Re: Look out! They’re going to tax your view

There are a couple of notorious cases – one in Chinatown, the other in North Sydney –  where people were persuaded to buy into apartment blocks on the promise that the view could never be built out because the developer owned the site in front of them

Needless to say, almost as soon as the buildings were completed, plans were proposed to fill in the gap in front.  Even though in once case the apartment owners had been shown 3D models that indicated the empty space in front of them, and brochures promised the view would not be build out, courts decided that these were not contracts per se and therefore there was no comeback on the developer.