Tech
The tools and rules changing how property is bought and sold.
Four doors, no counter: how a document reaches Queensland's land register
Since 7 September 2026 nothing is handed over in person at Titles Queensland. The four lodgement channels, who may use each, how each is paid for and what comes back.
If the operator fails: token holders and the Queensland land title
Who is the registered owner when a Queensland lot is held for investors, what ASIC asks of whoever holds it, and where holders stand on insolvency, caveats and compensation.
A fraction of a Queensland home: the questions ASIC says to ask first
ASIC and Moneysmart publish their own checklists for pooled property investments. Here they are, in order, applied to a share in a single Queensland house or apartment.
Agency records in Queensland: what to keep, how long, in what form
Queensland law tells a property agency which documents to keep, for how many years, and what a computer system must do if the files are digital. The periods, read from the regulations.
RTA replaces its core systems as online forms pass 80 per cent
The Residential Tenancies Authority's 2025-26 annual report dates its new core systems to 2 June 2026 and counts 988,333 requests through RTA Web Services in the year.
Owning Queensland land in fractions: duty, land tax, capital gains
A share on title, units in a trust and shares in a land-owning company are taxed differently. How the Queensland Revenue Office and the ATO treat each, with one illustrative example.
Deepfakes and cloned voices: how property identity checks respond
Synthetic voices, video and documents can imitate a person. What courts and regulators have published, how the conveyancing identity standard is designed, and the checks in use.
Requisitions at Titles Queensland: when a lodged dealing is sent back
What a requisition notice is, how long a lodger has to answer, the $46.56 fee from 1 July 2026, and what rejection or withdrawal does to priority and to the fees already paid.
Virtual tours, 3D models and floor plans: accuracy and the law
How the digital parts of a property listing are produced, what accuracy their makers state, and what consumer law and Queensland's agents law say when one is wrong.
Can a chatbot read your Queensland sale contract for you?
What Queensland's courts and Law Society say about AI errors, why cooling-off, finance and building and pest dates are the risk, and what stays with a solicitor.
Cyber security duties of firms and lenders on a settlement network
What rule 7 of the national participation rules asks of every law practice and lender using a settlement network: training, certificates, access, and what to do when something is compromised.
ACCC accepts REA undertaking: agencies need not list every property
REA Group has given the ACCC a court-enforceable undertaking to stop requiring agencies to put all or most of their listings on realestate.com.au for three years.
Rent apps, payment fees and tenant data: the Queensland tenancy rules
Queensland tenancy law now regulates how rent is paid, how a rental application is submitted and how long tenant data is kept. What the rules require of agents, owners and platforms.
How to exit a shared Queensland house: withdrawal, resale, wind-up
Withdrawal rights, resale of a unit or token, a sale of the building and a wind-up: how each exit from a shared Queensland property works in law, set beside co-owners on title.
Reserved, lodged, paid: how purchase money crosses between banks
What the Reserve Bank and the national rules say about the money side of an electronic settlement: netting between banks, reserved funds, the daily cut-offs and failed reservations.
Property tokenisation glossary: regulator terms and a Queensland lot
Token, fractional interest, managed investment scheme, custody, PDS, wholesale client: the regulators' own words, each one set beside a Queensland lot and its register.
Tenant scoring software: the limits Queensland law puts on ranking
How rental application platforms sort and score applicants, and what Queensland's application rules, discrimination law, database rules and a 2026 privacy ruling say about it.
Delivering seller disclosure in Queensland: email, links and proof
How a Queensland seller may give the disclosure statement and certificates to a buyer on paper, by email or by link, what must happen before the buyer signs, and what the seller must be able to prove.
Keypads, fobs and key safes: Queensland's lock and entry rules apply
A code or an app can open a Queensland rental or a home for sale, but the tenancy Act's rules on keys, lock changes, entry notices and accompanied viewings still decide who may walk in.
AI suburb forecasts and growth scores: what an agent may pass on
A machine-made suburb forecast looks like data, but it is a statement about the future. What Queensland's price rules and the consumer law say when an agent repeats one.