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The NSW seller's checklist
Everything a private seller in New South Wales needs in place, in the order it happens. Six steps, one page. Keep it beside you from the first photo to the day you hand over the keys.
1. Before you advertise
Your contract of sale, with the prescribed documents attached, exists before you advertise anywhere: a portal, a Facebook group, a sign on the fence.
Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW), s.66R
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The prescribed documents: the title search, the deposited plan, a copy of any dealing on the title, the section 10.7 planning certificate and the sewer diagram.
House or land
Conveyancing (Sale of Land) Regulation 2022, s.52A
Ordered from the registry at cost and attached for you.
The prescribed documents: the title search, the strata plan, any dealings on the title, the section 10.7 planning certificate, the sewer diagram, and the common property certificate and by-laws.
Unit or townhouse
Conveyancing (Sale of Land) Regulation 2022, s.52A
Ordered from the registry at cost and attached for you.
Off the plan: the disclosure statement, with the draft plan and the schedule of finishes, attached to the contract.
Off the plan
Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW), s.66ZM
A pool or spa: the certificate of compliance, or the certificate of non-compliance, attached.
If there is a pool or spa
Swimming Pools Act 1992 (NSW), s.22E
Already have a contract from an agent's campaign? List it on FIND:HOME without building a new one; the documents are checked and the listing can go live.
No charge on that route.
2. Price and presentation
Set the price guide from evidence: what similar homes within a kilometre sold for in the last six months, not the number an agent said to get the listing.
The calculator shows what an agent's commission on your price would actually cost.
Photos: twelve to twenty, daylight, every room once, tidy, the best one first. A floor plan if you can get one.
The words: the facts first (beds, baths, parking, land, aspect, strata levy), then what it is like to live there. Nothing you cannot back up.
Australian Consumer Law, s.18
3. Advertising
Where private sellers get seen: the NSW FSBO Facebook groups, your own feed, WhatsApp, a sign on the fence, and a private listing that buyers ask to view.
One button posts the listing to Facebook, your group or WhatsApp.
Describe the home, never who should buy it (families, young professionals, retirees).
Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW)
4. Inspections
Fixed open times beat by-appointment: thirty minutes on Saturday, the same time each week, and one weeknight.
Have the contract available at every inspection, on paper or as a link; a buyer may ask for it.
Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW), s.66R
Booking, reminders and the contract link are handled from the listing.
Take every name and number. A person who inspected is a person to follow up within a day.
5. Offers and exchange
An offer is not a sale until contracts are exchanged. Every offer in writing, with the buyer's finance position and the settlement they want.
The buyer's solicitor reviews the contract and their questions come to yours.
A FIND:HOME contract carries Wainwright Legal's standard special conditions, so the review is short.
Cooling-off: five business days on a private treaty sale unless the buyer waives it with a section 66W certificate; 0.25% of the price is forfeited if they withdraw. Your solicitor runs the exchange.
Conveyancing Act 1919 (NSW), ss.66S to 66X
6. Settlement
Usually 42 days from exchange. Your solicitor and the buyer's settle through PEXA; keys change hands on the day.
Tell the council, the water authority, the strata manager and your lender; cancel the insurance the day after settlement, not before.
FIND:HOME does the paperwork part: the contract, the documents, the listing, the inspections and the buyer messages, for $99 to build your contract and $1,990 only if it sells through FIND:HOME. The rest is you, and it is less than you think.
General information for private sellers in NSW, not legal advice; your solicitor or conveyancer is the person for your sale. Reviewed by FIND:HOME on 23 September 2026.