A Sydney boutique builder has gone into liquidation owing creditors hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Built Lifestyles was a custom residential building and design company that operated for more than 15 years in Sydney.

The company went into voluntary liquidation on Monday and had it’s contractor license cancelled the following day.

Mohammad Najjar from Vanguard Insolvency was appointed liquidator estimating the company owed more than $300,000.

He told The Daily Telegraph the company ceased trading and did not have any construction work.

Mr Najjar said the company ceased trading and did not have any ongoing construction work.

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Founded by Bret Rietow and Tony Willcox, Apriority aims to revolutionize how Americans manage their personal debt—currently exceeding $18 trillion. The platform uses artificial intelligence to automatically identify refinancing opportunities, optimize payoff strategies, and reduce excess interest costs, helping borrowers regain control of their finances. Unlike…

A woman who murdered her neighbour over a gambling debt has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years.

Brenda Heslop, 63, stabbed 68-year-old John Hardy in the street in Elswick, Newcastle, in November last year.

Newcastle Crown Court heard Heslop, who suffers from serious mental health problems, told police she had not intended to kill Mr Hardy but wanted to scare him into repaying her £60.

Handing down a life sentence, Judge Bindloss said Heslop’s motivation for the murder was “misplaced anger and frustration and a desire to teach Mr Hardy a lesson”.

Joanna Seawright, 54, of Mavis Grove, Dumfries, and her sister Karen Mortimer, 67, of San Miguel de Abona, Tenerife, put the creditors of 138 companies at risk of financial loss after taking control of the businesses which were referred to them by Atherton Corporate UK (Ltd) and Atherton Corporate Rescue Limited.

The Atherton companies provided a corporate rescue scheme where directors of companies in financial distress were encouraged to sell their businesses as an alternative to formal insolvency…

Built Lifestyles was a custom residential building and design company that operated for more than 15 years in Sydney.

The company went into voluntary liquidation on Monday and had it’s contractor license cancelled the following day.

Mohammad Najjar from Vanguard Insolvency was appointed liquidator estimating the company owed more than $300,000.

He told The Daily Telegraph the company ceased trading and did not have any construction work.

Mr Najjar said the company ceased trading and did not have any ongoing construction work.

Australian Securities and Investments Commission data shows more than 3500 construction companies entered…

A court ordered insolvency proceedings for Tirumalla Agro Industries, a unit of India’s Kute Group, deepening the legal troubles facing the conglomerate whose founders are in jail over allegations they siphoned INR 2,467 crore from a cooperative lender.