Industry
The professions, the firms and the people behind every sale.
Conveyancing fees in Queensland: fees, outlays and your rights
How a Queensland conveyancing bill is built: professional fees, outlays, the $1,500 and $3,000 disclosure thresholds, itemised bills and costs assessment.
Becoming a real estate agent in Queensland: registration or licence
Most Queensland careers in real estate start with a salesperson registration and move to a full licence. What each one requires, costs and allows, from 12 units to 19.
Bundaberg, Childers, Mackay: agency networks move into the regions
Belle Property has opened in Bundaberg, Coronis has added Childers and REMAX has named a general manager in Mackay, three regional Queensland moves reported in eleven days.
Top fine for most Queensland agent offences is now $34,540
Fair Trading's penalty list for property agents, updated on 1 July 2026, reflects a penalty unit of $172.70. What each offence carries, and how the amounts are built.
REIQ award entries close 12 July as the institute returns to the REIA
Nominations for the 2026 REIQ Awards for Excellence close on 12 July, days after the institute's return to the national body took effect. Dates, categories and judging.
The agency licence in Queensland: company, person in charge, office
A Queensland real estate agency is a licensed business, not just a team of licensed people. How the corporation licence works, who must be in charge and what the office must do.
On the rostrum: the auctioneer's legal duties on a Queensland auction day
From the name on display to the signature after the hammer, the duties Queensland law places on the auctioneer personally, the stated penalties, and where discretion begins.
REBAA puts the usual engagement fee at $1,000 to $5,000
The buyer's agents' association says most of a fee should fall due only when a purchase succeeds. Two days later, the failed agency Dashdot's technology and lending arm were sold.
Retirement villages and manufactured homes: not an ordinary conveyance
A retirement village unit and a manufactured home in a Queensland park are bought under their own Acts. What is acquired, the disclosure, the cooling-off and the way out.
Queensland agent licence fees from 1 July: $1,709 for the first year
The Office of Fair Trading's fee list, updated on 1 July 2026, puts a first-year agent licence at $1,709 and a salesperson registration at $401.10. Here is the full schedule.
What a conveyancing solicitor does, from first call to settlement
Stage by stage, the work a Queensland conveyancing solicitor does for a buyer and for a seller: the tasks, the documents and the dates the lawyer keeps.
How to check a Queensland agent's licence on the public register
Queensland's free online register shows whether an agent, salesperson or agency is licensed, in what class and with what status. How to read an entry and what it cannot tell you.
Buyer's agency collapse leaves 695 clients owed $10.6 million
Liquidators' figures for the failed buyer's agency Dashdot show $10.59 million in prepaid fees owed to 695 clients. Three industry bodies now want tighter rules on fees and licensing.
Resident letting agents: the on-site manager's licence in Queensland
What a resident letting agent licence allows in a Queensland unit complex, who can hold one, how owners appoint the manager and where body corporate agreements fit.
Running an open home in Queensland: the rules on the agent's side
What a Queensland agent answers for at an open home or private inspection: the seller's instructions, price talk, the visitor register and entry to a tenanted home.
How an agency is chosen: what a Queensland seller can check first
Before appointing an agency, a seller can verify more than most people realise: the licence, who is in charge, the appointment terms and what the brand does and does not guarantee.
What a Queensland agent must disclose to a buyer and to a seller
Queensland agents must tell sellers about fees, rebates and any personal interest, and tell buyers about benefits and relationships behind a referral. The forms, timing and limits.
Ten units and a suitability test: Queensland's auctioneer licence path
Calling a property auction in Queensland takes its own licence. What it authorises, the ten training units, the suitability test, the application and the renewal cycle.
What a buyer's agent does in Queensland, and the licence it takes
A buyer's agent searches, checks, negotiates and bids for a purchaser. In Queensland the work needs the same licence or registration as selling. A guide to the role and its rules.
Who may do conveyancing in Queensland, and why it takes a law firm
Queensland has no licensed conveyancers: the work belongs to solicitors and law practices. What the Act says, where clerks fit, and how other states differ.