Property & tenancy

6 templates and 11 guides for property & tenancy paperwork in Australia — free to read, no sign-up.

Templates

• Residential lease review checklist — A checklist of what to check before signing a residential lease — bond, condition report, special terms.
• Major domestic building contract — preparation checklist (Victoria) — What to gather and check before signing a major domestic building contract. A preparation checklist, not a contract.
• Variation record — change to scope or price — Records a change to the work and its effect on the price and the finish date, signed by both sides before the changed…
• Rental repair notice preparation (Victoria) — A preparation record for notifying a rental provider or agent about an urgent or non-urgent repair.
• Conveyancing preparation checklist — What to gather before your conveyancer or solicitor starts a property purchase or sale.
• Landscaping works agreement — smaller jobs (Victoria) — A plain-English written agreement for a smaller Victorian landscaping job: scope, price, payments, timing and how…

Guides

• What a conveyancer or solicitor does when you buy or sell property — An overview of the conveyancing process for buying or selling residential property in Australia.
• Domestic building insurance in Victoria: what it does and does not cover — Required above $16,000, taken out by the builder for you — and much narrower than most people assume.
• Building permit vs planning permit in Victoria: which one your renovation needs — Two different permits, two different questions. A planning permit asks whether the land may be used that way — issued…
• Before you sign a landscaping contract in Victoria — Deposits are capped, progress payments must track real progress, you may have five clear business days to change your…
• Taking a building dispute to VCAT in Victoria: the road, the fees, the timeline — You cannot walk straight into VCAT with a domestic building dispute — Victoria makes free BPC conciliation the…
• Check your landscaper is registered for the work (Victoria) — Registration is not one thing — it comes in classes. A practitioner can be genuinely registered and still not…
• Landscaping over $10,000 in Victoria: what the law asks — Past $10,000, a landscaping job can stop being ordinary trade work and become domestic building work — which changes…
• The VBA is now the Building and Plumbing Commission — what actually changed — Victoria's building regulator was overhauled, not renamed. The BPC merges the old VBA, the separate dispute-resolution…
• Your builder went broke, died or disappeared: the Victorian insurance claim, step by step — Victoria is mid-transition between two schemes: Domestic Building Insurance for contracts signed before 1 July 2026,…
• Owner-builder in Victoria: when you can build it yourself, and what it costs you later — Victoria lets you take responsibility for building work on your own land — but past $20,000 you need the BPC's consent…
• Renovation cost blowouts in Victoria: what a builder can and cannot charge you — Victorian law has an unusually sharp answer to undocumented extras: a builder who varies the work without the written…