Legal help to buy or sell your home or land

Do you want to buy or sell a home or other real estate? CKB Lawyers is here to help you buy a home or land, or to sell your property and to minimise the stress. Call us on 02 8014 5839

CKB provides expert help for you to buy or sell real estate, including houses, home units or commercial property. Buying or selling property is a major financial transaction and can be stressful, particularly when you are buying a home to live in.

What CKB will do for you:

Advise you in relation to the contract for the sale or purchase. We negotiate any changes to the contract that are needed
Check the title to the property
Arrange any necessary investigations about the property with government departments
If you are buying, we will recommend to you any appropriate building and pest reports or Strata record inspections. With your approval we arrange those inspections
For buyers, CKB prepares the appropriate title transfer documents to ensure that you become the registered owners of the property after settlement
Assist sellers in obtaining a Tax Office capital gains withholding tax clearance or a variation. That certificate is now required for all properties sold for a price of over $750,000.00. If the certificate is not obtained then the purchaser has to deduct 12.5% of the price and pay that amount to the Tax Office
Assist buyers complete their stamp duty declaration forms
Calculate the adjustments to the price so that the buyer and the seller each pay their proper proportions of the outgoings such as council and water rates, land tax (if applicable) and any Strata levies. Normally we try and ensure that all of these expenses are paid up at the time of settlement
Liaise with the agent, any mortgagee and the other party to ensure that settlement takes place
Keep you informed of progress
Make the arrangements for settlement of the transaction with payment of all monies due, both for the traditional physical meeting and also for the new electronic settlements with PEXA
Provide you with electronic archives of your transaction documents for accounting and tax record keeping purposes

Call us now to discuss the purchase or sale of your property – 02 8014 5839 or send us an email for us to call you. Our email address is: info@ckba.com.au