Conveyancing in Queensland
We Service QLD. All of It.
We regularly service the following areas.
Brisbane Metro
- Brisbane
- Fortitude Valley
- Chermside
- Carindale
- Indooroopilly
- Mount Gravatt
Moreton Bay and Brisbane North
- Redcliffe
- Caboolture
- North Lakes
- Strathpine
- Morayfield
Ipswich, Logan and the Redlands
- Ipswich
- Logan
- Springfield
- Beenleigh
- Cleveland
Gold Coast
- Southport
- Surfers Paradise
- Robina
- Burleigh Heads
- Coolangatta
Sunshine Coast
- Maroochydore
- Noosa
- Caloundra
- Buderim
- Nambour
Toowoomba and the Darling Downs
- Toowoomba
- Warwick
- Dalby
- Gatton
Central Queensland and Wide Bay
- Rockhampton
- Gladstone
- Mackay
- Bundaberg
- Hervey Bay
- Maryborough
North and Far North Queensland
- Townsville
- Cairns
- Port Douglas
- Mount Isa
Buying or Selling in Queensland? Start With the Disclosure Statement.
Buying or selling property in Queensland runs on a document most people meet for the first time with a pen in their hand. The seller disclosure statement arrives before the contract, comes with a bundle of certificates, and decides what you know about the property before you commit to it. The cooling-off clock then runs for five business days, and not a day more.
Titlespace is an Australian law firm. We handle conveyancing for buyers, sellers and transfers across Queensland on a fixed fee, from the disclosure review through to settlement. That matters more here than in most states: in Queensland only a solicitor can do your conveyancing, and ours is fully digital, which is how settlement has worked in Queensland since electronic lodgement became mandatory in 2023.
This page covers what Queensland actually requires of you, in plain English. If you would rather just talk to someone, the quote tool takes about a minute.
Why Queensland buyers and sellers work with us
- One fixed fee, quoted before you engage us, with searches and disbursements itemised.
- Disclosure statement and contract review before you sign, with a plain-English summary of what you are agreeing to.
- Fully digital from first call to PEXA settlement. No office visits, no paper, wherever in Queensland the property is.
- A law firm, which in Queensland is the only kind of practice allowed to do your conveyancing.
- 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. If you are not happy with our services, we will reimburse your legal fees.
Which One Are You?
The Queensland rules land differently depending on which side of the deal you are on. Start here, then jump to your section below.
1 I am buying ▾
The seller has to tell you a lot before you sign. You still have to read it, and the clock still runs.
- Read the seller disclosure statement and every certificate before you sign
- Know your cooling-off position: five business days, none at auction
- Insure the property from the day you sign, because the risk is yours from the next business day
- Budget transfer duty, and check the first home concession thresholds
2 I am selling ▾
The disclosure statement has to exist before a buyer can sign, so it is the first job, not the last.
- Form 2 disclosure statement prepared with every prescribed certificate
- Body corporate certificate ordered early for a unit or townhouse
- Pool safety and smoke alarm compliance sorted before the campaign
- ATO clearance certificate, needed on every sale at any price
3 I am transferring ▾
Adding a name, removing one, or moving property within a family.
- Duty is assessed on market value, even when nothing is paid
- The spouse and de facto exemption covers your home, in equal shares, not an investment property
- Your lender dealt with if there is a mortgage on the title
- The capital gains consequences understood before, not after
We built digital from day one
NO STRESS CONVEYANCING IN QUEENSLAND
Titlespace kicked off in 2019, built digital from day one, and now brings the same paper-free conveyancing to Brisbane and every corner of Queensland.
We are here to clean up the whole property dance, buying, selling or transferring, with conveyancing built for the way Queenslanders actually live. You get a smooth, digital workflow that keeps you clear on every next move.
Say goodbye to racing across town to sign a single page. Use our secure contract tech from a West End cafe with your iced long black, your Eagle Street office or your deck in Cairns.
Do not let old-school nonsense stall your property plans. Keep it calm, clever and handled by the boldest conveyancing lawyers in Queensland (that is us).
What we take off your plate
Whether it is your first transaction or your fifteenth, here is what our Queensland team handles.
Buying in Queensland. Read the Disclosure. Watch the Clock.
Four things catch Queensland buyers: what the seller disclosure statement does and does not tell you, how short cooling off really is, who carries the risk between contract and settlement, and what you pay the state on top of the price.
The seller disclosure statement, and how short cooling off really is
A seller disclosure statement is the document a Queensland seller must give a buyer before the buyer signs a contract. It is required under the Property Law Act 2023 for contracts entered into on or after 1 August 2025, it is in an approved form (Form 2), and it comes with a set of prescribed certificates.
The bundle covers the title search and registered plan, the body corporate certificate for a unit or townhouse, any contaminated land or environmental notices, notices under the building, planning and QBCC laws, tree orders, the pool safety certificate or the notice that there is none, and transport infrastructure or heritage notices. Rates and water notices are disclosed in the form itself. At auction it has to be given before the hammer falls.
What it does not contain matters just as much. The seller does not have to tell you about the structural condition of the building, flooding history, or past building and development approvals. There is no building and pest report in the bundle. Read the statement with the contract, not instead of an inspection.
If the seller did not give you the statement before you signed, or it was inaccurate or incomplete about something material that you did not know and would have changed your mind, you may be able to terminate the contract at any time before settlement and have your deposit back within 14 days. Where a prescribed certificate is missing altogether, the materiality test does not apply. There is no right to damages, which is why the review happens before you sign, not after.
Cooling off in Queensland
- Cooling off period
- 5 business days
- When it starts
- The day you receive a copy of the contract signed by both parties
- When it ends
- 5pm on the fifth business day
- How you exercise it
- Written notice to the seller or the agent
- What it costs
- Up to 0.25% of the price, deducted from your deposit
- At auction
- None
- Contract formed by 5pm on the second clear business day after an auction, with a registered bidder
- None
- Buying three or more lots at once, listed companies, the State, option contracts
- None
- Can you waive or shorten it
- Yes, by written notice to the seller or agent
5 days
0.25%
None
Two things people get wrong
Cooling off is your time to get the building and pest report and the finance answer if the contract does not already make them conditions, and five business days is not long for either. And you do not need a solicitor’s certificate to waive it any more; that requirement went with the old PAMDA forms in 2014. A seller or agent who asks for one is working from an old script.
Transfer duty, and the concessions that matter
Stamp duty in Queensland is called transfer duty and is collected by the Queensland Revenue Office. Your solicitor, as a registered self assessor, calculates it and stamps the transfer so settlement can proceed, and in almost every case it is paid through PEXA at settlement. What you pay depends on the price and on who you are.
If it is your first home
You must move in within one year and keep living there. Since September 2024 you can rent out a room once you have moved in without losing the concession. Vacant land: build and move in within two years.
Everyone else
The home concession needs you to move in within one year. From 1 August 2026 the home, first home and first home vacant land concessions are limited to Australian citizens, permanent residents and specified foreign retirees.
There is no Queensland equivalent of the NSW first home buyer choice. Duty is duty, and the first home concession turns on the price, on never having owned a home before, and on moving in within a year and staying. The QRO calculator gives you the figure for your price; we confirm your eligibility before you sign. The First Home Owner Grant, a separate $30,000 for new homes, stays at that level for contracts from 1 July 2026.
Selling in Queensland. Disclose First, List Second.
One rule shapes selling in Queensland: the disclosure statement and its certificates have to be in the buyer’s hands before they sign, so the paperwork starts before the campaign does.
What goes into your Form 2
The Property Law Act 2023 and its Regulation list what a seller has to disclose. Miss a certificate and the buyer may be able to walk away at any time before settlement.
Pools, smoke alarms, auctions and the contract
Three things the buyer’s side will check before settlement, and two rules that shape how you sell.
Auctions and deposits
Queensland auctions are unconditional. A bidder registers, bids without finance or building and pest conditions, has no cooling off, and signs and pays the deposit on the day. Vendor bids are allowed below the reserve and must be announced. The deposit is a matter for the contract, but ask for more than ten per cent (twenty for an off-the-plan lot) and the contract becomes an instalment contract, which changes your rights if the buyer defaults.
The contract
The contract is the REIQ and Queensland Law Society Contract for Sale and Purchase of Residential Real Estate (1st edition), which replaced the older Houses and Residential Land and Community Titles Scheme contracts for sales from 1 August 2025. It carries body corporate warranties and a records inspection condition, alongside the finance, building and pest and settlement extension clauses.
Transferring in Queensland. No Sale, Same Rules.
Adding a partner, taking an ex off the title, moving a property within the family. No money changes hands, and the Queensland Revenue Office still wants its duty on the market value unless an exemption fits.
Transferring property without a sale
The Duties Act 2001 assesses a gift or a nil-consideration transfer on the market value of the property, and the Queensland Revenue Office will want a valuation rather than your own estimate. The exemptions are narrower than people expect.
What common transfers cost
- Partner onto your home as a gift, ending in equal shares
- No duty
- Partner onto or off an investment property
- Full duty on market value
- After a separation, under Family Law orders or a binding financial agreement
- No duty
- Parent to child
- Full duty on market value, valuation required
- Beneficiary under a will, in line with the will
- No duty
Putting your partner on the title
Queensland exempts a gift of an interest in your home to your spouse or de facto partner (two years or more together, civil partners included) under section 151 of the Duties Act 2001, provided the property is your principal place of residence and afterwards you hold it as joint tenants or as tenants in common in equal shares. Unequal shares, or an investment property, and it is dutiable at market value like any other gift.
Separating
Transfers that give effect to Family Court orders or a binding financial agreement under the Family Law Act are exempt, provided the order or agreement predates the transfer and names the property and the person receiving it. A transfer of the home to a former spouse after divorce under a matrimonial instrument is also exempt. Unlike the spouse exemption, these are not limited to equal shares.
Four other things that bite
Whether your particular agreement satisfies the Commissioner, whether a home you also work from counts, and what a transfer will cost you in capital gains tax all turn on your own facts. We work those out on your matter, not on a web page. How property transfers work, in more detail.
Buyer or Seller. This Part Is for Both.
Settlement, who can act for you, and what goes wrong most, whether you are buying, selling or transferring.
Settlement, and what happens on the day
Queensland contracts set their own settlement date, and 30 days is the market norm. Time is of the essence: miss a date and you are in breach.
- 1Contract signedDeposit paid to the agent’s or solicitor’s trust account. Insure from today.
- 2Cooling offFive business days from the day you receive the fully signed contract, ending 5pm on day five, unless you bought at auction or an exception applies.
Day 1 to 5 - 3Finance and building and pest datesStrict. If the answer is not in by the date in the contract, you need a written extension before it passes, not after.
Usually day 14 to 21 - 4Searches, duty and adjustmentsRates, water and body corporate levies are adjusted to the day of settlement; your solicitor assesses transfer duty as a self assessor.
- 5Final inspectionDo it in the week before, so you see the property in the condition you are about to own it.
- 6Settlement in PEXAFunds, duty and the transfer move electronically and the agent releases the keys.
Day 30, or the date in the contract
If settlement day arrives and one side is not ready, the standard contract lets either party extend by notice, once or more, up to five business days in total, provided the notice is given before 4pm on the scheduled date. If the PEXA workspace is unsigned late in the day, the contract rolls to the next business day. Those are contract terms, not the Act. The Act adds that a settlement falling on a non-business day moves to the next one, that time stops running while the registry, PEXA or a bank’s systems are down, and that a buyer may rescind if the dwelling is damaged so badly before settlement that it is unfit to live in and the seller does not fix it.
Queensland has been an electronic conveyancing state since 20 February 2023, when Titles Queensland made electronic lodgement mandatory for transfers, mortgage releases, caveats and priority notices. Settlement runs through PEXA or Sympli. Nobody meets in a room with cheques.
Who can act for you in Queensland
In Queensland the answer is shorter than in any other state: only a solicitor can do your conveyancing.
Solicitor
Regulated by the Queensland Law Society and the Legal Services Commission. Section 24 of the Legal Profession Act 2007 makes it an offence for anyone who is not an Australian legal practitioner to engage in legal practice, and conveyancing is legal practice.
- Buying, selling and transferring property
- Disclosure statement and contract review and negotiation
- Settlement in PEXA
- Disputes, caveats and court
- Estates and family law transfers
Licensed conveyancer
Does not exist in Queensland. NSW and Victoria license conveyancers as a separate profession; Queensland never has.
- Cannot run a Queensland conveyance in their own right
- An interstate conveyancing licence does not carry into Queensland
- A “conveyancer” at a Queensland firm is a paralegal working under a supervising solicitor, who is responsible for your file
Conveyancer or solicitor in the other states, in more detail.
What we see go wrong in Queensland
Four things, de-identified, that we see more often in Queensland than anywhere else.
Ready to Get Moving? So Are We.
You do not need to understand the Property Law Act to buy or sell a home in Queensland. You need someone who does, who answers the phone, and who tells you what things mean before you have to decide.
Reviewed by Marc Ryckmans, Legal Practitioner Director, September 2026. Last updated September 2026. This page is general information about conveyancing in Queensland. It is not legal advice about your transaction.
Sources: Property Law Act 2023 (Qld) sections 77 to 81 and 95 to 107; Property Law Regulation 2024 (Qld) section 5; Property Occupations Act 2014 (Qld) sections 160 to 169; Duties Act 2001 (Qld) sections 124, 151 and 424 and Chapter 4; Legal Profession Act 2007 (Qld) section 24; Land Title Act 1994 (Qld) and Land Title Regulation 2022; Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (Qld) section 205; Queensland Revenue Office; Titles Queensland; Queensland Law Society; Legal Services Commission; Queensland Building and Construction Commission; Queensland Fire Department; Australian Taxation Office.
FAQS THAT WE GET. A LOT.
What is the average cost of conveyancing in QLD?
Titlespace charges a fixed fee, quoted before you engage us, and the amount depends on whether you are buying, selling or transferring and on the property. Queensland quotes vary widely and often exclude searches, the body corporate certificate fee and the disclosure bundle, so compare what is included, not the headline number. We do not publish a rate card here because the honest answer depends on your property; the quote tool takes a minute, and our guide to conveyancing fees explains what sits behind the number.
Can I do my own conveyancing in QLD?
For your own property, the Legal Profession Act does not stop you acting for yourself. Practically, Queensland is an electronic conveyancing state and settlements run through PEXA, which is open to subscribing practitioners rather than to individuals, so a private buyer or seller cannot settle in the workspace without a practitioner. Preparing a Form 2 disclosure bundle yourself also means carrying the termination risk if you get it wrong.
Is it better to use a solicitor or a conveyancer in QLD?
In Queensland the question does not arise the way it does in NSW or Victoria. There are no licensed conveyancers here; conveyancing is legal practice and only a solicitor can do it. Someone described as a conveyancer in Queensland is a paralegal working under a solicitor. Titlespace is a law firm, so your matter is run by a legal team from the start.
What is a seller disclosure statement in QLD?
It is the Form 2 statement, with prescribed certificates attached, that a Queensland seller must give a buyer before the buyer signs a contract, under the Property Law Act 2023 (contracts from 1 August 2025). It covers title, body corporate, contamination, building and planning notices, tree orders, pool safety and rates, but not the building’s condition or flooding history. If it is not given, or a certificate is missing or materially wrong, the buyer may be able to terminate before settlement.
How long is the cooling off period in QLD?
Five business days, starting the day you receive a copy of the contract signed by both parties and ending at 5pm on the fifth business day. There is none at auction, none for a registered bidder who contracts within two clear business days after the auction, and none where you buy three or more lots at once. Walking away costs up to 0.25 per cent of the price, taken from your deposit, with the rest refunded within 14 days.
What are the risks of not using a conveyancing solicitor?
Signing without a disclosure review, missing the cooling-off or finance deadline in a contract where time is of the essence, carrying the property uninsured from the day after contract, miscalculating duty or the first home concession, a body corporate certificate that arrived after the buyer signed, and settlement failing because the PEXA workspace was not ready. Most of them are cheap to prevent and expensive to fix.
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