About this episode

Ciaran O’Brien and Peter O’Malley discuss the complexities of property deals in NSW, focusing on the transition from offers to binding contracts.

In this episode of Current Market Insights, Ciaran O’Brien and Peter O’Malley unpack the part of buying in NSW that most people think they understand, until it gets real. Offers are easy. Exchange is the moment it becomes binding. And the pathway you choose changes everything. They break it into the non binding world of verbal, letter, text, and email offers, versus the binding options where a contract is actually signed. Cooling off gets explained in plain English, including why it is...

People in this episode

Host: Ciaran O’Brien

Guest: Peter O’Malley

Topics covered

• property deals
• NSW real estate
• binding contracts
• offers
• cooling off period

Keywords

• NSW property
• real estate offers
• binding exchange
• cooling off period
• contract signing

Mentioned in this episode

Places: NSW

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