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Title Australia: New approach to rezoning in NSW and implications for industry Released late last year, the NSW Government discussion paper ‘A new approach to rezonings’ (Discussion Paper) makes the case for a large-scale transformation of the process for rezoning land in NSW. The overall aim is to reduce current timeframes for amendments to Local Environmental Plans (LEPs...	Author Corrs Chambers Westgarth	Date 14 Mar 2022
Title Croatia: Real Estate Investment Trends in Croatia Notwithstanding the weakened economy due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Croatia’s high-end residential market seems to be on the rise, in particular when it comes to foreign investments. Traditionally, most foreign investors in Croatia are Germans, Russians, Austrians, Slovenians, Czec...	Author LANSKY, GANZGER + partner	Date 04 Mar 2022
Title Canada: What Happens When a Party to a Contract Involving Real Estate Dies? What happens when an individual buyer or seller dies prior to the completion of a transaction involving real estate? This blog post discusses the complications that can arise in real estate transactions where there is a piece of land under contract and the individual seller or buyer dies prior to th...	Author Lawson Lundell LLP	Date 17 Jan 2022
Title Australia: Is a Mortgagee’s 60% default interest rate just a collateral advantage? Or is it unfair and unconscionable? Mortgagees should not only consider the content of a mortgage term, but the effect of its operation. If the effect of the mortgage terms could be seen to operate unfairly or unconscionably to a mortgagor, as discussed in the recent decision of the New South Wales Supreme Court in First Mortgage Cap...	Author Gadens	Date 13 Jan 2022
Title Canada: Commercial Leasing Bulletin: Lessons for Landlords In most commercial leases, a tenant’s option to extend or renew the lease is generally subject to the tenant’s satisfaction of a common set of conditions. At a minimum, landlords typically want to keep tenants with a history of default from having the right to extend the lease. A recent case pro...	Author Minden Gross LLP	Date 15 Dec 2021
Title Australia: A Guide To Understanding Land Tax: Part 7 - Primary Production Exemption This is part 7 of our Land Tax Series which aims to deconstruct the various aspects of the complex land tax legislation. To recap: land tax is a state and territory tax levied on the total taxable value of land held by taxpayers in particular jurisdictions. Land tax is assessed on a calendar yea...	Author Sladen Legal	Date 10 Dec 2021
Title Austria: Supreme Court (OGH) confirms: Entry ban in lockdown entitles to rent exemption COVID-19 is an epidemic that leads to the applicability of § 1104 ABGB (rent exemption in connection with inadvertent unusability) in case of pandemic-related entry bans. This has now also been confirmed by the OGH in its decision on 3 Ob 78/21y. However, it is still unclear whether all sectors aff...	Author Benn-Ibler Rechtsanwaite	Date 30 Nov 2021
Title Australia: Eight new zones – new risk of downzoning, new opportunity for upzoning The NSW Government has finalised its ‘employment zones reform’. Developers, landowners and planners will now have to grapple with eight new zones. The transition to the new regime will create risks of downzoning and opportunities for upzoning. The definitions of some key development types are al...	Author Mills Oakley	Date 15 Nov 2021