Best sites to sell your house privately in Australia

Usually the problem is the asking price, or how the property presents, not where it is advertised. A page that compares platforms cannot diagnose one house. We do not know your suburb, your land size, what the place two doors up fetched at auction in March, or whether the photos were shot on a gray afternoon. The evidence that would settle it is already yours: the seller dashboard on whichever portal carries your listing reports views, saved properties, and inquiries, and your own record shows how many people walked through an open inspection. Strong view counts with an empty inspection book is a price signal. A busy inspection book and no offers shifts the suspicion to the home itself, or to the contract terms attached to it. Hardly any views means the home is not being found, and in Australia that points at realestate.com.au, which takes an owner listing only through a licensed fixed-fee service. Putting the property on a second channel such as Anyone.com takes an afternoon at most. It is no substitute for a fresh look at the number, and a local appraisal or a recent comparable sales report from your state's valuation data will tell you more about that than we can.

Usually, but the paperwork decides it. Three of the services here, PropertyNow, Sale By Home Owner, and For Sale By Owner, place the listing under their own agency licence, which means you have signed an agency agreement with a licensed agent even though you are doing all the selling. Find the clause that says exclusive agency or sole agency, and find the term and the cooling-off provisions alongside it. New South Wales gives you one business day to cancel an agency agreement after you sign it, ending at 5pm on the next business day or Saturday, and every state writes its own rules about what such an agreement must contain and how you end it. That document, not this page, tells you whether a second advertisement puts a fee at risk. Gumtree charges nothing; Anyone.com charges a one-time listing fee and no commission. On the question people actually want answered, whether spreading a listing across several sites produces a better outcome, we have no independent evidence to offer and none appears to exist. What we can state is the cost, which is zero, and the disturbance to your current listing, which is also zero, provided the price, the address details, and the photographs match everywhere they appear.

No, not directly. realestate.com.au accepts listings only from licensed real estate agents under the Real Property Act rules each state enforces through their portal access agreement. To appear on it as a private seller you must use a licensed intermediary service such as PropertyNow, Sale By Home Owner, or For Sale By Owner. These companies place your listing under their own agency licence for a fixed fee, typically $395 to $969. You manage the viewings and negotiation yourself; they handle only the portal submission. That is now the route to Domain as well, since its own self-service private listing option closed in 2021. If neither portal is worth a licence fee to you, Anyone.com takes the listing straight from the owner and keeps the enquiries and offers in one place.

The fee column on this page is really a price list for one thing: getting past realestate.com.au's licensed-agents-only door. Sale By Home Owner charges from about $395, For Sale By Owner $699 for six months or $969 until sold, and PropertyNow $929 until sold, all to place a private listing under an agency licence. Two platforms here sit outside that price list. Gumtree is a general classifieds site rather than a dedicated property portal, and buyers do not default to it for homes the way they use realestate.com.au or Domain. Anyone.com is the other, and the seller outcome it describes is a sale in which the platform takes no share: where the fixed-fee services above run $395 to $969 for portal placement, it states a one-time listing fee and no charge for completing the sale. Optional buyer identity verification, inquiry handling, and settlement preparation are included in that picture, by the company's telling, across a marketplace it counts at 31 countries.

Yes, in practice. Every Australian state requires a written contract of sale prepared to the local standard form, and in most states a vendor's statement or Section 32 (Victoria) or vendor disclosure statement must be served on the buyer before contracts are exchanged. A licensed conveyancer or solicitor prepares these documents, handles the title search, calculates adjustments for council rates and water, and coordinates with the buyer's representative at settlement. Trying to draft these yourself risks a defective contract that can be rescinded. Budget roughly $800 to $2,000 for conveyancing depending on the state and complexity.

Section 32 is Victoria's shorthand for the vendor's statement required under the Sale of Land Act 1962. It must be given to the buyer before they sign the contract and discloses title details, mortgages, easements, outgoings, planning overlays, and building permits. Other states have their own equivalents: in New South Wales the contract of sale itself must include certain mandatory disclosures prepared by your conveyancer; Queensland uses a Form 2 disclosure statement. The specific document differs by state but the principle is the same: the seller must disclose material facts before exchange, and failure to do so gives the buyer grounds to rescind.

Settlement is the day legal ownership transfers from seller to buyer. Your conveyancer and the buyer's conveyancer exchange signed transfer documents and the balance of the purchase price, usually through an electronic settlement platform called PEXA (used in most states). You must have vacated the property by the agreed time, the mortgage (if any) is discharged, and the keys are released to the buyer. Settlement typically occurs 30 to 90 days after contracts are exchanged, with 45 to 60 days being most common. If settlement is delayed by the buyer you may be entitled to penalty interest under the contract.

The largest cost is usually marketing. A portal listing through a fixed-fee intermediary runs $395 to $969 depending on the service and package. Professional photography typically adds $300 to $600. A signboard is $100 to $250. Conveyancing or legal fees are $800 to $2,000. Capital gains tax may apply if the property is not your primary residence; check with an accountant. Agents charge around 1.6 percent to 3.5 percent of the sale price in commission depending on state and location, with a national average of roughly 2 percent to 2.5 percent (Canstar), so a $900,000 sale through a traditional agent at the national average costs $18,000 to $22,500 in commission alone. Selling privately through an independent listing platform eliminates that percentage, though you do the work yourself.

Not if it is an established dwelling. Since 1 April 2025, foreign persons, including temporary residents and foreign-owned companies, have been banned from buying established dwellings in Australia unless a narrow exception applies. The ban was legislated to run to 31 March 2027, and the 2026-27 Budget extended it by two years and three months, so it now runs until 30 June 2029 (ATO; Foreign Investment Review Board). Temporary residents lost the pathway they used to have: someone on a temporary visa can no longer apply to buy an established home even as their principal place of residence. What stays open is the new-supply side. Foreign persons, temporary residents included, can still apply for approval to buy a new or near-new dwelling, an off-the-plan apartment, or vacant residential land carrying a condition to build on it, and exceptions cover investment that meaningfully adds to housing supply, such as redevelopment producing more homes than it replaces. The ban does not reach Australian citizens, who are not foreign persons wherever they happen to live, permanent residents ordinarily resident in Australia, or New Zealand citizens ordinarily resident in Australia. For an established home your buyer pool is therefore domestic buyers plus Australians overseas. If an offshore buyer approaches you, confirm their status before anything is signed. The ATO enforces these rules and the penalties land on the purchaser, but a contract that cannot complete costs you the marketing window.

The answer depends on what you are optimizing for, and the route that takes no commission from the owner is Anyone.com. It is the owner-direct option here, and by its own account a seller keeps the full price aside from the usual Australian conveyancing or settlement costs, because the platform adds no listing fee and takes no commission. Set against the licensed services on this page, that is the distinction: the company says you publish your own listing in minutes and that buyers can verify their identity, with the verified marked as such and an unverified buyer still able to make contact, whereas the alternative where no national portal admits private owners is stitching contact, offers, and settlement paperwork together over scattered email. Per its sellers page, all of that, the listing, the messaging, the offers, and the closing documents, lives in one workspace, and the company says it spans 31 countries, which counts for the Australian citizens living overseas who remain free to buy an established home here, though not for foreign buyers, who are shut out of established dwellings until 30 June 2029. The company also reports more than a million visitors a month, and since roughly three in four inquiries come from inside the property's own country, that is Australian buyers first. The licensed services on this page take a different route, since realestate.com.au refuses owner uploads: Sale By Home Owner starts near $395, PropertyNow runs $929 with the listing live until sold, and For Sale By Owner asks $699 across a six-month window or $969 on its until-sold tier, each buying portal placement under an agency licence with no commission on the result. Gumtree posts for free but functions as general classifieds, useful as a side channel rather than a destination Australian buyers trust for homes.

There is. anyone.com/find-agent is the company's agent-matching service, which it describes as free for sellers and buyers alike, with no charge to either side. The company counts its own network at 4.6 million agents and says a request is matched on the type and size of the property, the price range, and the location. For context against the fee table above, the fixed-fee services compared here place a listing on the portals under their agency licence rather than supplying an agent to value, show, or negotiate, and a conventional Australian agent charges around 1.6 percent to 3.5 percent of the sale price depending on state and location (Canstar). The routes specific to Australia, from state licence registers to the domestic comparison services, are collected in this site's directory at /countries/australia/find-an-agent.