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Standard form contracts

Authored by Dr Stephen Pallavicini, Lead Property Lawyer, Marie Boustani, Property Lawyer, Woolworths Group Ltd and Sara Hatcher, Consulting Principal, Keypoint Law (NSW); Lisa Gaddie, Partner, Lander & Rogers (Vic); Luckbir Singh, Partner, MacDonnells Law, Despina Priala, Priala Legal and Simon LaBlack, Director, LaBlack Lawyers (Qld); Gary Thomas, Special Counsel, Anthony Davis, Director, McWilliams Lawyers and Katie Loughridge, formerly of Australian Government Solicitor office (WA); Philip Page, Retired Partner, Mellor Olsson and Constantine Costi, Principal, Costi & Co Commercial Lawyers (SA); Tim Tierney, Principal and Sebastian Thomas-Wilson, Principal, Tierney Law (Tas); Tony Morgan, Partner, Andrew Giles, Senior Associate, HWL Ebsworth and Lyn Bennett, Consultant, Minter Ellison; Leon Loganathan, Managing Partner, Ward Keller (NT); Christine Murray, Managing Partner, Stephanie Lynch, Partner, Meyer Vandenberg Lawyers and Duncan Webber, Partner, Moray & Agnew (ACT). Updated by the LexisNexis Legal Writer team.

Standard form contracts for each jurisdiction

Each jurisdiction has one or more standard form contracts that are widely used by lawyers, conveyancers and/or real estate agents and which are published by the law society, real estate institute and conveyancing institute within that jurisdiction. The following table sets out the most used standard form contracts within each jurisdiction:

Jurisdiction Title of contract documents Publisher(s) Current version How to purchase editable versions of the contract documents
New South Wales Contract for the sale and purchase of land 2022 edition (NSW) Law Society of New South Wales (LSNSW) and the Real Estate Institute of New South Wales 2022 Editable version is available for purchase from the LSNSW website.
Victoria Contract of sale of land Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) and the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) September 2025 Available for viewing and purchase via the LIV’s website and their partner elawforms — online legal publishing.
Queensland Qld — Contract for the Sale and Purchase of Residential Real Estate — First Edition Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) and Queensland Law Society (QLS) 1 August 2025 — first editions Available to QLS members from its website. Available to purchase in hardcopy from the REIQ’s website.
Western Australia WA — Joint form of general conditions for the sale of land (2022 general conditions) Law Society of Western Australia (LSWA) and Real Estate Institute of Western Australia (REIWA) 2022 Available to LSWA members from its website. Available to purchase as a pack for non-strata or strata land sales, from the REIWA’s website.

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