industry is all for protecting the rights of tenants, however if proposed clauses such as the tenants ability to break a fixed term lease and tenants being able to [...]

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IP Australia clarifies realestate.com.au trademark application

By on April 11, 2008 in Legal

This is a letter from IP Australia in relation to the realestate.com.au trademark application. April 2008 Statement regarding realestate.com.au‚ There has been considerable interest in the acceptance by IP Australia of the trade mark Œrealestate.com.au‚ for a range of goods and services including real estate affairs and advertising of real estate. The registration has been [...]

IP Australia, REA

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REA registers realestate.com.au trade mark

By on April 8, 2008 in Legal

Update: The REA Application has been passed by IP Australia, however this still can be rejected and is under review. There has been objection raised and now it will go to a hearing. The closing date for objections is nearing completion. If the trademark is successful then any legal matters are between the two parties [...]

REA, Shaun Di Gregorio, Trademarks

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