Australian Lawyer - Director, Lawyers Real Estate Pty Ltd
Melbourne Area, Australia
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- Director at Lawyers Real Estate
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- Leo Cussen Institute
- Monash University
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Peter Mericka’s Summary
• Consumer advocate and lawyer. Focus on protection of real estate consumers of residential real estate services, providing low-cost comprehensive real estate sale services.
• Australia's first "Real Estate Lawyer", having introduced the concept in 2002, and developing it with a view to expanding the role of the lawyer as vendor and buyer advocate.
• Application of criminal legal concepts to procedures and processes regarded as "standard" in the real estate industry, identifying latent criminal conduct. The strategy of "dummy bidding", so long condoned by property lawyers and real estate institutes was identified as a breach of Section 82 of the Crimes Act long before recent changes to legislation. Similarly, "private auctions", "Dutch auctions", and other price manipulation strategies have been exposed as illegal.
• Strong interest in the development of "blue ocean" strategies for expanding the role of the lawyer into areas lost to other professions, and legal services currently dominated by non-lawyers.
Peter Mericka’s Specialties:
• Real estate sales
• Real estate ethics
• Real estate negotiation
• Real estate contracts
• Real estate conveyancing
• Real estate legal advice
• Property law – general
• Criminal law - general
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Peter Mericka’s Honors:
Legal Best Practice LAW 9000
