Plain-English guides to selling development sites, land and property in South East Queensland, with every figure checked against official sources.
Title, zoning and overlays, flood, contamination, heritage, services, infrastructure charges, access, vegetation, ground conditions, seller disclosure and tax: what to check on a Queensland development site.
Read the guide →Apartments, townhouses and land bought before they are built: deposits in trust, disclosure statements, sunset clauses, cooling-off and first home grants and duty concessions.
Read the guide →Offices, shops and industrial property: the three sale methods, how buyers value income and yield, GST and going concerns, and the documents Queensland sellers need.
Read the guide →How development sites are found and secured in SEQ: the brief, site screening, off-market approaches and amalgamations, offer terms, due diligence and settlement.
Read the guide →How a call option and a put and call option over land work in Queensland, what owners should check, and how duty applies to option agreements.
Read the guide →The five stages of a development application, the statutory timeframes in business days, what slows a Gold Coast DA down and who pays.
Read the guide →What your zone and overlays mean, accepted vs code vs impact assessment, and how to check Gold Coast zoning for free in Interactive Mapping.
Read the guide →Zoning, overlays, size and frontage, servicing, location and nearby approvals – what developers look for in a site, and how to check your own land.
Read the guide →How an off-market property sale works, the pros and cons, the rules that still apply, and when selling to a developer privately beats a public campaign.
Read the guide →How developers work backwards from the finished project to a land price, what yield, infrastructure charges and GST do to it, and how much your development site is worth.
Read the guide →What a property amalgamation is, how neighbours sell together as one development site, how the money is split and what can go wrong.
Read the guide →Zoning, yield, price, campaign, paperwork and contract terms – what to do, in order, to sell land to a developer.
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