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The tools and rules changing how property is bought and sold.
Queensland without paper title deeds: what proves ownership now
Paper certificates of title lost their legal effect in Queensland on 1 October 2019. What the electronic register is, what an old deed is worth, and how an owner checks a title.
Generative AI on a conveyancing file: what Queensland's rules say
Queensland's courts and its Law Society have both published rules on generative AI. What they say on confidentiality, checking, supervision and costs, and what a client can ask.
Digital Assets Framework Act: what it changes for a Queensland lot
The federal Act licenses two kinds of token platform from 9 April 2027. What it creates, its timetable, the size exemption, and what stays under Queensland land, duty and scheme law.
The software inside a real estate agency, and what trust law asks
An agency runs on five kinds of software. Queensland law says little about most of them and a great deal about the one that holds trust money: what it must do, and what an auditor checks.
RTA Web Services: how Queensland bonds are lodged and refunded online
How the Residential Tenancies Authority's online bond services work: the login, lodgement, the 48-hour fast track refund, contributor changes and what is still done on paper.
Electronic deeds under the Property Law Act 2023: what still needs ink
Queensland's property statute lets a deed be an electronic document, signed electronically and without a witness. What Part 6 says, section by section, and what stays on paper.
Paper or screen: the nine dealings Queensland lawyers must lodge online
Since 20 February 2023 nine common title instruments must be lodged electronically by professionals in Queensland. The list, the exemptions, the form that claims them and the history.
AI-drafted condition reports: what Queensland tenancy law still asks
Form 1a, Form 14a and routine inspections carry fixed duties and deadlines in Queensland. Where photo-to-text and voice-to-text drafting fits, and who answers for the wording.
How ASIC classifies a token tied to a Queensland rental unit
ASIC's Information Sheet 225 sets the tests for whether a property token is a financial product. Each test, the licences that follow and the no-action deadline, applied to one unit.
Body corporate by email and e-vote: Queensland's digital rulebook
Electronic votes, emailed meeting notices and record requests in a Queensland body corporate: what the regulation modules allow, what a scheme must decide first, and the fees from 1 July 2026.
Workspace, subscriber, signer: an e-conveyancing glossary for Queensland
The working vocabulary of electronic settlement, term by term, taken from the national rule books and Titles Queensland, with a note on the words the rules leave undefined.
Agency chatbots and tenants: what an automated reply cannot do
What a property management chatbot does with a tenant's message, what the privacy regulator expects of the agency using it, and which Queensland notices software cannot replace.
From agency software to the portal: how a property listing travels
A listing is typed once and copied to every portal. How the feed works, what Queensland trust rules say about advertising money, who measures portal audiences and what an ad may claim.
Signing a transfer without a pen: how digital signatures bind a firm
How a Queensland transfer is signed digitally: the certificate behind the signature, who in a firm may sign, what the signer certifies and when a signature can be disowned.
Buying a fraction of a Queensland property: when it becomes a scheme
Pooling money to own a share of a Queensland property can be a managed investment scheme. What registration, licensing and disclosure mean, and how co-ownership on title differs.
The law behind e-conveyancing: how a national scheme binds Queensland
Electronic settlement rests on one national law that Queensland applies through its own 2013 Act. How the layers fit, what the two rulebooks are for, and who enforces them.
Virtual staging and AI-edited photos: what the law allows
Digital furniture, new skies, erased power lines and AI 'renovations': how edited listing photos are made, what the law says in Queensland, and what a buyer can check on site.
Tenancy notices by email in Queensland: consent, forms, counting days
When a Queensland tenancy notice may be emailed, where consent is recorded in the agreement, which RTA forms are involved and how the notice period is counted from the moment of sending.
Can a Queensland land title be put on a blockchain? What the Act says
The Land Title Act 1994 makes the State's register the title itself. What that means for a token or ledger entry kept elsewhere, and which provisions Parliament would have to revisit.
The client authorisation: the form that lets a lawyer sign for you
Buyers, sellers and some lenders sign a client authorisation so a subscriber can sign registry documents digitally. What the law says it is, its three types and how it ends.