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Letter of response to purchaser’s solicitor acknowledging rescission and claiming part of deposit equal to 0.25 percent of the purchase price

Letter of response to purchaser’s solicitor acknowledging rescission and claiming part of deposit equal to 0.25 percent of the purchase price

Regular price $44.00

This precedent is a letter used when acting for a vendor in a conveyancing matter to respond to the purchaser’s representative after they have served a notice of rescission on the vendor. This precedent provides for a claim to a part of the deposit equal to 0.25% of the purchase price.

Section 66U of the Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW) provides for rescission of a contract during the cooling off period. Section 66U requires the notice to be signed by:

·                the purchaser or their solicitor; or

·                if there is more than one purchaser, each of the purchasers or their respective solicitors.

The section also requires that the notice must be served on:

·                the vendor or their solicitor;

·                if there is more than one vendor, any one of the vendors or any of their solicitors; or

the agent of the vendor or vendors.

This precedent has been authored for LexisNexis by Emma Heuston, Principal Lawyer, LegalVision.

This document is part of a LexisNexis suite of Real Property Law precedents prepared with the assistance of General Editor Christopher Conolly, Partner, TressCox Lawyers and Specialist Editor, Peter Rosier, Principal, Rosier Partners Lawyers.