by AlexanderDorrington | Mar 29, 2010 | Subdivisions
What a Court considers a reasonable time for completion of a subdivision might be longer than you think! For example, it might be perfectly reasonable for a developer to defer applying for a resource consent until zoning issues are resolved. Making time of the...
by AlexanderDorrington | Mar 29, 2010 | Subdivisions
In October last year the promised streamlining of the Resource Management Act came into effect. Perhaps all of the property developers had already gone to ground, or perhaps it was because the need for change had been so long in the coming that the fanfare wasn’t...
by AlexanderDorrington | Mar 29, 2010 | Subdivisions, Unit Titles
The Unit Titles Bill is slowly working its way through. Hopefully we see a new Unit Titles Act this year because it is definitely needed. The second reading of the bill was completed on 16 February 2010. The bill now goes to the Committee of the Whole House. We will...
by AlexanderDorrington | Mar 29, 2010 | Sale and Purchase
Independent trustees are no doubt very aware that contracts they enter into with third parties expose them to personal liability, unless there is a clause in the contract limiting their liability. Trustees who regularly use the standard (ADLS/REINZ) form of agreement...
by AlexanderDorrington | Mar 29, 2010 | Building
The 2009 amendment to the Building Act is (in the most part) now in force. It introduces a new regime “national multi-use approvals” (or MultiProof as the Department of Building and Housing are branding it). This is to enable volume builders of simple buildings to...
