Conveyancing Gold Coast
Conveyancing handled by property lawyers, from contract to keys
Buying or selling on the Gold Coast? We check your contract and the seller’s disclosure, manage every deadline and settle for you, with a written quote before we start.
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What we do for you
Most residential purchases and sales settle 4–6 weeks after the contract is signed. These are the things we look after on each side.
Buying a property
- Review the contract and the seller’s disclosure before you sign
- Explain cooling-off and set up your finance and building and pest conditions
- Order searches and check the title, rates and anything registered on the property
- Work out your transfer duty and any concession you’re eligible for
- Track every deadline and keep you, your broker and the agent up to date
- Settle, register the transfer and tell you when the keys are yours
Selling a property
- Prepare your seller disclosure statement and certificates before a buyer signs
- Work with your agent on the contract and any special conditions
- Get your ATO clearance certificate, so 15% of the price isn’t withheld at settlement
- Manage the buyer’s finance and building and pest deadlines
- Arrange the release of your mortgage with your bank
- Settle, adjust the rates and water, and pay the sale proceeds to you
Buying off the plan, or a commercial property? We act on those too. See all property services
Property Law Act 2023
Seller disclosure: what changed on 1 August 2025
Queensland sellers must now give buyers a disclosure statement and prescribed certificates before the buyer signs. If they are missing or materially wrong, the buyer may be able to end the contract before settlement.
What a seller must give the buyer
- A seller disclosure statement (Form 2)
- A current title search and the registered plan
- For units and townhouses, a body corporate certificate
- Any other certificate that applies, such as for a pool
- Selling
- We prepare your statement and gather the certificates, so they’re complete before your agent goes to market.
- Buying
- We check the disclosure against the contract and flag anything missing or wrong before you sign.
Get your disclosure statement prepared Our Property Law Act 2023 guide
What conveyancing costs
We give you a written quote before we start, so you know what you’ll pay. A conveyancing quote has four parts.
- Our professional feeQuoted before we start
- Our work from the contract review to settlement. It depends on whether you’re buying or selling, and on the property.
- SearchesAt cost
- Title, council, water and other searches, itemised in your quote.
- Government feesPaid at settlement
- Titles Queensland fees to register the transfer and any new mortgage.
- Transfer dutyBuyers only
- Paid to the Queensland Revenue Office. We calculate it and apply any home or first-home concession you’re eligible for.
How conveyancing works in Queensland
From the day you sign to the day you get the keys usually takes 4–6 weeks. Here is what happens, and what we do at each step.
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Before you sign
Contract review
We review the contract and the seller’s disclosure, flag risks and suggest conditions.
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First 5 business days
Cooling-off
Most residential buyers can still withdraw, for up to 0.25% of the price. We diarise every condition date.
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Weeks 1–3
Searches and conditions
We run your searches and track finance and building and pest until the contract is unconditional.
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The week before
Settlement figures
We prepare the settlement statement and adjustments, and coordinate with the banks.
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Settlement day
Settlement
We settle electronically through PEXA, lodge the transfer and let you know when the keys are ready.
Simon Bennett Partner, QLS Accredited Specialist (Property Law)Who handles your conveyancing
Your matter is run by our property team, led by Simon Bennett, a Queensland Law Society Accredited Specialist in Property Law. Associate Erlinda Nunn looks after conveyancing and off-the-plan purchases.
Associate, conveyancing and off-the-plan
What our clients say
Conveyancing FAQs
Answers to the questions buyers and sellers ask us most.
Popular guides
It depends on whether you’re buying or selling, and on the property. We give you a written quote before we start, covering our fee, searches and government fees. See our guide to conveyancing costs.
Usually 4–6 weeks from contract to settlement. The settlement date is set in the contract, so it can be shorter or longer if both sides agree. Off-the-plan purchases settle once the building is finished and the plan is registered.
Queensland has no separate conveyancer licence, so paid conveyancing here is done by solicitors or staff they supervise. At OMB, a property lawyer runs your matter, in a team led by an Accredited Specialist.
Yes, if you can. Once both parties sign, the contract binds you. We can review it and the seller’s disclosure first, and suggest conditions to protect you.
Yes. Send us the signed contract as soon as you can and we’ll diarise every date straight away, starting with the end of the cooling-off period.
Five business days for most residential contracts. If you end the contract in that time, the seller can keep up to 0.25% of the price. There is no cooling-off at auction. Read our cooling-off guide.
Since 1 August 2025, sellers must give buyers a disclosure statement and certificates, such as a title search and the registered plan, before the buyer signs. If they are not given, the buyer can end the contract before settlement.
Settlement happens online through PEXA, the national e-settlement platform. The banks and both sides’ lawyers exchange funds and documents, the transfer is lodged with Titles Queensland, and the agent releases the keys.
Yes. Most of the process happens online, and many documents can be signed electronically. If you’re a foreign buyer, you’ll pay extra transfer duty, and you generally can’t buy an established home until 30 June 2029.
