Fees & Charges
What’s included in our professional service fee
Our Professional Service Fee as shown in our quotes include and are limited to the following.
For sellers:
- Contract assessment to identify any potential risks.
- Conduct relevant title search and provide guidance on any registered mortgages.
- Follow through on any contract conditions.
- Ensure Landgate’s Verification of Identityrequirements are met.
- Communicate with your bank to ensure they have what they need to prepare and present documents in time.
- Keep you and your real estate agent up to date throughout the process.
- Communicate with your bank and other parties to book and attend to settlement.
- Advise you and your real estate agent of the confirmed settlement day and time.
- Adjust rates and taxes.
- Advise you and your real estate agent on completion of settlement.
- Deposit your funds into your nominated bank account.
- Pay the commission to your real estate agent.
- Provide you with a final settlement statement.
- Provide you with professional advice via either phone or email.
For buyers:
- Contract assessment to identify any potential risks.
- Conduct a title and plan search and provide guidance on any registered encumbrances.
- Follow through on any contract conditions.
- Prepare a Transfer of Land and/or a Client Authorisation and forward to you for signing.
- Complete an Electronic Advice of Sale (change of ownership) with the appropriate government authorities.
- Provide you with the relevant replies from the rating authorities.
- Communicate with your broker and/or lender to ensure timely preparation of mortgage documents.
- Communicate with your bank and other parties to book and attend to settlement.
- Advise you and your real estate agent of the confirmed settlement day and time.
- Complete an adjustment of rates and taxes on your behalf.
- Attend to the stamping of your Transfer of Land online.
- Advise you and your real estate agent on completion of settlement.
- Send you a confirmation of settlement along with a final settlement statement, duty certificante and Landgate search confirming you as the new owner.
- Ensure that any outstanding rates are paid.
- Provide you with professional advice via either phone or email.
- Perform a post-settlement land registry search to ensure the title is registered in your name.
- Ensure Landgate’s Verification of Identity requirements are met.
Product disclosure statement
Some transactions demand additional work and this work only becomes evident after we start the settlement process.
Where that occurs the following fees and charges may apply.
For sellers:
| Settlement attendance | $330 |
| –Where we are required to physically attend your settlement. This charge includes all stamping, sighting, lodging and banking into as many accounts as requested. | |
| Settlement date due in under 14 days | $250 |
| –If settlement is due in under 14 days from the day we receive your contract. | |
| –Where a deceased person is shown on the title as the registered proprietor. | |
| Sighting of documents | $25 |
| –Where we are required to attend Landgate to have documents sighted to provide as evidence at lodgement eg. death certificate. | |
| Probate Office Leave Search | $55 |
| –Where we are required to attend the Probate Office when leave is granted to one or more of the executors/ administrators of an estate. | |
| Application for Titles (Subdivision) | From $660 |
| –Where you have sold a property that has been subdivided and titles haven’t been issued. | |
| Statutory Declaration required for a change of name (Marriage, Maiden or Legal change) | $165 |
| –Where the title of a property you are selling is in a name you don’t currently use. | |
| State Administrative Tribunal Statutory Declaration | $165 |
| –Where SAT orders are issued we are required to prepare a supporting Statutory Declaration | |
| Sales involving caveats (per caveat) | $165 |
| –Liaison with the caveator’s representative and assist with the withdrawal. | |
| Sales involving Property Seizure & Sale Orders (per order) | $165 |
| –Assistance with the withdrawal of a Property Seizure & Sale Order. | |
| Overseas seller | $110 |
| –Where the Transfer of Land will be signed overseas or the registered proprietors usually reside outside of Australia. | |
| Transactions involving leases where we are required to adjust the rent | $110 |
| Preparation of a contract variation | $165 |
| Preparing an application for a 21 day notice to be issued to Landgate | $330 |
| –If a caveator cannot be located and we need to prepare an application to have Landgate issue a 21 day notice to the caveator to have the caveat removed. | |
| Payment of invoices other than the Real Estate Agent commission – per invoice | $27.50 |
| Bank cheque fees (per cheque) | $22 |
| Express post (per envelope) | $11 |
| Registered post (per envelope) | $15 |
| Where we are required to provide advice and complete work outside the scope mentioned above | $275/hour |
| Advanced level verification of identity (VOI) check | $220.00 |
For buyers:
| Settlement attendance | $330 |
| –Where we are required to physically attend your settlement. This charge includes all stamping, sighting, lodging and banking into as many accounts as requested. | |
| Settlement date due in under 14 days | $250 |
| –If settlement is due in under 14 days from the day we receive your contract. | |
| Substituted purchasers | $220 |
| –Where you need to bring onto – or take off – the Transfer of Land a qualified related party. | |
| Prepare an Offer and Acceptance for a private purchase or sale | $550 |
| –We will prepare an Offer and Acceptance in readiness for signing. | |
| Purchases involving trusts and superannuation funds POA | |
| Transactions involving leases where we are required to adjust the rent | $110 |
| Issuing a structural defects notice under the standard REIWA Structural Inspection clause | $165 |
| Preparation of a contract variation | $165 |
| Payment of invoices eg. Termite inspection | $27.50 |
| ATO capital gains withholding payment notification form | $110 |
| ATO GST withholding Form 1 & 2 settlement date and payment notifications | $110 |
| –Completing the notification forms and remitting the withholding payment to the ATO. | |
| Bank cheque fees (per cheque) | $22 |
| Express post (per envelope) | $11 |
| Registered post (per envelope) | $15 |
| Where we are required to provide advice and complete work outside the scope mentioned above | $275/hour |
| Advanced level verification of identity (VOI) check | $220.00 |
Rezzi. The edge you need.
Buying a home can either set you up or set you back. I know from firsthand experience the financial gains that come from a smart property purchase. Get it right, and you’re on the path to early retirement. But get it wrong and it will set you back for years.
The stakes are high. And they’re especially high for home buyers because the real estate industry stacks the odds in favour of the seller.
And that’s why I started Rezzi; to give you a real chance of making a winning property move.
My goal is simple: to provide you with the strategies, information and support you need to make bold, confident property decisions.
And, if that’s what you want, let’s talk.
Peter Fletcher
Managing Director
