Settlement Agent Armadale

Buying or selling in Armadale? Here is what settlement involves

Armadale sits roughly 25 km south-east of the Perth CBD, in Perth’s south-eastern suburbs. Once an offer on a Armadale property is accepted, the transaction moves from the real estate agent to a settlement agent, and that is where we come in.

We are in Myaree, roughly 22 km to the north-west. Call us to arrange a home appointment, or we can run the settlement by phone and email start to finish.

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 Armadale. 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.

The local detail behind your settlement

Armadale is on Perth’s growing edge, where a meaningful share of transactions are vacant land, house-and-land packages and homes only a few years old rather than long-established properties.

That has a direct effect on timing. Where a contract is conditional on titles issuing, the settlement date is set by when the plan is registered and the title is created, not by a date in the contract, and that date can move. We track it, keep your lender informed and give you as much notice as we can.

Settlements we regularly handle around here include:

  • keeping finance approval valid while titles are pending
  • vacant land purchases where the title has not yet issued
  • house-and-land contracts and the timing between land settlement and build start
  • new-lot titles created from a deposited or survey-strata plan
  • first home buyer duty concessions and grant timing, confirmed with RevenueWA

Practically, that means we keep an eye on the plan and the title rather than waiting to be told, keep your lender informed so finance does not lapse, and give you realistic notice rather than optimistic notice about when settlement is likely to happen.

The same applies in the surrounding suburbs: Mount Nasura settlements, Mount Richon, Seville Grove, Brookdale and Kelmscott.

What a settlement agent actually does

Once a contract is signed, a series of searches, enquiries and payments have to happen in the right order. Searching the title and any restrictions on it, arranging for anything that should not stay on the title to be removed, obtaining rates, water and levy figures, preparing the settlement statement and the transfer, attending to duty, completing settlement and notifying the authorities afterwards, all sit with us rather than with you.

The dates that catch people out are usually not the settlement date. Finance and building inspection conditions have their own deadlines earlier in the contract, and missing one of those causes far more trouble than anything that happens in the final week.

The one thing we ask is that you come back to us quickly when we need something. Everything else, including settlement itself, is handled at our end.

Settlement services we provide

Whatever the property is, the settlement work is covered:

  • Lodgement at Landgate – Preparation and lodgement of documents for registration.
  • Vacant land settlements – Land purchases and sales, including contracts that are conditional on the title issuing.
  • Home settlements – Transfers of established houses, duplexes, townhouses and villa strata, for buyers and for sellers.
  • Buying – Everything from the accepted offer through to registration of your name on the title.
  • Transfer duty through State Revenue Online – We arrange stamping, so duty does not need to be paid before settlement.
  • Strata settlements – Apartments, villas and survey-strata lots, including strata information and levy adjustments.
  • Selling – Private homes, commercial property and deceased estates, with documents signed at a time that suits you.

If what you need is not on that list, ask anyway. Most property questions have a straightforward answer, and it costs nothing to find out.

Distance is not a problem

Armadale is roughly 22 km from our Myaree office, which is comfortably within reach for a home appointment. We can come to you, including on weekends, to sign documentation and complete the verification of identity check that sellers need.

Just as often, clients here prefer to do the whole thing by phone and email, and that works perfectly well. Documents can be sent, explained over the phone and signed electronically, and settlement itself is completed online, so there is nothing to attend. Whichever suits you better, call Shelley on 0428 336 878 and we will set it up.

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

Settlements

  • Houses
  • Vacant Land
  • Duplex
  • Townhouse and Villa Strata

Selling a House

  • Private Homes
  • Commercial properties
  • Estates

Title Searches

  • Shelley can search for titles and pass that information onto you
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Lodgement of documentation

  • Lodgement of documentation at Landgate
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Court Order Transfers

  • For Material Separation
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Green Tie

  • Green Tie and Strata Title Subdivision
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Quick answers before you call

Am I eligible for first home buyer concessions?

That depends on the property, the price and your circumstances, and the rules are set by RevenueWA rather than by us. Tell us what you are buying and we will point you to the current position rather than quoting figures that change.

Do I have to attend settlement?

No. Settlements in Western Australia are completed electronically, so neither buyers nor sellers attend in person. We complete it online and confirm it with you as soon as it is done.

What does a settlement agent cost for a Armadale property?

Our fee depends on the property and what the transaction involves, so we quote before you commit. Ask for a quote and you will get a clear figure rather than an estimate that moves later.

Don’t have time to get to an office?

Our services include Armadale 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.

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Talk to Shelley about your Armadale settlement

If your Armadale offer has just been accepted, congratulations, and the next call is to us. The sooner we have the contract, the sooner searches and enquiries are underway and the less pressure there is later.

Call Shelley on 0428 336 878 or request a quote online.