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Buying or selling in New South Wales? Get experienced local advice and online support from contract to settlement, with your professional fee agreed before we start and other costs itemised separately. Buyers also get free contract reviews while they search.
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The short answer
Conveyancing is the legal transfer of a property from one owner to another. In New South Wales it covers reviewing the contract before you sign it, running the title and property searches, calculating the rates and duty adjustments, and settling the transaction electronically through PEXA.
Zettle does it for a fixed professional fee agreed before we start: $2,200 whether you are buying or selling, on a standard residential matter. Government charges and search costs are itemised separately, and anything falling outside that scope is agreed with you before we do the work.
Pricing
One fixed professional fee, agreed before you start, with no hourly billing. Government fees, transfer duty and searches are separate from our fee and passed on at cost.
$2,200incl. GST
One professional fee, contract to settlement.
Included in your fixed fee
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$2,200incl. GST
One professional fee, listing to settlement.
Included in your fixed fee
We'll send a full itemised quote to your inbox — no obligation.
Everything you need from contract to settlement. One fixed professional fee, with no hourly billing.
Government fees, transfer duty and property searches are additional and paid at cost.
Government charges
Transfer duty applies to buyers on a sliding scale. First-home buyers can get a full exemption or concession up to set thresholds, and foreign buyers pay surcharge purchaser duty. Duty is generally payable within three months of exchange.
Duty, no concession
~$21,187
On a
$600k home
Rate year
2026–27
Local · New South Wales
Whichever side you’re on, these are the New South Wales-specific checks worth running. What applies depends on the individual property, so we tell you what to look at and when something needs a closer look.
Risk
Ground and water risk runs the length of the state. The Hawkesbury-Nepean and the Georges River sit behind Sydney and the Tuggerah Lakes shape the Central Coast. Further out, much of the Hunter around Newcastle and parts of the Illawarra around Wollongong sit over old coal workings inside declared mine subsidence districts, where certain building work needs approval from Subsidence Advisory NSW on top of council's. Most of it shows on the section 10.7 planning certificate, and we read it closely before you exchange.
Title
Strata is not only a Sydney question. It covers the apartment density through the CBD, inner west and Parramatta, and just as much the beachside units at Wollongong and the harbour apartments in Newcastle. We read the strata report: the capital-works fund, the levies, the by-laws and the minutes for defect, cladding or dispute history. In a block facing major rectification, the levy that funds it is the single biggest number in your ownership.
Zoning
A great deal of New South Wales housing sits inside a heritage conservation area, from the inner west and eastern suburbs of Sydney to Cooks Hill and The Hill in Newcastle and the older streets of Wollongong. Where one applies it limits alterations and demolition, often further than people expect. It shows on the section 10.7 planning certificate, and we go through it with you before you draw up plans rather than after.
Adjustments
The water authority depends on where you buy. Sydney Water covers Sydney, Parramatta and Wollongong, Hunter Water covers Newcastle, and on the Central Coast the council supplies the water itself. Council rates and water are both apportioned at settlement, so we confirm the right authority, get the adjustment right, and flag any arrears or unpaid charges that would otherwise follow the title.
Five business days after contracts are exchanged, ending at 5pm on the fifth day. Off-the-plan purchases get a longer period of 10 business days. If you withdraw during it you forfeit 0.25% of the purchase price. There is no cooling-off period if you buy at auction, if you exchange on the same day the property is passed in at auction, or if you give the seller a section 66W certificate waiving it.
Zettle charges a fixed professional fee of $2,200 whether you are buying or selling in New South Wales, on a standard residential matter. Transfer duty, government charges and search costs are separate and itemised in your quote, and anything falling outside that scope is agreed with you before we do the work.
In New South Wales, settlement is typically around 42 days (six weeks) from exchange, though the exact period is set in the contract. Your conveyancer manages the timeline through to completion.
Your contract for sale, prepared with the title documents and the planning certificate attached, so your agent can market the property. Zettle drafts it as part of the fixed fee, then handles the buyer's enquiries, the exchange and settlement.
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