Consumer Protection and the Building Commission have issued a joint warning to landlords and tenants insisting pool fences and safety barriers must be properly maintained to keep children safe this summer. The reminder follows a recent Coroners Court hearing that found delays in repairing a self-closing pool security door at a rental property contributed to…
A LITTLE boy has died after apparently being strangled by cords from curtains next to his cot.
AN elderly man was killed and his fibro home reduced to a pile of splinters in a gas explosion that reverberated across a NSW mid-north coast town yesterday. The ferocity of the blast at Tuncurry was felt kilometres away at Forster, with residents fearing an earthquake had struck their picturesque village. It was later revealed…
A three-year-old girl has fallen through a fly screen and out a first-floor window of a house on Sydney’s northern beaches.
How safe are your premises? Landlords can be held liable for leasing unsafe premisesA landlord has a general duty of care to a tenant to ensure that the leased premises are safe. A landlord is responsible to rectify defects in the premises that exist at the time the tenancy commences or at the time the…
The death of two young brothers in a rental property in Central Victoria is a tragic reminder that increased education is needed in the industry, according to one award-wining director.
An eight-year-old boy has drowned in a backyard pool on Sydney’s north shore, after going missing for about an hour.
A real estate agent was recently found liable for the injury of a tenant at a rental property and ordered to pay more than $800,000 in damages.
A two-year-old boy is in intensive care in hospital after falling about 13 metres from a unit block window and landing on concrete in Sydney’s north-west.
Professional indemnity (PI) insurance is a must in Australia’s increasingly litigious society. But how many industry professionals really know how their policy works? One Queensland-based principal discovered, to their cost, that they didn’t.
A family was lucky not to have suffered more serious injuries when the balcony they were eating dinner on gave way and they plunged up to six metres onto concrete on Sydney’s lower north shore, their rescuers say.
The death of a baby, who fell from her father’s arms when his foot went through a rotten verandah, has prompted a coroner to recommend an overhaul of the rental industry.
