Buying and selling a home
What you need to know before buying or selling a home, including information about the different stages and where to get help.
You may also be eligible for financial help to build or buy a home in the Northern Territory. Read more about home owner assistance.
- Buying a unit in a body corporate
Buying into a unit complex with a body corporate, what does common property include, finances and body corporate responsibilities - Buying off the plan
Buying a property off the plan, including risks and signing a contract. - Dealing with a real estate agent
What do real estate agents do, before your sign up, types of agreements, the duties of a real estate agent and rules and responsibilities of real estate agents. - Real estate auctions
Real estate auctions, before you buy or sell at auction, what happens on auction day, after the auction, if you are the successful bidder, if the property is passed in. - Research before you buy or sell a property
Research you should do before you buy or sell a property. - Ways you can sell your property
Different ways you can sell your property.
- Make an offer to buy a property
How to make an offer to buy a property.
- Contract of sale
Contract of sale, information needed, before you sign, exchanging contracts and cooling off periods. - Conveyancing
What happens during conveyancing, what conveyancers do, charges, getting a solicitor to do conveyancing and doing it yourself.
- Settlement of a property sale
What happens at settlement of a property sale. - Stamp duty: buying or selling a home
Rules about stamp duty on homes in the Northern Territory. - Buying or selling property with pools or spas
What buyers and sellers need to do when a property with a pool or spa is being sold.
- Complain about a real estate professional
How to complain about a real estate agent or conveyancer. - Gazumping
What is gazumping, what if you are gazumped, protect yourself against gazumping. - If something goes wrong with property sale
What to do If something goes wrong with a property sale.