Best FSBO websites in Australia

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. Domain.com.au does allow private sellers to list directly without an intermediary.

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 charge nothing. 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 nothing: where the fixed-fee services above run $395 to $969 for portal placement, the cost it states for listing, and for completing the sale, is zero to the owner. Identity checks on buyers, inquiry handling, and settlement preparation are included in that picture, by the company's telling, across a marketplace it counts at 29 countries; country-level traffic data for Australia is something it does not publish, which leaves its local reach unproven. That is why a free listing and one of the fixed-fee portal placements tend to travel together, with the flat charge of $395 to $969 standing as the only platform money at stake.

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 Trying to draft these yourself risks a defective contract that can be rescinded.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.

Foreign buyers can purchase Australian property but must apply for approval from the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) before signing a contract. Approval fees start at $14,100 for residential property under $1 million (as of 2024-25 rates) and the process takes up to 30 days. If you want to market to international buyers, realestate.com.au and Domain are domestic portals only. Cross-border platforms that operate across multiple countries give you that exposure, so the property is visible to overseas buyers as well as domestic ones.

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.