Our Property & Local Government Law Division boasts enormous legal experience amongst its member solicitors who between them have advised on the most complex of issues arising from not less than the following client categories

General Commercial and Property Law including:

• Many Local Governments, including, Baulkham Hills, Blacktown,  Fairfield,  Hornsby, Liverpool, Parramatta, Woollahra
• Property developers both large and small, both commercial and residential
• Large and small corporate clients
• Partnerships and trusts
• Individuals
• Commercial, industrial and domestic lessors of property
• Commercial, industrial and domestic lessees of property
• Clients requiring advice or documentation in relation to retail lease matters

The solicitors in our Property & Local Government Law Division are skilled in all areas of local government and environmental law in addition to property law and transactions whether commercial, corporate, industrial or residential.

In particular, we mention by way of example the following:

• Retail Leasing
  Retail leasing has undergone significant changes in the past few years following amendments to the Retail Leases Act.  The Division has particular expertise in relation to these amendments including advising on:
  • widening in scope of retail businesses
  • mandatory obligations to deposit cash bonds 
  • responsibility as to costs
  • stamp duty
• All aspects of:
  • commercial leasing
  • industrial leasing
  • consents and assignment of leases
  • variation of leases
  • grants of sublease
  • breaches of leases
  • termination of leases
  • options
  • carparking leases, short term leases; and
  • agreements for leases.
• General commercial and property law including:
  • property and development work
  • residential, strata, community title and commercial subdivisions
  • complex property transactions
  • multi staged rural subdivisions incorporating both rural and residential lots
  • preparation of contracts in relation to staged strata developments
  • preparation of contracts for community title developments
  • advice to local Councils in relation to property related transactions
• Environmental, Town Planning and government work including:
  •  Applications to the Land and Environment Court in all classes of the jurisdiction of the Land and Environment Court
  • Advising in relation to compensation claims under the Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation Act, 1991).
  • Advice work in relation to the preparation of Section 94 Contribution Plans
  • Preparation of Probity plans
  • Advice as to contaminated land
  • Preparation of draft environmental planning instruments.
• Domestic Conveyancing