Conveyancing for Victoria and South Australia
Four kinds of property work, plus a contract read before you sign anything. All of it runs from the office on High Street, Cranbourne, at one price agreed with you before we start.
What we do
Find the one that sounds like you
Most people arrive knowing roughly what they need and not much about how it works. Each page below sets out the steps, the documents and the points where something can go wrong.
Buying a property
We read the contract and the vendor statement before you sign and tell you in plain words what is in them. Then the searches, the title check, the rates and outgoings, the bank, and settlement on the day. Auction purchases and off-the-plan contracts included.
First home buyers, investors, auction bidders, anyone signing a contract.
Read more →Selling a property
Your disclosure document prepared properly and early: a Section 32 in Victoria, a Form 1 in South Australia. A gap in it can cost a seller the sale, so we order the certificates before your campaign goes live rather than while buyers are waiting.
Private sale or auction, house, unit or vacant land.
Read more →Putting a property in someone else's name
Adding a partner to a title, taking one off after a separation, a gift between family members, or a transfer out of a deceased estate. We prepare the transfer and lodge it, and we tell you where you need to check your duty position with the revenue office or your accountant before we do.
Family transfers, partner changes, transfers from an estate.
Read more →Subdividing a block
The conveyancing side of a subdivision, from the plan going to council through certification and the statement of compliance, to the moment new titles issue and you can sell or build. Older blocks around Cranbourne and Devon Meadows are often wide enough to split.
Two lot splits and small developments in Victoria.
Read more →Before you sign
Contract and vendor statement review
This is the one people leave too late. Send us the contract and the vendor statement while you are still deciding, and you get a proper read and a straight answer on what you would be agreeing to: the special conditions, the settlement date, what the disclosure does and does not cover, and anything sitting on the title that will follow you.
Once you have signed, your options narrow a great deal. If you are bidding at a Saturday auction there is no cooling off at all in Victoria, so the review has to happen during the week before. Weekends by appointment, which is usually when it matters.
Where we act
Two states, two sets of documents
We are licensed in Victoria and registered in South Australia. The shape of a matter is much the same in both places. The paperwork behind it is not, and the deadlines are different too.
Victoria
Licensed under the Conveyancers Act 2006
Licensed conveyancers in Victoria are licensed by the Business Licensing Authority and overseen by Consumer Affairs Victoria. Our office is at Office 4, Level 1, 105A High Street, Cranbourne VIC 3977, and most of our work sits in the south east growth corridor: Cranbourne and the estates around it, Clyde, Clyde North, Botanic Ridge, Junction Village, Devon Meadows, Lynbrook and Lyndhurst, out through Berwick, Narre Warren, Hampton Park, Officer and Pakenham.
The seller's disclosure document is the Section 32 vendor statement, which has to be given to the buyer before the contract is signed. Cooling off is three clear business days on a private sale, and there is none at auction.
South Australia
Registered under the Conveyancers Act 1994
We act for South Australian buyers and sellers, registered with Consumer and Business Services. There is no South Australian office. The file is run remotely from Cranbourne, which works because conveyancing is electronic: documents are signed online, funds move through the electronic settlement platform, and nobody sits in a room passing paper across a table any more.
The seller's disclosure document is the Form 1, not a Section 32. Cooling off is two clear business days, and the clock is tied to when the Form 1 is served rather than to the day you signed.
Guides
Read up before you commit to anything
Written for each state separately, because the rules genuinely differ. No sign up, no email gate, and every legal point is sourced.
Victorian guides
Being straight with you
What we do not take on
A conveyancing licence covers the transfer of property. That is a real limit, and it is worth knowing before you ring around. If your matter is on the list beside this, a solicitor is the right person and we will say so on the first call.
Telling you that early costs us the job. It also saves you months, which is the better trade. Where we can, we will point you towards someone who does that work.
Ask us if we can helpSend these to a solicitor
- A dispute with the other side, or anything heading to a court or VCAT
- Wills, probate, estate planning and testamentary trusts
- Trusts, company structures and self managed super fund purchases
- Advice on your own duty, land tax or GST position
- Family law property settlements. Once orders exist we can register the transfer, but the orders themselves are legal work
- Commercial leasing and business sale agreements
Get in touch
Tell us what you are dealing with
Five questions, and you will hear back from a person who has read them. If you would rather talk it through, call 0450 016 397 or email convey@wisestep.com.au.
Office 4, Level 1, 105A High Street
Cranbourne VIC 3977
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Weekends by appointment