Services & Costs
Our Settlement Fees are our charge for the professional services and our time to settle your property. Click here to request a quote.
Fee Schedule
Click on the link below for Settlement Fees, Transfer Registration Fees and Transfer Duty:
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 $150 comprised as follows:
- the e-Conveyancing fee to PEXA of $117.92 (now mandated by government)
- a title search ($30),
- the actual cost of any Express Post ($7 or $8 per item), Registered Mail or internation Mail or courier service.
- Sometimes there may also be additional title/encumbrance searches, company searches (from $10 ea) and/or a Landgate fee to register the discharge of mortgage ($181.30).
- If you cannot attend our office InfoTrackID costs $9.95 per person or Australia Post will charge $49 per person for your identity verification to Landgate standards.
BUYERS’ disbursements are much higher at around $360 - $1,000+ comprised as follows:
- e-Conveyancing fee to PEXA of $117.92
- Title searches $70 - $120+ depending on strata & encumbrances
- Rating enquiries $175 - $370+ depending on number of lots & local council
- Landgate Registration $181.30 - $300+ depending on the property value
- Express Post ($7 or $8 per item) or the actual cost of Registered Mail, International Post or couriers
- Strata Title s110 enquiries are $308. These are required for properties with an active strata company
- Additionally there may be company searches (from $10), along with termite, building & pool reports @ $150 - $500 each
- If you cannot attend our office, InfoTrackID costs $9.95 per person or Australia Post will charge $49 per person for your identity verification to Landgate standards.
We DO NOT CHARGE for ordinary or priority postage, phone calls, photocopying printing, faxes, in-house identity verification, document preparation or arranging settlement - these are all included in our settlement fee and if seeking quotes elsewhere, this should be confirmed before accepting quotes.
Transfer Duty (formerly Stamp Duty)
Buyers pay Transfer Duty and sellers pay real estate agents commission and up to about $300,000, they are often quite similar amounts. Click on the link above under 'Fee Schedules' for the tables containing the actual stamp duty amounts.
Foreign Buyers Duty
As from 1 January 2019, foreign buyers are levied an additional 7% duty on the purchase price, or their share of the purchase price. Please contact our office for further information on this or visit the following link to the WA Department of Finance website: https://www.finance.wa.gov.au/cms/State_Revenue/Duties/Foreign_Buyers_Duty.aspx