Protecting your family tree
Land Owners Group acts for land owners. When a government authority or a large corporation moves to acquire your property, take an easement across it, or run infrastructure through it, we stand on your side of the negotiation.
The position you are in
Most land owners face it once. The authority or the company on the other side has a team, a timetable and a valuation of your property that you did not commission. You are entitled to have someone of your own in the room.
Parties seeking access to private land are required to comply with their legal obligations, to notify you, and for more advanced activities to negotiate a Conduct and Compensation Agreement with you. Those obligations exist for your benefit.
What is offered first is an offer, not a settlement. Our registered expert property valuers have been assessing compensation arising from corporate and government activity for many years.
The area taken is only part of it. Severed paddocks, moved fences, lost access, changed drainage and disrupted operations all bear on fair value, and all of it has to be identified before it can be claimed.
What we do
Valuation, engineering, spatial and negotiation expertise under one roof, pointed at a single question: what is fair, and how do we get you there.
Corporations and government authorities frequently need to acquire easements, and in some cases entire properties. Our valuers have been involved in several land and easement acquisition projects, and can help you secure fair value both for the area acquired and for consequential damages.
Our registered expert property valuers have undertaken compensation assessments of large multinational and government activity for many years. We can brief you on industry practice, the legislative framework and the relevant precedents that bear on your matter.
Where a company or authority needs access to your land, they must meet their legal obligations, notify you, and for more advanced activities negotiate a Conduct and Compensation Agreement. We have provided specialised expert consulting in this area for years.
We work with expert legal firms at the forefront of acting for landholders facing proposed land access, major government infrastructure and mining activity.
We refer. We are not a law firm and we do not provide legal advice.
Mapping, visualisation and data support, property plans and alignment plans, corridor and route selection, LIDAR and aerial imagery, land title and cadastral boundary searches.
Concept design and pre-feasibility studies, independent assessment of project impacts including flood, earthworks and drainage, civil design optimisation for road and rail, and assessment of fencing, occupational crossings and dams.
Projects
Mines, rail corridors, highways, pipelines and flood levees. In each of these, our clients were the people whose land was in the way.
Members of our firm were engaged as Construction Authority Land Agent for our clients, acting as the principal point of contact and ongoing liaison between the land owner and the authority. The project covered proposed mine, rail, roads, powerlines and water pipeline easements.
Coordination of contractors, logistics, onsite inspections and legals for land owners, ensuring affected owners had expert legal advice to protect their rights.
Coordination of contractors, logistics, onsite inspections and legals for land owners affected by the Gympie Bypass.
Our people
Our team is drawn predominantly from rural and regional locations throughout Australia, across a range of disciplines.
We have a reputation for a personal, respectful, proactive and no-nonsense approach to negotiations with large multinational corporations and government agencies. Put simply, we help you protect your family tree.
Our people come from rural backgrounds. That gives us the ability to understand the issues affecting your rural business, and to put them in language everyone at the table can follow.
We maintain close knowledge of the industries carried on across rural Australia, and have access to significant multi-industry networks that connect our clients to their region.
Talk to us
If you have received a notice, an offer, or a request to enter your property, call before you respond. We run an Australia-wide country mobile service.