In NSW, leases must be registered with the Land Titles Office within three months of being signed. They are then publicly available
for a small fee over the counter in the Land Titles Office. This is a great
help for prospective tenants at major shopping centres who can see the true
rents being paid by shop owners, rather than the claims by the centre owners’
leasing agents. Somehow Westfield Bondi Junction, which opened 20 months ago, doesn’t
appear to have a single registered tenant judging by the fact that not
one lease was available for inspection at the Land Titles Office this
morning. How does Westfield manage to circumvent this regulation?