Nevgold Pty Ltd as trustee for the Brian Jorgensen Family Trust v Floyd

[2025] QCA 82

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Interrogate

Catchwords

1. Conveyancing
2. › The contract and conditions of sale
3. › Agent's commission
4. › Effective cause of sale
5. › Whether agent who introduced buyer under call option deed with nominee clause was effective cause of sale to nominee found by buyer's own agent
6. › Whether chain of causation broken by involvement of separate agent to find nominee
1. Appeal
2. › Leave to appeal
3. › District Court of Queensland Act 1967 (Qld), s 118
4. › Whether error to be corrected
5. › Whether leave should be granted

Quick Take

A real estate agent who introduces a buyer under a call option deed with a nominee clause remains the effective cause of sale where the property is ultimately sold to a nominee on the same terms, even where the original buyer engaged a separate agent to find the nominee.