Services & Costs
Settlement Fees are set from time to time by the Settlement Agents Supervisory Board and published in the Government Gazette. They represent the maximum cost for the professional services and the settlement agent’s time to settle your property. Click here to request a quote.
Fee Schedules
Click on the links below for Settlement Fees, Transfer Registration Fees and Stamp Duty:
- Price up to $640,000 (PDF 55 KB)
- Price $645,00 to $5 million (PDF 86 KB)
Disbursements are additional to settlement fees and are out of pocket expenses necessarily incurred by the settlement agent in the process of settling the property, over which the settlement agent has little control. In all cases disbursements are not marked up and are fully disclosed and detailed on settlement statements.
SELLERS’ disbursements usually are around $75 - $100 comprised of a title search ($20), bank cheques ($11 ea) and telephone, postage, photocopying ($40). Sometimes there may be additional title/encumbrance searches, company searches ($25 ea) and/or a Landgate fee to register the discharge of mortgage ($135).
BUYERS’ disbursements are much higher at around $430 - $650 comprised as follows:
- Title searches $50 - $120+ depending on strata & encumbrances
- Rating enquiries $175 - $300+ depending on number of lots & local council area
- Landgate Registration $135 - $300+ depending on the property value
- Telephone, postage, photocopying etc ($60)
- Bank cheques ($11 ea)
- Strata Title s43 enquiries are $110. These are required for properties with an active strata company
- Additionally there may be company searches ($25), if there are charges against the company they will need to be searched as well ($35ea) along with termite, building structural, pool report @ $150 - $500 each
Stamp Duty
Buyers pay stamp duty and sellers pay real estate agents commission and they are often quite similar amounts. Click on the links above under 'Fee Schedules' for the tables containing the actual stamp duty amounts.