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I have been looking for a house to buy but most of the ones I am interested in are for sale at auction. Is there anything that I need to be concerned about when buying a house at auction?

 

This summer I’m going on holidays in New Zealand and while I am away I will be looking at coastal property. What advice can you give me?

 

I have been looking at apartments in the city is there any advice you can give me about this?

 

Recently I have had problems with a couple of the companies I supply art to being wound up. It is bad enough that I am having problems recovering the money those companies owe me, but now I have got a letter from a receiver saying... How can this be correct?

 

A client of ours claims she does not have to pay her bill because she is in a temporary form of bankruptcy M.E.D. (Ministry of Economic Development) supplied paperwork to verify we had to wipe her debt, but as she owed less than 40K she doesn’t get made bankrupt! True?

 

Last year I finished settling with my ex, I now have a house in trust and my business in my own name. I am now in a new relationship and looking at getting married later this year. Will the trust protect me?

 

I signed up to purchase some land off the plans for a subdivision a couple of years ago. The agreement provided that I had to approve the subdivision plan but I don’t remember ever having given this approval...

 

I have an Easement (Right of way) which runs through three neighbouring properties to access mine. One of the neighbours has put a gate up which is annoying because in the rain I have to get out to open and close it...

 

Rights of way part 2 – This is a continuation of last month’s question regarding rights of way. Does the state of the gate (with the sign ‘Private Property, NO Vehicle Access, Trespassers Prosecuted” amount to a substantial interference of the Right of Way?