Conveyancing in Melbourne CBD

Because everything is handled online, you deal with your lawyer by phone, email and video — no trips into the city, no time off work.

A qualified Victorian lawyer reads your contract — not a call centre. On an Melbourne CBD apartment that means the owners corporation certificate, the strata plan and the building's finances — the parts of a Section 32 that decide whether a purchase is a good one.

Government charges, search fees and stamp duty are additional and passed on at cost. Your lawyer confirms the exact figure before you commit.

Melbourne CBD is an apartment market — too few houses change hands for a median house price to be published, so the number that matters here is the unit median of $575,000. That shapes the conveyancing too: expect an owners corporation, a strata plan and a certificate to review, rather than a standalone title.

On that median unit price, Victorian stamp duty works out at roughly $29,570 at the general rate, before any first-home or off-the-plan concession — which for many buyers is the single largest cost after the property itself. Our stamp duty calculator works it out for your actual price.

Median prices for Melbourne CBD: Victorian Property Sales Report, Department of Transport and Planning, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Period: 2024. Duty is an estimate at the general rate, not advice — your lawyer confirms the figure that applies to you.