Disclaimer
This page sets out what you can rely on from the rest of this site, and what you cannot. It is short. Please read it before you act on anything you have read here.
Last reviewed September 2026
The short version
Everything here is general information
Our pages, guides and blog posts describe how conveyancing generally works in Victoria and South Australia. They are written for a general reader. They are not advice about your contract, your title, your land or your settlement, because we have not seen any of those things.
Your transaction will contain facts a general page cannot know about. A special condition at the back of a contract. An easement across the rear of the block. A sunset date in an off the plan contract. Any one of those changes the answer completely, so please do not treat a page here as a substitute for someone reading your actual documents.
Reading this site does not make you our client. We act for you once you have engaged us in writing, and not before. Until then nothing here is a professional opinion about your matter.
Check the figures
Law, duty rates and government fees change
Conveyancing sits on top of legislation, duty rates, thresholds, concessions and government fees, and all of those move. State budgets change them. Concessions get introduced or withdrawn. Fees are indexed. A page that was correct the day it was written can be wrong a year later without a single word on it changing.
So we date our pages and we check them. We still ask you to confirm any rate, threshold or eligibility rule with the authority that sets it. They publish the current position, free to read.
State Revenue Office Victoria
Sets Victorian land transfer duty, land tax, and the concessions and exemptions that go with them.
www.sro.vic.gov.au →RevenueSA
The same ground in South Australia. Stamp duty, land tax and the current SA thresholds.
www.revenuesa.sa.gov.au →Consumer Affairs Victoria
Licences Victorian conveyancers, and the source on vendor statements and sale of land rules.
www.consumer.vic.gov.au →Consumer and Business Services
Registers South Australian conveyancers, and the source on Form 1 disclosure and SA cooling off.
www.cbs.sa.gov.au →Scope
A licensed conveyancer is not a solicitor
We are licensed in Victoria under the Conveyancers Act 2006 (Vic) and registered in South Australia under the Conveyancers Act 1994 (SA). That licence covers conveyancing work: the sale, purchase and transfer of land, the documents that go with it, and settlement. You can check any conveyancer on the public register kept in Victoria by the Business Licensing Authority / Consumer Affairs Victoria, and on the one kept in South Australia by Consumer and Business Services.
Some matters look like property matters but are legal work outside that licence. We do not act on them and we do not advise on them, on this site or in person. If any of the following is what you actually need, see a solicitor. Saying so early saves you money.
- A dispute with the other party, or anything heading to VCAT or a court
- Wills, probate and estate planning
- Trusts, company structures and business structuring
- Tax advice, and whether a duty concession or exemption applies to you
- Family law property settlements and the orders behind them
- Commercial leasing
- Self managed super fund and foreign investment questions
- Building disputes, defects and anything about the condition of a property
The same goes for the parts of a purchase that belong to other trades. We read the paperwork and the title. A building inspector reads the building. Where a page here touches on that work, it is pointing you to the right person rather than doing their job.
Read this one twice
If you get an email changing our bank details, stop
Settlements move large sums, and criminals know it. Someone gets into an email account, reads the conversation quietly, then sends a message carrying new account details. The address is a character or two off the real one. The signature looks right, and so does the timing, because they have been watching.
We will not email you new bank details partway through a matter. If anything arrives that changes where your money is to be sent, treat it as fraud until you have proved otherwise.
Before you transfer a cent
- Ring us on 0450 016 397, using the number on this site. Never a number printed in the email.
- Confirm the account name, BSB and number out loud with someone you have spoken to before.
- Do not reply to the message, and do not click a link in it.
- If your bank allows it, send a small test amount first and ring to confirm it landed.
Money sent to a fraudulent account is very hard to get back, and it is often moved on within hours. A phone call takes a minute.
Also worth saying
A few things, stated plainly
Links to other sites
We link to government and industry sites because they are the source and you should be able to check us. We do not control them, and we are not responsible for what they publish or for changes made after we linked.
Examples on this site
Where a page describes a situation, it is written to illustrate a point. It is not an account of a particular client or file.
Reviews
Quoted reviews were published by the reviewers on Google, in their own words. We did not write them, edit their meaning or pay for them.
Timeframes
Where we describe how long something usually takes, that is a general pattern and not a promise about your matter. Settlement timing depends on lenders, councils, water authorities and the other side, and none of those are ours to control.
If we have got something wrong
Tell us. Email convey@wisestep.com.au with the page and what looks off, and we will check it and fix it.
Ask us instead
A general page cannot read your contract
If you want an answer about your own property rather than property in general, send us the documents. We will tell you what they say, and whether we are the right people for it.
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