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Buying or selling in Queensland? Get experienced local advice from qualified Queensland solicitors 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.
Queensland conveyancing by qualified solicitors
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PEXA-certified settlements
$1.4BN+ settled
The short answer
Conveyancing is the legal transfer of a property from one owner to another. In Queensland 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: $1,650 to buy and $1,500 to sell 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.
$1,650incl. GST
One professional fee, contract to settlement.
Included in your fixed fee
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$1,500incl. GST
One professional fee, listing to settlement.
Included in your fixed fee
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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, with home and first-home concessions. New builds have no cap from 1 May 2025; the first-home concession phases out by $800k.
Duty, no concession
~$20,025
On a
$600k home
Rate year
2026–27
Local · Queensland
Whichever side you’re on, these are the Queensland-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
The water risk changes as you move up the coast. Brisbane carries river and overland-flow flooding, the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast add storm-tide inundation along the beaches and canals, and from Townsville north you are in a cyclone region where how a house is built can bear on what an insurer will offer. We run the relevant council overlays and searches so the exposure is on the table before you commit.
Title
Community title is everywhere in Queensland, from townhouses in Brisbane to high-rise on the Gold Coast and units on the Sunshine Coast and in Cairns. We review the body corporate records, the levies, the sinking-fund balance, the by-laws and any special levies or defect history. On the coast we also read the letting and management-rights agreements, because a unit sitting in a letting pool is a business as much as a home.
Zoning
What you are allowed to do with a Queensland property varies by council. Pre-1947 homes across inner Brisbane sit under demolition-control and character overlays, the coastal councils apply coastal management planning along the beaches and canals, and a lot of low-lying coastal ground is mapped as acid sulfate soils, which affects what you can excavate or build. We check the overlays that apply before you plan a renovation or a knock-down.
Adjustments
Who bills you varies more in Queensland than most states. Brisbane City Council rates come with Urban Utilities water, the City of Gold Coast bills both itself, Unitywater covers the Sunshine Coast, and the Townsville and Cairns councils bill rates and water together. Water is often charged partly on what you use, so the reading taken around settlement matters. We confirm which authorities apply, get the adjustment right, and flag any unpaid charges that would otherwise follow the title.
Five business days from when you receive the signed contract, ending at 5pm on the fifth day. If you terminate during it, the seller can keep up to 0.25% of the purchase price. There is no cooling-off period if you buy at auction, or if you were a registered bidder at an auction and buy that property within two business days of it being passed in.
Zettle charges a fixed professional fee of $1,650 to buy and $1,500 to sell in Queensland 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 Queensland, settlement is typically 30 to 42 days from the contract date, though the exact period is negotiated in the contract. Your conveyancer manages the timeline through to settlement day.
If you are selling in Queensland you must give the buyer a seller disclosure statement, the Form 2, with the prescribed certificates attached before the contract is signed. It applies right across the state. Zettle prepares and reviews these as its own service, so we can handle your disclosure alongside the sale.
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