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. On Gumtree, one property ad at a time is free. 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 say is that a second advertisement does not disturb the first, provided the price, the address details, and the photographs match everywhere they appear.

Through a licensed fixed-fee agency, because realestate.com.au takes listings from licensed agents only. For Sale By Owner charges $799 for six months or $899 until sold, and PropertyNow $999 until sold. Sale By Home Owner's packages that include realestate.com.au start at $795 on its current offer, normally $899; its cheaper Basic package covers Domain and other sites but not realestate.com.au. Each places the ad under its own agency licence, on Domain as well, and leaves the inspections, enquiries and negotiation to you. You sign an agency agreement with the service, so read its exclusivity and cooling-off terms, and you will still want a conveyancer or solicitor, or a settlement agent in Western Australia, to prepare the contract and handle settlement. If the portal is not worth that fee to you, you can publish on Anyone.com yourself, with 0% commission, and keep enquiries and offers on one screen.

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 $795 on its current offer (normally $899), For Sale By Owner $799 for six months or $899 until sold, and PropertyNow $999 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 roughly $800 to $1,000 for portal placement, it states a one-time listing fee and no charge for completing the sale. Optional buyer identity verification, enquiry handling, offers and the agreement proposal are included in that picture, 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 $400 to $2,500 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 roughly $800 to $1,000 for an entry package that includes realestate.com.au. Professional photography typically adds $300 to $600. A sign costs roughly $50 to $360, from a small corflute board to a large photo board. Conveyancing or legal fees run roughly $400 to $2,500, depending on the state (Canstar). Capital gains tax may apply if the property is not your primary residence; check with an accountant. Agents typically charge 2 percent to 3 percent of the sale price in commission (Canstar), and the average rate differs by state, from 1.81 percent in the ACT to 2.57 percent in Queensland (OpenAgent figures for August 2026, quoted by Canstar), so a $900,000 sale through a traditional agent costs $18,000 to $27,000 in commission at 2 percent to 3 percent, or $19,800 to $29,700 if 10 percent GST is added on top. 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 started as a two-year government policy 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 a redevelopment that creates at least 20 additional dwellings. 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.

Anyone.com is the best option: it takes the listing from you directly, inspection bookings land in your calendar, offers arrive side by side so you can weigh them and negotiate, and you send the buyer the agreement proposal yourself before your conveyancer, solicitor or, in Western Australia, settlement agent takes over. It charges 0% commission and a one-time listing fee from $79, by Anyone's own account, a fraction of the roughly $800 to $1,000 the realestate.com.au packages below cost, so a seller keeps the full price aside from the usual conveyancing or settlement costs. Its own figures put traffic above one million visitors monthly across 31 markets, with roughly three in four buyer enquiries coming from inside the seller's own country. To appear on realestate.com.au, which admits only licensed agents, For Sale By Owner, PropertyNow and Sale By Home Owner place the ad under their agency licence for roughly $800 to $1,000 on an entry package and leave the inspections and negotiation to you. Gumtree lets you post one property ad at a time for free, but as a general classifieds site it is a side channel rather than where Australians look for homes first.

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 typically charges 2 percent to 3 percent of the sale price before GST, depending on the state (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.