If you’ve found your perfect new QLD home or investment property, and it has a ‘sitting tenant’ (meaning there is currently a tenant/s residing there who will be staying there when the property becomes yours) – you may be wondering how this may affect the amount of stamp duty (transfer duty) you’ll be [...]
Feeling the call to move to the Sunshine state? Conveyancing processes and rules can differ quite dramatically from state-to-state. Here's a list of things every buyer looking to purchase in Queensland should know: In QLD, property purchase contracts are “buyer beware” – in other words, it is up to incoming buyer to do [...]
In Queensland, foreign persons buying certain residential properties are subject to Additional Foreign Acquirer Duty (AFAD). The government introduced this payment to ensure foreign acquirers of residential property who benefit from government services and infrastructure also contribute to their delivery, the same as local buyers. *Note: for some New Zealand citizens, there are [...]
