Hope Island is one of the Gold Coast’s most exclusive suburbs. Home to an enclave of exclusive housing estates, such as Sanctuary Cove and Hope Island Resort, with several world class golf courses meandering in between.
The property website Domain are currently running a series of articles on selling a property, covering aspects from presentation and market advise, to sales tactics and the conveyancing process itself.
Brisbane came alive this weekend for the annual Teneriffe Festival. The streets were lined with a festival of food, markets and entertainment.
So you’ve spent countless weekends scouring the suburbs of Brisbane, or the Gold Coast for that perfect property and you think you’ve finally found ‘the one’ and are ready to put in an offer and sign a contract of sale. It’s right about now that you need to tap the brakes every so slightly. There’s no point rushing in and signing your name, as the entire conveyancing process will be dictated by this contract, so you want to make sure you’ve got it right before signing.
So you’ve had your property on the market for a while and have now signed a contract of sale and sold your property. First of all congratulations on the sale! While getting that offer may be exciting at first, we’re sure that a bit of stress is beginning to creep into your mind as you start to consider the long list of things you now have to take care.
Google has announced that it will be permanently shutting down the Spanish version of Google News, effective from December 16, 2014. The shutdown comes in direct response to amendments to the Spanish intellectual property law (Ley De Propiedad Intelectual) imposing a compulsory fee for the use of snippets of text to link to news articles, by online news aggregators that provide a search service.
Social media is so widely used nowadays that even you’re grandma is liking and commenting on your posts! It’s the place where the news hits first and if you’re not on it then you’re viewed as a bit of a rebel. With social media so commonplace there are certain pitfalls that come with it and over-sharing about something that happened in the workplace could land you in a lot of trouble with your employer.
The Federal Government's metadata retention policy has been widely publicized and widely criticized, but at this stage the Government is pushing ahead with it. Much of the criticism leveled at the policy has been the lack of clarification of what exactly metadata is, with many Government Ministers failing to provide a clear response when quizzed about it.
Social media is a fantastic tool for keeping in touch with people. It allows you to broadcast an update to close friends, acquaintances or to the public. This may seem like a great tool, however like any other tool it can be abused and there can be serious legal consequences as a result. For example, something we see all too often is the defamation of individuals via social media.
