We provide our clients with exceptional service and experience in a number of legal areas including Conveyancing, Business and Personal matters.
We have acted on many hundreds of conveyances of property including: - residential, rural, commercial and ‘off the plan’ vacant land and home unit transactions throughout Queensland for local, Queensland, Interstate and Internationally based clients.
Your conveyancing is entrusted to an experienced lawyer who develops a close working relationship with you. You will not be passed from conveyancer to conveyancer nor represented by a company which is supervised by a non conveyancing lawyer or acts for both Seller and Buyer (at the same time) or takes its instructions primarily from the selling agent. All of these common practices run contrary to our ethical responsibilities as a legal practice.
We are able to settle your transaction either in the traditional “manual’ way or ‘electronically’ through PEXA via our Settlement partners Infotrack Property Services Pty Ltd. We utilise their size and sophisticated encrypted systems including Settle It, Secure Exchange, Web VOI and Sign It together with our own Web Portal to ensure secure access to your documentation and other important information. We do not conduct a Trust Account, for this reason, preferring to utilise InfoTrack’s high end encrypted systems to ensure that your financial information and resources are protected at the highest level possible.
We can also assist you with Family Transfers of property including associated advice and Loan documentation where appropriate.
We are able to provide advice on your DraftContract and appropriate ‘Special conditions’ in order to protect your what is likely to be amongst the most important Investment decisions you will make. If you have already signed a contract, then we will takes steps to ensure that you can make a fully informed decision to proceed - whether it relates to your Pest & Building Inspection, Finance application or ‘Due Diligence’ inquires.
We will advise you regarding grants and Stamp duty concessions available to you and coordinate with your broker and/or financial institution to ensure settlement occurs on time.
We can draft your ‘Special conditions’ or Contract (if no agent is involved in the sale), and advise you in relation to matters relating to your sale (or as necessary , refer you to experts for advice on issues like GST & Capital Gains Tax). We will advise you regarding your ‘disclosure obligations’ and coordinate with your broker and /or financial institution to ensure settlement occurs on time.
We have been involved in the Sale and Purchase of a diverse range of small businesses including Cafes, Real Estate Agencies and Rent Rolls, Supermarkets, Newsagents, Service Stations and Rural businesses, including farms. We have the experience and expertise to know when to refer your for specialist taxation, accounting or other advice and how to prepare your Contract and/ or Special conditions (whether Buying or Selling) in order to protect you investment and ensure that proper due diligence inquiries are conducted and that an efficient settlement is assured.
We have prepared Lease documentation for numerous Lessors and Lessees as well as negotiating Extensions, rent reviews amendments and terms for assignment of Lease (upon the sale of a business). We act in relation to leases of Retail, Commercial, Industrial & Rural properties. If you are seeking a Certificate of Independent Advice in relation to a Retail Shop Lease, we can also assist you.
We are able to provide Certificates of Independent Advice in relation to Business Loan & Guarantee documents as well as liaising with your Accountant or Financial adviser to ensure that you are covered for all eventualities whether you are setting up or ‘winding down’ a Business.
Whether a Simple Will & Powers of Attorney for Individuals or Couples or more complex estate planning we can work with you and if required, your Financial advisers and other experts to ensure that you Estate is well managed at the appropriate time If you have been appointed Executor of a Will or require assistance with Administration of an Estate or a Grant of Probate of a Will, please contact us. We have acted in relation to the administration of many estates for private clients as well as for other legal firms who have required an agent for this purpose.
We have provided advice to numerous clients on a range of varying issues that are covered by our extensive experience over a range of areas of legal practice. We seek to provide ‘proactive’ and ‘down to earth’ advice and we maintain a network of other professionals to whom we may refer you if your concern is beyond our areas of practice or expertise.
If you require assistance with an Application for Divorce or have reached a mediated or informal agreement with your partner regarding matters relating to property settlement, we are happy to assist you with documenting your agreement for filing with the Family Court as “Consent Orders’.
In keeping with our philosophy of not engaging in contested matters we will not act for you if you are in dispute regarding any of the matters relating to your settlement ‘agreement’ and we shall refer you to Independent Accredited Family Law Specialists to resolve the dispute. We do not act in matters involving children - but can refer you to someone who can.
