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The team has experience developing multi-use high-rise buildings, apartments, all manners of leases - including malls and carparks, among a myriad of other commercial property deals.

Janice and Mike have been involved in commercial property transactions for over 60 years collectively. We have seen it all, and are equipped and ready to go.

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Auckland city and waterfront

Relief for commercial tenants

The Government just released guidance today for eligible commercial landlords and tenants who have not yet resolved what, if any, rent or outgoings abatement

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Further Guidelines on Rent Relief due to Covid-19 Restrictions

There has been much discussion lately about whether, and by how much, rental for commercial premises should be reduced because of the Covid-19 lockdown.
Commercial propertySelling commercial propertyLeasing commercial property
Building a commercial property

Landlords: Out of sight, out of mind is not good enough!

As a landlord, there’s still an obligation to manage risks in relation to your premises, even when you have a tenant in place.
Commercial propertyLeasing commercial property
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Further Changes to Overseas Investment Rules Coming

Change is on the horizon for overseas property investment regulations as the second and final stage of the review of the Overseas Investment Act 2005 gets underway.
Residential propertyBuying residential propertyCommercial propertyBuying commercial property
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Unit Titles Act 2010: are you complying?

​A unit title is a form of property ownership where you own your unit, but the common areas are owned by the body corporate. This ownership structure is common in high-rise apartment blocks.
Residential propertyBuying residential propertyCommercial propertyBuying commercial property
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Property sale and purchase: GST

Generally speaking, GST on a property sale and purchase between two GST-registered entities results in a ‘GST neutral’ position for both the seller and the buyer. It’s essential that the sale and purchase agreement contains the correct wording, particulars and information in respect of the GST position of the parties to the agreement.
Residential propertyBuying residential propertySelling residential propertyCommercial propertySelling commercial propertyBuying commercial property
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Buying “off the plans”: the legal lay of the land

After 25-odd years, I’ve lost count of the cases I’ve seen where people would wager a vital organ they haven’t put a single legal foot wrong. In reality, they’re marinating in wrongdoing, risk and liability.
Residential propertyBuying residential propertyCommercial propertyBuying commercial property
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Buying a cross lease property

New Zealanders love to talk about property. There are a multitude of topics relating to property that Kiwis have an intimate knowledge and understanding about which form the topic of water cooler and dinner conversation. The cross lease is just one of those many topics of conversation.
Residential propertyBuying residential propertyCommercial propertyBuying commercial property
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Private land with public access

Our ability to access the ‘great outdoors’ in New Zealand is seen as something of a citizen’s right. At times, however, It does conflict with the rights of private landowners when, in order to access the great outdoors, there is a need to cross their private land first.
Residential propertyCommercial property
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Missing forms causing grief with new foreign buyer laws

Most laws tend to have initial bedding-in challenges. In the case of the new foreign buyer legislation, it’s the failure by would-be buyers to complete a crucial new form – an oversight so significant, it’s already derailing sales and causing financial grief.
Residential propertyBuying residential propertyCommercial propertyBuying commercial property
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