This is a question often overlooked when buying your home. It is, however, a common situation when two people are buying a property together. Let’s take an example to show how these both work.
Our team here at Aspiring Law is fielding a lot of queries about the latest changes to what’s known as the “bright-line test”, the property tax regime that came in in 2015.
It’s now nearly two years since significant changes to the Residential Tenancies Act came into force – so, it’s timely for landlords to double-check they are complying with the new laws, and are up with the play on what’s yet to come.
A recent High Court case (Mitchell v Zhang [2015] NZIT3208) clarified a vendor’s obligation to disclose information about land to a purchaser – and serves as a reminder of how critical timely due diligence and legal advice is when buying property.
On the face of it, buying bare land might seem a far simpler task than purchasing a home. In reality, though, there are often just as many considerations and potential traps for the unwary. Buying a property tends to be an emotional experience for most of us, and even some of the fundamentals can get overlooked in the heat of the moment.
