:: Home Warranty Insurance
    - Read your Home-owners' Policy carefully before engaging a residential builder
     The Home Owners'Warranty policies issued by insurers in NSW sometimes have a clause restricting the right of home-owners to claim under the policy except in the event of the builder's "disappearance, death or insolvency".

:: Commercial Residential/Strata Issues
    - Who Benefits from sharing the burden if one party cannot be sued? Part IV of the Civil Liability Act (NSW)
     In one of the first significant decisions on the impact of proportional liability in this State, Justice Einstein in the Supreme Court before Xmas, made the following findings...

:: Methods of Dispute Resolution
     Ordinary people think that this dispute procedure should be favoured because it is cheapest - because they can do it themselves. They are wrong. Successful negotiation quite possibly requires more training and experience than any of the following methods...

:: Trades
     There are various different classes of tradesperson that homeowners often employ to carry out works on their home, they typically include concreters, bricklayers, carpenters, roof tilers, plasterers, tilers, painters, fencers, electricians, plumbers and gasfitters....

:: Building Contract: the traps
     It is always beneficial for both homeowners and builders to have a signed written contract before any building work starts. There are obvious reasons for this...

:: Choosing a Lawyer or other Building Consultant
     Seeking legal advice is most likely necessary when home owners discover defects in their buildings, run into disputes with the contractor or developer, or when their Home Owners Warranty insurance claims are refused...

:: Financing your Home
     The choices:

1. Self finance
2. Building finance
3. Bank finance
4. Non-bank lenders
5. Mortgage brokers

    When home owners enter into a loan contract to obtain finance for their home, it is ...