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Title: Home building and renovating - Office of Fair Trading webpage
About: Information for home owners, builders and tradespeople, licence checks.
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Title: Mortgage Assistance Scheme
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Title: Tenants and homeowners - Office of Fair Trading - tenants and landlords, buying and selling, strata, agents and managers, parks and villages, licence check.
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Title: Share housing survival guide, 2nd edition
About: Looking for a place to rent, the difference between a co-tenant, a sub-tenant, a boarder and a lodger; bonds, share household responsibilities, moving out or being evicted by your housemates, and when your housemates move out.
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Title: Shelter - Hot Topics series no 57
About: Legal aspects of housing, and direct and indirect regulation by governments; social housing, residential parks, rental properties, home ownership, and homelessness.
Author: Martin, Chris
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Books in public libraries

Title: Housing Chapter 29: The law handbook 11th edition
About: Covers renting and tenancy agreements, rights of landlord and tenant, bonds, protected tenancies, the Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal, shared housing, public housing, appeals, buying a home, entering into a contract, strata schemes, rates, rates, squatters.
Where: Check your public library.
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Title: Share housing survival guide, 2nd edition
About: Looking for a place to rent, the difference between a co-tenant, a sub-tenant, a boarder and a lodger; bonds, share household responsibilities, moving out or being evicted by your housemates, and when your housemates move out.
Where: Check your public library.
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Title: Environment Chapter 25: The law handbook 11th edition
About: Covers planning controls such as environmental planning instruments, including regional environmental plans (REPs), local environmental plans (LEPs), development consent, threatened species legislation, building approvals, heritage protection, national parks and wildlife, pollution, offences.
Where: Check your public library.
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A Tool Kit title

Title: Shelter - Hot Topics series no 57
About: Legal aspects of housing, and direct and indirect regulation by governments; social housing, residential parks, rental properties, home ownership, and homelessness.
Author: Martin, Chris
Where: Check your public library.
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Title: Land law 5th ed
About: Sources of land law in New South Wales, types of land ownership including old system title and Torrens title, leases, easements, covenants, mortgages, Crown land and native title.
Author: Butt, Peter
Where: Check your public library.
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Lawyers' Tools

Title: Conveyancing manual New South Wales
About: Practical guide to the procedural side of conveyancing - completing the standard contract, titles to land held at the Dept of Lands, exchange of contracts, inquiries to be made, requisitions and rescission, stamp duty and transfer. Types of ownership, joint ownership, foreign ownership, easements and covenants, capital gains tax, leases and mortgages, environmental matters, remedies, precedents and checklists. Location number Ref/NQ346.9440438/62
Author: Frazer, Sally
Where: Available from the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW
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Title: Conveyancing service New South Wales
About: Covers the sale of land, contract for sale of land, types of land ownership such as old system, possessory title, tenancy in common and joint tenancy, company title, strata title. Covers the Real Property Act, covenants and easements, crown land, the Torrens system, mortgages, leases, Land Titles Office practice, remedies. Location number Ref/NQ346.9440438/17
Where: Available from the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW
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Title: Estate agents practice manual
About: Includes information on property management, tenancy, conveyancing and sale of property, licensing and employment of agents, trust accounting and business accounting. Includes some standard forms used in estate agency management. Location number Ref/N333.3309944/5
Author: Scott, Chris
Where: Available from the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW
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Title: Lang's commercial leases
About: Covers the drafting and negotiating of commercial leases, transactions, lease covenants, retail leases. Location number Ref/NQ346.9404346/11
Where: Available from the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW
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Title: New South Wales conveyancing law and practice
About: Covers the land Titles Office practice, formation of contracts, deeds, other matters in the transfer of land. Includes discussion of types of ownership such as old system, Torrens title, strata, Crown land, resumption of land, gifts and trusts, joint ownership, remedies, leases, mortgages, easements and covenants. Includes land related legislation. Location number Ref/N346.9440438/4
Where: Available from the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW
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