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Whether you are a property owner who needs a lease drawn up, or you are taking the plunge and renting out a commercial property. DMC Lawyers has the experience to advise you on the lease documents. We can negotiate changes to the lease documents so that they protect your interests.

When we act for owners of property, it is crucial to ensure a few key points:

1.  That the terms of the lease match the commercial terms that were agreed between the parties;
2.  That the clauses dealing with maintenance and repairs are what were agreed;
3.  That the default clauses allow you to enforce your lease, if necessary;
4. That the clauses that deal with transferring a lease sufficiently protect you, so that you have a tenant who can meet its lease terms.

DMC Lawyers has 10+ years experience in assisting both vendors and purchasers in buying and selling commercial and residential buildings/houses. So whether you are a mum and dad looking at upgrading/downsizing or a savvy investor who is looking at adding to the portfolio, DMC Lawyers can assist you in:

1. Preparing or reviewing the contract for sale;
2. Liaising with your lender to ensure that funds are provided on time;
3. Liaising with your lender to pay off your mortgage on settlement;
4. Ensuring that all utilities are paid before settlement;
5. Doing searches on the property to make sure that property is not affected by anything adverse;
6. Ensuring that settlement proceeds smoothly and without fuss so that there is less stress for you. 

DMC Lawyers has a niche knowledge of NSW retirement village law, so if you are looking at moving into a retirement village, DMC Lawyers can help. We can review the village documents and advise you on the potential pitfalls of them and run through the practicality of moving into these villages. Retirement village documents are quite complex and are unique in the fact that you will pay an ongoing contribution to the village operator who can then take a percentage of this when you move out. This needs to be reviewed by a lawyer with experience in the retirement village sector, and DMC Lawyers can provide you with the peace of mind that you know what you are buying into.

Put & Call Options are used quite regularly if you are buying a development property or if you are selling to a developer. Essentially, the call option allows a buyer to purchase a property during a specified time period for a set price, and a put option forces the buyer to buy the property if they do not exercise the call option. These are very precise and unique contracts, and need to be prepared or reviewed by an experienced property lawyer. The principal of DMC Lawyers, Dean Claughton, has 10+ years experience in preparing, reviewing and negotiating Put & Call Option Deeds, so if you are a developer, or you have been approached by a developer to buy your property, please feel free to give us a call or send an email.