If you're selling in Queensland, your biggest cost will usually be your agent's commission. According to internal data, it averages 2.48 per cent of the sale price, including GST, or about $19,840 on an $800,000 home.

Conveyancing adds about $900 to $1,900, and the rest depends on whether you sell at auction, the marketing you choose and what your home needs before sale.

Here's what each cost of selling a house in Queensland covers, and which ones are set by law. For a figure based on your own home, try our selling costs calculator.

What does it cost to sell a house in Queensland?

Commission figures are from internal data, 1 January 2025 to 1 October 2026. The others come from our own cost guides (linked below), the government's 2026-27 fees and PEXA's price list.

The law sets some of these, including the government's $248.04 registration fee. It also requires most sellers to give a disclosure statement, and every seller to have compliant smoke alarms and, if they have a pool, a pool safety certificate or notice. Commission, conveyancing and marketing are set by each business, so they're worth comparing.

What would it cost on an $800,000 home?

As an example, say you sell for $800,000 at the Queensland average commission, pay a middle-priced conveyancing fee and have a Westpac home loan to pay off:

• Commission at 2.48 per cent: $19,840, including GST
• Conveyancing, including the disclosure statement: $1,650 (the middle published price)
• Disclosure searches: about $126 to $400
• Registering the mortgage release: $248.04
• Your lender's discharge fee: $350 (Westpac's, on most of its home loans, October 2026)
• Electronic settlement (PEXA): $147.40, if it's passed on to you

That comes to about $22,400 to $22,600, before marketing, any auctioneer and anything your home needs to meet the rules on smoke alarms or pools.

Conveyancing and government fees in Queensland

Conveyancing is the legal process of transferring the ownership of a house from seller to buyer. If you pay someone to do it in Queensland, it'll be a lawyer, because the state has no licensed conveyancers.

Published legal fees for a home sale run from $914 to $1,899, and the main government fee is $248.04 to register your mortgage release.

How much does a conveyancer cost in Queensland?

Law firms' published prices, collected in our guide to conveyancing costs, put a Queensland home sale at $914 to $1,899, including GST (4 businesses, October 2026). That includes preparing the seller disclosure statement (Form 2). For the conveyancing alone, fees were $619 to $1,500.

Searches and government fees are extra. Most firms that publish a price charge a fixed fee, so ask what it leaves out.

What fees come on top of conveyancing?

Disbursements are fees your lawyer may need to pay to others on your behalf, such as disclosure searches. In Queensland, those searches were about $126 to $400 in October 2026.

Paying off your mortgage at settlement, the day ownership passes to the buyer, brings two fees. Your lender charges a discharge fee (Westpac's was $350 on most of its home loans in October 2026), and Titles Queensland charges $248.04 for 2026-27 to register the release of your mortgage.

In most states, sales now settle through an online platform such as PEXA. PEXA charges $147.40 including GST to transfer one title, and some firms pass it on to you.

Before you sign up with a firm, ask for a written quote that lists what's included and the disbursements on top. It's worth asking, because law firms don't have to give you a written costs estimate when their fee is not likely to be more than $1,500, before GST and disbursements.

Requirements for conveyancing in Queensland

Since 1 August 2025, most sellers must give the buyer a seller disclosure statement (Form 2) before the buyer signs the contract. It sets out key facts about the property and must come with a title search and survey plan.

At an auction, you need to give it to registered bidders before the auction starts. For anyone who registers later, you also need to have it, or a link to it, on display throughout the auction.

The buyer can end the contract before settlement if the statement or a required certificate is missing, or is wrong about something important that they didn't know about and that would have stopped them signing. So it's worth lining up your lawyer before you list.

Queensland law allows you to do your own conveyancing, but legal professionals have indemnity insurance in case something goes wrong.

Cooling-off period

In Queensland, your buyer gets a cooling-off period of 5 business days, starting when they receive a copy of the contract signed by you and the buyer. A buyer who pulls out in that time can lose up to 0.25 per cent of the price, which you can keep from their deposit.

Buyers can waive or shorten the period in writing. There's no cooling-off period when a property sells at auction. The same goes for a registered bidder who signs by 5pm on the second clear business day after it's passed in, meaning it didn't sell at the auction.

How much is agent commission in Queensland?

According to internal data, the average real estate agent commission in Queensland is 2.48 per cent, including GST. Your rate could be as low as 1.54 per cent or as high as 3.45 per cent, depending on the agent, the location, the market and the type of property you're selling.

In the city of Brisbane, you could expect to pay roughly 2.42 per cent in commission. In Cairns, it's around 2.61 per cent.

On a home sold for $1 million, commission would be about $24,200 in Brisbane or $26,100 in Cairns, including GST. Across the areas listed under "Location of property" further down, it runs from about $22,300 on the Gold Coast to $29,100 in Gladstone. There's more on what agents charge, and how to compare quotes, in our Queensland commission guide.

Most agents charge a percentage of the sale price. Some agents charge a set dollar fee instead, and some use a tiered rate, which rises on the part of the price above an agreed amount.

You'll find the commission, including GST, on the appointment form (Form 6), the agreement you sign to appoint your agent.

Other fees to consider when selling your house in QLD

Clearance certificate. If you're an Australian resident, you'll need a free clearance certificate from the ATO, and to give it to the buyer before settlement. Without one, the buyer must hold back up to 15 per cent of the price and pay it to the ATO.

If you own the home with someone else, you each need one. It can take up to 28 days, so apply as soon as you're thinking of selling.

How much does an auctioneer cost?

In Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, auctioneers who publish their prices charge $700 to $1,100 to run an auction at your home (October 2026). We couldn't find a Queensland auctioneer who publishes a price.

Your agent often books the auctioneer, so the fee may already be in their quote. Check your agent's appointment form, and ask if it isn't listed.

How much does marketing cost?

Agents quote marketing per campaign, so the cost depends on the photos, online listings, signboards and print you choose. In Queensland it's usually charged on top of commission, with the amount set out on your agent's appointment form. Ask for an itemised quote before you sign.

What do you still pay if your home doesn't sell?

On the standard appointment form, you pay commission if a contract is signed and the sale settles. If your form makes it payable at some other time (the "Other" option), check what happens when a sale doesn't settle, because the agent may still ask for commission.

Either way, you'll still need to pay for the marketing you authorised and any other fees the form lists, such as an auctioneer's, when they fall due. For marketing, that's only what was actually spent, up to the amount on the form.

Before you sign with an agent, ask

• Is the auctioneer's fee included in your quote?
• Is the marketing itemised, with a set amount on the appointment form?
• If the commission is tiered, at what price does the higher rate start?
• Does the rate you've been quoted include GST?
• Will the commission, the marketing amount and any auctioneer's fee all be written into the appointment form?

What do smoke alarms and pool safety cost?

When you sell a home in Queensland, it must have compliant smoke alarms: photoelectric, interconnected (when one sounds, they all do), and hardwired or powered by a built-in 10-year battery.

They go in every bedroom, in the hallway outside the bedrooms (or between the bedrooms and the rest of the home), and on the most likely path to an exit on any storey without bedrooms.

You must also tell the buyer in writing whether the alarms comply by the day they take possession. From 1 January 2027, every Queensland home needs them, sale or not.

If yours need replacing, most installers charge about $480 to $590 to fit four alarms in a single-storey, three-bedroom house, according to our guide to pre-sale repair costs.

If you have a pool, give the buyer a pool safety certificate before they sign. Without one, give them a notice (Form 36) before they sign, saying there isn't one, and send the notice to the Queensland Building and Construction Commission.

The pool still has to meet the safety standard, and with a notice, the buyer must get a certificate within 90 days of settlement. Pool safety inspectors charge $110 to $155 for the inspection.

What does it cost to get your home ready?

If you're thinking about staging, full packages for a three-bedroom home in Brisbane had starting prices of $3,699 to $4,300 in October 2026. A basic garden tidy starts at $70 to $90 at most businesses that publish a price, though a one-off visit can cost more.

If your home needs small repairs, a handyman charges about $80 to $165 an hour on published rates across Australia, often with a call-out fee or a minimum charge.

Once you've sold, expect to pay removalists about $170 an hour for two movers and a truck on a weekday.

Factors that can alter the cost of selling a house in QLD

Method of sale (private or auction)

Selling at auction can cost more than a private sale, because you may pay an auctioneer and run a bigger campaign.

Property type

If your home is unusual, or is only going to appeal to a small number of buyers, it can be challenging to sell. Your agent may have to work harder to find a buyer and may charge more for their time.

Property value

Some agents may accept a lower commission rate on a higher-priced home. In Brisbane, for example, commission averaged 2.98 per cent on homes that sold for up to $500,000, and 2.34 per cent on homes that sold for between $1 million and $1.25 million.

Location of property

According to internal data, you'll tend to pay a lower rate in the south-east than in regional Queensland. Brisbane averages 2.42 per cent and the Gold Coast 2.23 per cent, compared with Rockhampton (2.82 per cent), Bundaberg (2.89 per cent) and Gladstone (2.91 per cent).