Overview

Understanding your industry

Few industries have endured the dramatic highs and lows quite like the Property Industry. The 1990’s perhaps represents the greatest period of industry change with:

the rise of the property trust sector
a myriad of planning decision disasters
QLD’s Urban Renewal Taskforce project
ACT’s private sector office market collapse, and of course
WA’s industrial boom.

More recently, the global credit crisis is causing significant anxiety and expected job losses. Add to this the disproportionate level of industry taxation, planning and land supply constraints, problematic development processes and growing sustainability and climate issues and you have a marketplace that is both dynamic and challenging.

How we can help

DibbsBarker continues to guide clients through both the highs and lows of the industry cycle, providing clarity on emerging issues and added traction on projects and developments.

Our commitment to the industry is best represented through our implementation of a dedicated National Property Industry Group. Offering strength in numbers, the Group comprises legal experts with a solid grounding in the industry providing advice across the gamut of property management and development, including:

acquisitions and disposals
construction
disputes & litigation
employee & industrial relations
funds management
leasing
planning and environment
property development
property finance.

Along with the industry we look forward to the next stage of the cycle and a return to a healthy property industry. In the interim however DibbsBarker will continue to guide clients through the developing issues, providing responsive, cost effective advice attuned to the changing market and our clients commercial imperatives.

Industry participation

Memberships

Property Council of Australia
Building Dispute Practitioners Society
Urban Development Institute of Australia – Legal Committee
Property Industry Foundation
NSW Property Committee of the Law Council of Australia.

Legal 500 Asia Pacific

"DibbsBarker's level of engagement is comparable to that of a first-tier law firm." For more information on how the DibbsBarker Property Group can help your busines, please contact Matthew Rollason.