Your Settlement Agent in Bickley

From offer to settlement day

Bickley is part of the Perth Hills, roughly 20 km east of the Perth CBD. The settlement side of a sale is unglamorous, deadline-driven work, and it is what Jacaranda Settlements does every day.

Our office is roughly 26 km to the west. Home appointments are usually workable, and remote settlements are just as straightforward.

Buying or selling a house is a lengthy and complex process and obtaining professional advice will help ensure your smooth and successful property settlement in Bickley. The main job of a settlement agent is to transfer the ownership of the property and depending on whether you are buying or selling has various different components.

Local knowledge that matters in Bickley

Bickley is hills country, and hills titles reward a careful read: access arrangements, easements, boundaries that follow contours rather than straight lines, and structures that may or may not have approvals.

In this part of Perth we are most often dealing with:

• properties on onsite wastewater rather than a scheme sewer connection
• transfers where the land is bush-adjacent and the title carries bushfire-related notifications
• title searches on larger and irregular parcels, including access and rights of carriageway
• easements, encumbrances and notifications registered against hills titles
• checking that sheds, workshops and other structures line up with the approvals held

For a buyer, the practical consequence is that more of the pre-settlement work in Bickley is about the land itself: what is registered on the title, what the shire has recorded, and whether the structures on the property match the approvals held for it.

So the sequence matters here. Title first, then the shire and Water Corporation enquiries, then the questions that only come up once you can see what is actually registered. Rushing that order is how a problem surfaces in the last week instead of the first.

Neighbouring areas we work in include Walliston, Carmel, Hacketts Gully, Kalamunda and Reservoir.

What we take care of for you

Settlement is a process with a fixed date and a lot of moving parts. We check the title and anything registered on it, deal with the council, Water Corporation and any strata company, complete the verification of identity requirements, prepare and lodge the transfer, arrange transfer duty through State Revenue Online, produce the settlement statement, settle, and notify the authorities of the change of ownership.

One practical tip for buyers: do not book removalists for first thing on settlement day. Settlement happens when the funds and documents are exchanged, and until it does, the keys are not yours to collect.

You will not need to attend settlement. It is completed electronically, which is now the standard process in Western Australia, and we confirm the outcome with you straight away.

The settlements we handle

We are licensed for every part of conveyancing in WA. The services clients ask for most:

• Buying – Everything from the accepted offer through to registration of your name on the title.
• Application by survivorship – Transferring a property into the surviving owner’s name.
• Court order transfers – Transfers arising from a separation or family court order.
• Transfer duty through State Revenue Online – We arrange stamping, so duty does not need to be paid before settlement.
• Lodgement at Landgate – Preparation and lodgement of documents for registration.
• Home settlements – Transfers of established houses, duplexes, townhouses and villa strata, for buyers and for sellers.

Not sure which of these applies to your situation? Call and describe the property, and we will tell you what is involved.

We can do all of this remotely

From our Myaree office it is about roughly 26 km to Bickley, so a home appointment is usually straightforward to arrange, weekends included. That covers signing the documentation and the verification of identity check required of sellers.

If it is easier, the entire settlement can be handled remotely instead, by phone, email and electronic signing, with nothing for you to attend on settlement day. Call Shelley on 0428 336 878 to talk through which works better for you.

We offer cost-effective and stress-free settlement

We are licensed in all aspects of conveyancing in Western Australia. Other services that we offer:

Questions we are asked most

What should I check on the title of a hills property?

More than you would on a standard suburban block. Access arrangements, easements, rights of carriageway and any notifications registered against the land all matter on larger hills parcels. We search the title and explain what is on it in plain terms before you are committed.

Can I use a settlement agent if there is no real estate agent involved?

Yes. Private sales are common and we handle them regularly. Without an agent in the middle, having the contract and the paperwork done properly matters more, not less.

Can you act for me if I am selling and buying at the same time?

Yes, and it is common. Where a sale and a purchase are linked, the two settlements need to be coordinated carefully, which is easier when one agent is running both.

Don’t have time to get to an office?

Our services include Bickley home appointments, including weekends to sign confusing documentation and to conduct a verification of identity check for sellers to avoid going to Australia post. However, we are also able to work remotely to do all this over the phone or in person.