Hi, I just signed up to this forum and have lots of reading/research to do through all these threads. We have recently relocated from Paynesville to Cheltenham in Victoria. I have been walking past a house that looks either vacant or poorly tenanted. How would I go about contacting/approaching the owner to enquire about purchasing the property (privately preferably) I'm assuming the local shire would be no help due to privacy laws? Any ideas, I have really fallen for this little cutie!! Thank you Maree
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I get letters from time to time from people wanting to purchase a property i own – they get my details from the local council, as do the real estate agents who send letters chasing listings – in WA, might be different in Vic. Good luckthanks for the thoughts, I will try the local council then. Want to avoid agents if I can. Cheers
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there are number of resources available for this, however a Australian High Court ruling a couple of weeks back states that these services can not provide owners information (could give you the full details but that's about the long and the short of it). the main resource are rpdata, pds solution, you can go to council or the titles office.hope this helps
I'd recommend a subscription service like RP Data, Residex etc. Alternatively, you may have to go to one of the online providers (after working out the lot & dp) and getting a title seach done through Legallink & others (emailed to your PC). Then, you will have some leg work to do – white pages, ASIC etc to find business address/directors, Water Board etc.
Thanks so much for the reply's. Tried the local shire but they wouldn't devulge the information as suspected. I have a friend who is a real estate agent & another who is a conveyancer – could they access this information? Or would they incur a fee as I would? Thanks agaiin Maree
For $10 you can do an online title search….or your conveyancer can do it for you.
Oh ok sr.prop $10 is great will google Scott no mates suggestions. Walking past this morning the property is actually occupied, so fingers xed it is the tenants not the owner who is living there. I'm assuming tenants as there is a heap of cars and no house proudness.
A title search will tell you the owner, but not their contact details. But this may lead you to a copy of the transfer and that sometime has useful information such as the soliciitor they used – who may pass on a letter. For that matter, you may want to just try sending a letter to the house address to the owner, and they may have mail forwarding set up.
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