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Get your contract checked free, before you sign.
A Queensland law firm reads the contract and the seller’s Form 2, flags what could cost you, and calls you to talk it through. Free, whether or not you buy through us.
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A 10% deposit on a $700,000 home is $70,000. You get five business days to cool off, and none at auction. Find the problem before you sign.
What to fix, in plain English. Then a call.Contract review for buyers in Queensland
- 1Every page of the contract and the seller’s Form 2, checked against 13 points.
- 2What to fix before you sign, and exactly what to ask the agent to change.
- 3A call from your conveyancer to talk it through, the same business day.
The fine print that costs buyers. Found before you sign.What to check in a Queensland property contract
A finance date that is too short
If your loan isn’t approved in time, you can be locked in or lose your deposit.
No building and pest condition
Without one, a bad report gives you no right to walk away.
Special conditions that favour the seller
Extra clauses added by the seller or agent, read line by line.
A missing or wrong Form 2
It can give you the right to end the contract. We check every certificate.
Body corporate surprises
Special levies, disputes and planned works, before they become yours.
A settlement date your lender can’t meet
We line the dates up with your bank before you commit.
The review is free. Then one fixed fee.Conveyancing cost for buyers in Queensland
Elsewhere, a contract review on its own can cost $399. Ours is free. If you buy through us, your fee is fixed and searches are itemised before you commit.
House or land
Review free- Free contract review before you sign
- Seller’s Form 2 and certificates checked
- Cooling-off, finance and building dates managed
- Title and property searches ordered
- Transfer and duty return prepared
- Rates and water adjustments calculated
- Electronic settlement through PEXA
- Your own conveyancer to text or call
Unit or townhouse
Review free- Free contract review before you sign
- Body corporate records review
- Seller’s Form 2 and Form 33 checked
- Cooling-off, finance and building dates managed
- Transfer and duty return prepared
- Levy and rates adjustments calculated
- Electronic settlement through PEXA
- Your own conveyancer to text or call
Several titles, a business or a commercial property? Call 0483 980 001 for a quote.
More money stays in your pocket.
Order your seller’s Form 2 with us for $895 and the conveyancing on your sale is free, PEXA fee included.* One law firm for both sides of your move.
See the seller offerEligible first home buyers pay no transfer duty on an established home up to $700,000, and none on a new home at any price. Building or buying new under $750,000? There’s up to $30,000 in grants too. We check what you can claim.
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Send us the contract. We take it to settlement.How buying with Stanford Legal works
Send the contract. Free
Before you sign, or before auction day. Photos are fine.
We call you, same day
What it means, what’s missing, what to ask the agent.
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Send us the signed copy. Your fixed fee starts here.
We settle, you get the keys
Every date tracked in the Stanford app, settled through PEXA.
Buying a property in Queensland: what your conveyancer does
Conveyancing is the legal work of moving a property into your name. For a Queensland buyer it means checking the contract and the seller’s disclosure before you sign, managing the conditions until the contract is unconditional, and settling on the due date. The Queensland Government’s guide to the contract of sale is at qld.gov.au; doing it properly for your purchase is what we do, for buyers in Brisbane, Ipswich, Springfield, the Gold Coast and across Queensland.
What we check before you sign
- Title search and registered plan
- Easements, covenants and other encumbrances
- The seller’s Form 2 and its certificates
- Zoning and council notices
- Body corporate certificate, levies and by-laws (units)
- Price, deposit and who holds the deposit
- Finance condition and its due date
- Building and pest condition and its due date
- Pool safety certificate, or notice of none
- Special conditions added by the seller or agent
- Tenancy details if the property is leased
- Settlement date and how it’s set
- Rates and water notices for adjustments
Houses and land vs units and townhouses
Buying a lot in a body corporate means taking on its levies, sinking fund and by-laws. The seller’s Form 2 must attach a Form 33 body corporate certificate and the community management statement, and we also review the body corporate records for special levies, disputes and planned major works. That extra work is why a unit or townhouse purchase is $1,320 and a house or land purchase is $1,100. More in our guide to buying with a body corporate.
Cooling-off, conditions and the Form 2
On most private sales you have five business days to cool off, starting when you receive the contract signed by both sides. End the contract in that time and the seller can keep up to 0.25% of the price. There is no cooling-off at auction. Your finance and building and pest conditions run on their own dates. And if the seller didn’t give you a Form 2 before you signed, or it’s wrong about something that matters, you may be able to end the contract before settlement. We tell you which rights apply to you and when each one runs out.
Settlement and transfer duty
Settlement usually happens electronically through PEXA on the date in the contract. Before then we run the final searches, calculate the rates and water adjustments, prepare the transfer and lodge your transfer duty return. Eligible first home buyers pay no transfer duty on an established home valued at $700,000 or less, and new homes and vacant land have their own first home concession. We check what applies to you before settlement.
Get my free reviewGood to know.Conveyancing for buyers in Queensland, questions answered
Yes. Send us the contract before you sign and we’ll review it and the seller’s Form 2 free, whether or not you then buy through us. If you do, it’s part of your fixed fee.
The same business day. If you’ve already signed, we call you back within the hour to check your cooling-off and condition dates first.
We review the contract and the seller’s Form 2 before you sign, manage the cooling-off, finance and building and pest dates, order the searches, prepare the transfer and duty return, calculate the settlement figures and settle electronically through PEXA.
The contract review is free. If you buy through us, our professional fee is $1,100 for a house or land and $1,320 for a unit or townhouse, GST included. Searches and government fees are extra and itemised in your quote: for example, a PEXA settlement fee is $146.30, a title search $43.08 and an identity check $45 per person.
No, but send it to us now. We call you back within the hour, check your cooling-off and condition dates straight away, and tell you what you can still do.
Five business days for most residential contracts, starting when you receive the contract signed by both sides. If you end the contract in that time, the seller can keep up to 0.25% of the price. There’s no cooling-off at auction, and you can waive or shorten it in writing.
It’s the seller disclosure statement. Since 1 August 2025 the seller must give it to you, signed and with its certificates, before you sign. If it’s missing, or wrong about something that matters, you may be able to end the contract before settlement. We check it free as part of your contract review.
Yes. Our unit and townhouse fee includes a review of the body corporate records, covering levies, the sinking fund, special levies, disputes and planned major works, on top of the Form 33 attached to the seller’s Form 2.
Often less, sometimes none. Eligible first home buyers pay no transfer duty on an established home valued at $700,000 or less, and none on a new home at any price. We confirm what applies to you and lodge the duty return.
Nothing for the contract review. Once you engage us to do your conveyancing, a $220 deposit goes into our trust account and comes off your fee at settlement.
Federal anti-money-laundering law requires us to verify who you are before we act on a property purchase. It’s $45 per person, and if we’ve verified you in the last two years we generally won’t charge you again.
Yes. We act for buyers across Queensland from our offices in Springfield Central and Brisbane City. Settlement is electronic, so you don’t need to attend in person.
General information about buying property in Queensland, not legal advice for your situation. Call 0483 980 001 if your purchase is unusual.
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Free contract review before you sign, whether or not you buy through us. *Free conveyancing on the sale of the property your Form 2 is for; saving based on our $880 sale fee and a PEXA fee of about $150. T&Cs apply. Home loan reviews are provided by Stanford Financial. General information only, not legal advice for your situation.
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