Start with the transaction you are in
Conveyancing looks like one process and is really several, each with its own documents and its own moment where a decision cannot be taken back. These pages set out the ones this site covers.
General information, not legal advice. This page sets out how the law generally applies. It does not take account of your circumstances, and you should get advice about your own situation before acting on it. The official sources this page is written from are listed on it; where they differ from anything here, they are the authority.
The point at which advice is worth most is before exchange, while the contract can still change. After exchange the question stops being what you would like and becomes what the contract says.
If you are already at exchange or past it, say so first — that changes what is useful to tell you.
Buying and selling
Residential purchase
What the vendor must attach to the contract before it can be offered, what the cooling-off period does and when it does not apply, and what to check before exchange.
Residential sale
Preparing a contract that can be offered, the documents that must be in it, and what happens between exchange and completion.
Particular kinds of property
Strata purchases
What a strata report tells you, what the owners corporation’s records show about levies and defects, and what you are buying into beyond the lot itself.
Off-the-plan purchases
The disclosure statement, changes between the plan and the finished building, and the protections that apply to off-the-plan contracts.
Money and schemes
Transfer duty
How duty works, when it falls due and who administers it. Rates and thresholds change, so this page sends you to Revenue NSW rather than quoting a figure.
First home buyers
The schemes that exist for first home buyers, what each is broadly for, and where to check current eligibility rather than take it from a website.
Before you sign anything
Where are you up to?
Tell us whether a contract has been issued, whether anything has been signed, and any date you have been given. That decides what is useful.