Conveyancing is the administrative and legal procedure involved in the transfer of ownership of property from one person to another. The law associated with conveyancing is complex. It entails a number of steps, beginning with the contract of sale and vendor's statement and ending with the settlement, stamp duty, registration of the Certificate of Title and reporting to you.

Simple, straight-forward clerical task, right? Wrong! Conveyancing isn't only about routine paperwork, ticked boxes, signatures and keys to the front door. It's a complex, exacting process comprising a range of mandatory and legal requirements. And, to complicate it further, these differ with every transaction, so there's little room for error.

Essentially, there's a lot that can go wrong and if it's not left in safe, qualified hands it sometimes does. The smallest oversight or mistake can delay the settlement or worse still, turn out to be costly. There are many cases involving both buyers and sellers paying the price (and losing thousands of dollars in the process!) for those elementary conveyancing bloopers.

The hard-earned lesson? Play it safe and entrust your conveyancing to an experienced property conveyancing lawyer.