27 January 2017

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Sale, Purchase, Mortgage, Lease
Victoria

Asked

Dear Mentor,

We find that a lot of agents email copies of executed sale contracts to our office and do not provide the original of the executed document. Is a copy of the executed sale contract sufficiently enforceable or should the original document be required?

Thank you for any comments you can offer.

Kind regards.

Answered

Thanks for the question.

Whilst it would always be preferable to have the original signed copy, there seems little doubt that, in this day and age, proving a contract by printing a scanned copy would suffice.

Regards,

Mentor