Conveyancing in NSW: Sydney, Newcastle, the Central Coast, Wollongong and everywhere in between

What we do for NSW buyers and sellers

For buyers: a review of the contract within 48 hours before you exchange, advice on the five-business-day cooling-off period and whether to sign a section 66W certificate, title, council, water and land tax searches, a strata report for units and townhouses, liaison with your lender, the transfer duty assessment and any First Home Buyers Assistance Scheme claim, the settlement adjustments, and settlement on PEXA. For sellers: the contract for sale with its prescribed documents prepared before the property is marketed, answers to the buyer's requisitions, the discharge of your mortgage, and settlement. The NSW buying guide sets out every step; the NSW fees page sets out every cost.

Sydney

Most Sydney purchases are units and townhouses, so the strata report, the levies and the building's defect history matter as much as the contract. Sydney also buys at auction more than anywhere else in the country, and there is no cooling-off period at auction, which means the contract review, finance approval and inspections have to be done before the hammer falls. In the growth areas of western and south-western Sydney, off-the-plan and house-and-land contracts bring sunset clauses and duty timing questions of their own.

Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and the Hunter

Parts of Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland and Cessnock sit in mine subsidence districts, where a Subsidence Advisory NSW certificate is part of proper due diligence and building approvals can carry conditions. Older housing stock makes the building and pest inspection especially worth doing before exchange.

The Central Coast

From Gosford to Wyong and the coastal villages, planning certificates often carry bushfire-prone land and flood planning notations, and we read them before you commit. Many Central Coast buyers are moving from Sydney and selling at the same time; we line up both settlements so neither holds the other up.

Wollongong and the Illawarra

The escarpment brings landslip and bushfire notations, the lake and the coast bring flood and coastal hazard notations, and the apartment buildings along the beaches bring strata. All of it shows on the section 10.7 certificate and the title, and all of it is checked in the review.

Regional New South Wales

We act across the state: Coffs Harbour, Port Macquarie and the Tweed on the north coast, Albury, Wagga Wagga, Dubbo, Orange, Bathurst and Tamworth inland. Rural and lifestyle properties bring their own questions, such as water entitlements, on-site sewage, access over neighbouring land and rural zoning. On the Queensland and Victorian borders, Tweed Heads and Albury are in NSW and Coolangatta and Wodonga are not; the state the property sits in decides which law, which duty and which cooling-off rules apply, and we act in all three.

A lawyer-led firm at a conveyancer's price

Settle Easy is an incorporated legal practice. Your matter is handled by a licensed conveyancer or a property lawyer, and if it stops being routine, a lawyer is already on the file. Every matter is managed online with a named person as your point of contact.