Minsol Group Blogs

Minsol Group team members, David Lambert and Ben Whitfield attended the Landholder Engagement Training hosted in Brisbane by The Energy Charter which included hearing from those impacted on the ground: farmers, landholders and communities. The 60+ participants included transmission, renewable developers, Ombudsman and government representatives from around Australia.   Topics covered The social licence context Setting the scene: Renewable energy development ...

Source: CoreLogic After more than two years of unabated increases in the price to build a new home or renovate, the pressure on construction costs has come off the boil, despite lingering volatility among individual material types. CoreLogic’s Cordell Construction Cost Index (CCCI), which tracks the cost to build a typical new home, returned a quarterly growth rate of 0.7% for the June quarter, the lowest rate since September 2020 and well below the 1.2% decade average. The quar...

Source:  Queensland Country Life Queensland landholders impacted by Inland Rail are at a major disadvantage compared to their interstate counterparts, according to a lawyer advising landholders along the proposed route. Adair Donaldson, Donaldson Law, Toowoomba, said while there was ongoing debate about the final route of the controversial project, what was not in dispute was that whatever route was chosen, landholders would be sacrificing their land and livelihoods for the benefit of ...

Source:  AVAA The first decision under recent Anti-Phoenixing Laws has been handed down. Victorian Supreme Court Associate Justice Gardiner observed that the case had “all the classic hallmarks of a phoenix transaction” before handing down his decision. It is his opinion that assets had been transferred below market value - or best available price at the time.
 
Introduced under the Treasury Laws Amendment (Combating Illegal Phoenixing) Act 2020 and takin...

Source: CBP - Insights There have been two recent important New South Wales (NSW) Court decisions in respect of native title in the context of the compulsory acquisition of land. The emergence of these types of claims will need to be assessed and dealt with by the Courts in the years ahead. In anticipation of an increase of these types of claims, the Valuer-General of NSW has released a draft paper on valuing cultural heritage land (Draft Paper) under the Land Acquisition (Jus...