Course details
Essentials of Property Law
One-Day Course
Date: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Time: 9.30am - 5.00pm
Location: Holding Redlich, Sydney CBD, NSW
Acquisitions and Disposals
- What constitutes a contract of sale?
- What is an option agreement?
- How can I share project risk through development agreements, project delivery and joint ventures?
- Preliminary due diligence
- What are key considerations for buyers and sellers?
Planning & Environmental Law
- How planning law is structured and the role of SEPPs, LEPs & DCPs
- Submission of DAs to Council and what to look for
- Planning law outside the EP&A Act
- Current state of the review of planning legislation
- Getting the construction contract right
- Risk and its allocation
- Developer’s statutory liability for defects
- Legislation impacting contracts
- Managing liability of defects with builders
- Dealing with building defects and building bonds under the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015
- Trade practice and responsibilities of the marketer
- Unfair selling practices and disclosure
- Selling off the plan
- Strata, community and other forms of group title ownerships
- Different title structures and options
- The risks associated with various structures and managing risk
- Strata reforms
- Types of finance and funding
- Key risks
- Typical structures, documentation and security packages
- Repayments and defaults
Industrial Relations
- Employment law’s interaction with operating in property
- Issues with employing staff, including award compliance
- Minimising the impact of industrial disputes
- Recent and upcoming changes to the law
Developers, builders, planners, project managers, consultants and those thinking of undertaking a development themselves. This course will be of interest to a broad spectrum of people within the property development industry and adjacent spaces.
- The law as it relates to property development
- Recent changes to the law and those currently being contemplated
- To be aware of pitfalls when not taking into account the relevant laws
- To identify the tax implications that could apply to development
- To identify and manage legal risks by using practical skills
Course Host
COURSE SPEAKERS
Thomas Kwok
Partner
Holding Redlich
Leon Sakaris
Partner
Sparke Helmore Lawyers
Arlene Colquhoun
Partner
Maddocks Lawyers
Christopher Conolly
Partner
HWL Ebsworth Lawyers
David Bannerman
Principal
Bannerman Lawyers
Tim Capelin
Partner
Piper Alderman
Tony Britt
Special Counsel
Hamilton Locke
COURSE FACILITATOR
Stephen McMahon
Director, Inspire Planning
UDIA NSW President (2020 - 2022)
Stephen McMahon is a recognised planning and urban development professional with 30 years broad ranging experience and expertise in the establishment and management of planning and development projects and teams. He has been a member of the NSW Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) for over 20 years and in 2010 he was elected Councillor and has been a member of Council Executive, Treasurer and Vice President. Between 2020 – 2022 Stephen was President of the Institute. He is also a Registered Planner and Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia. More broadly, also Stephen sits on Sydney Water’s Customer and Community Reference Group, Jemena Gas Networks Customer Council and the NSW Department of Planning’s Better Places Advisory Group.
Member Registration
Individual
$825/each
Groups of 4+
(10% Discount)
$742.50/each
Non-Member Registration
Individual
$995/each
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Contact Us
UDIA NSW
Phone: 02 9262 1214
Email: pd@udiansw.com.au
Address: Level 5, 56 Clarence St, Sydney