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Buying or selling in Victoria? 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 Victoria 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 $2,000 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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$2,000incl. 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
Land transfer duty applies to buyers on a sliding scale. First-home buyers pay no duty up to $600,000 and get a concession to $750,000, off-the-plan purchases can be assessed on a lower dutiable value, and foreign buyers pay additional duty. Duty is generally paid at settlement.
Duty, no concession
~$31,070
On a
$600k home
Rate year
2026–27
Local · Victoria
Whichever side you’re on, these are the Victoria-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
Victoria maps bushfire risk in two ways that matter, and they are not the same thing: a designated bushfire-prone area brings construction requirements, while a bushfire management overlay also brings planning requirements. Both reach well beyond the Dandenongs, covering much of the fringe around Ballarat and Bendigo, the peri-urban edge and a good deal of regional Victoria. We identify which applies to the property and tell you when it needs a closer look before you commit.
Title
This is not only a Melbourne apartment question. It covers the apartment belt through Southbank, Docklands and the inner north, and just as often a villa unit or townhouse in Frankston, Geelong or Ballarat. We read the owners corporation certificate, the levies, the maintenance-fund balance, the rules and any special levy or repair history, so the real running costs are clear before you commit.
Zoning
Victoria protects a great deal of its nineteenth-century housing. Heritage overlays run through inner Melbourne suburbs like Fitzroy and Carlton, and across some of the most intact gold-era streetscapes in the country in Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong. Where one applies you generally need a planning permit for external changes, which can reach as far as windows, verandahs and fences. We check the overlay before you plan a renovation.
Adjustments
Which authority bills you depends on where you buy. Barwon Water covers Geelong, Coliban Water covers Bendigo, Central Highlands Water covers Ballarat, South East Water covers Frankston, and the Melbourne retailers cover the metropolitan area. Council rates and water are both apportioned at settlement, so we confirm the right authorities, get the adjustment right, and obtain the land information certificate before settlement rather than after.
Three clear business days, running from the date you sign the contract rather than the date the seller signs. If you withdraw during it, the seller keeps $100 or 0.2% of the purchase price, whichever is greater. It does not apply if you buy at a public auction, or within three clear business days before or after one, and a few other sales are excluded as well.
Zettle charges a fixed professional fee of $1,650 to buy and $2,000 to sell in Victoria 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 Victoria, settlement is commonly 30, 60 or 90 days from the contract date, with the exact period set in the contract. Your conveyancer manages the timeline through to settlement.
If you are selling in Victoria you must give the buyer a section 32 vendor statement before they sign. It sets out the title, the outgoings, any owners corporation, the planning and heritage overlays, and building permits from the last seven years. Zettle prepares it as part of the fixed fee when you are selling, and reads it closely for you when you are buying.
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