Conveyancing solicitors — Margate

Conveyancing solicitors for Margate and Woody Point

Fixed-fee conveyancing for Margate, Woody Point and Clontarf — sales $990, purchases $1,499, inclusive of GST, from our office at Scarborough.

Fixed fee: $990 sale · $1,499 purchase, inc. GST
Free contract review before you sign
No Charge Guarantee if your contract falls over

Erin Wilkinson, Solicitor at Coastside Law

Your matter is handled by Erin Wilkinson

Solicitor · lives in Golden Beach

Call Erin: 0488 340 853

Mon–Fri 8:30am–5pm · after-hours by arrangement

What local clients say

Verbatim from our Google Business Profile.

“Erin was fantastic to work with on a property purchase! Couldn’t recommend highly enough!”
Joshua Harriss · Google review
“Mike Klein has done our property settlements for the past 25 years. Excellent service and he is very knowledgeable. Great price point as well. Highly recommend using Mike”
Jeanne Carpenter · Google review
“Erin at Coastside Law was fantastic to work with when purchasing my first home. Her knowledge and guidance made the whole process so much easier, and she was always helpful and professional. I’m so grateful for her support and would highly recommend Erin to anyone buying a home!”
Kimberley Hall · Google review

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What's included in your fixed fee

Solicitor review of your contract, with advice before and after you sign
Managing finance, building and pest and other condition dates
Ordering and reviewing property searches
Liaising with the agent, your lender and the other side
Transfer documents and stamp duty paperwork (buyers)
Electronic settlement through PEXA and settlement-day updates

No hidden extras. Searches, registration and government fees are passed on at cost and itemised in writing before you commit.

No Charge Guarantee

If your contract is terminated under cooling off, finance or building and pest, you pay no professional fee.

Free contract review before you sign — sale or purchase
Terminated in the cooling-off period? No professional fee
Finance not approved? No professional fee
Building and pest report unsatisfactory? No professional fee
You pay only for searches and disbursements already ordered, at cost

How it works — 4 simple steps

1
Send us the contract
Before or straight after you sign. We check it and confirm your fixed fee in writing.
2
Searches and conditions
We order searches and keep finance and building and pest dates on track.
3
Finance and paperwork
We work with your lender or the buyer's, and prepare transfer documents.
4
Settlement day
We settle electronically through PEXA and call you when it's done.

What we check on a Margate contract

Older housing stock

Council approval searches for extensions, decks and carports, plus asbestos and safety switch disclosure obligations for sellers.

Sales under a power of attorney

We check that the attorney has the power to sell, that the conflict transaction rules are satisfied and that the paperwork will not be challenged later.

Real local solicitors

Practising solicitors, members of the Queensland Law Society
Erin: years as a South East Queensland conveyancer before admission
Michael: practising since 2003, former managing partner of GKS Law

Sunshine Coast: 40 Theresa Street, Golden Beach QLD 4551

Moreton Bay: 15 Fortune Street, Scarborough QLD 4020 (by appointment)

Margate conveyancing questions

Can my attorney sign the contract if my parent has gone into care?

An attorney under a valid enduring power of attorney can usually sell, but the conflict transaction rules apply and any benefit flowing to the attorney or their family needs express authority. We check the document and the circumstances before the property is listed, which avoids the sale unravelling later.

Who does conveyancing in Margate?

Coastside Law does. We are a solicitor-run Queensland practice with offices at 40 Theresa Street, Golden Beach and on the Redcliffe Peninsula, acting for buyers and sellers in Margate on fixed fees ($990 for a sale, $1,499 for a purchase, both inclusive of GST). Call 0488 340 853 or send us the contract before you sign it.

How much does conveyancing cost in Margate?

Our fixed professional fee is $990 inclusive of GST for a residential sale and $1,499 inclusive of GST for a residential purchase. Searches, registration fees and transfer duty are additional third-party or government charges, and we set them out in writing before you engage us.

Solicitor or conveyancer — does it matter in Queensland?

Queensland does not licence non-lawyer conveyancers the way New South Wales and Victoria do; a property transfer here is legal work done by a law practice. The difference shows up when a file turns awkward — a caveat, a deceased estate on the title, a family transfer with a duty question, a contract that needs terminating. We deal with all of it in-house rather than referring you on.

More about conveyancing in Margate

Coastside Law is a Queensland law practice doing conveyancing in Margate. Conveyancing Margate and Margate conveyancing are handled by an admitted solicitor — not a processing centre — on a fixed fee of $990 inclusive of GST for a residential sale and $1,499 inclusive of GST for a purchase, plus searches and government charges at cost. Contract review before you sign is free, settlement runs electronically through PEXA, and you can reach us on 0488 340 853.

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A solicitor, not a processing centre

Your file is run by an admitted Queensland solicitor who can give you legal advice on the contract, not a paralegal in a call centre who can only move paperwork.

Local, not national

We work from the peninsula and the Sunshine Coast. We know the councils, the overlays, the body corporates and the local agents — because we deal with them every week.

Fixed fees, quoted in writing

No 'from' pricing that grows at settlement. You get the professional fee in writing before we start, with searches and government fees itemised.

Free contract review before you sign

Send the contract through and we will read it and tell you what needs changing — at no cost and with no obligation to instruct us.

Margate, Woody Point and Clontarf are older peninsula suburbs where the housing stock predates most current approvals. Renovated and extended post-war homes are the norm, and so are extensions, carports and decks that were never formally approved.

The other pattern here is the long-held family home being sold by an executor or by an ageing owner moving into care. Both bring extra steps: proving authority to sell, powers of attorney used correctly, and making sure a sale under an enduring power of attorney does not create a conflict transaction that a family member can later attack.

Unit and townhouse stock along the waterfront needs full body corporate searches — sinking fund, levies, insurance and any building defect or special levy history — before the finance date, not the week of settlement.

Unit and townhouse purchases

Body corporate records, levy arrears, special levies and defect history reviewed before your finance date.

Contract review before you sign

We read the contract, the disclosure statement and any special conditions before you commit. Once signed, your options narrow to the cooling-off period and whatever conditions are already in the document.

Critical dates managed

Cooling-off, building and pest, finance and settlement dates are diarised and chased. Most disputes we are asked to fix started as a missed or badly worded extension.

Settlement through PEXA

Electronic settlement with funds and title transferring online, adjustments for rates, water and body corporate levies calculated and checked.

What about the seller disclosure statement?

Since 1 August 2025 a seller must give the buyer a completed Form 2 seller disclosure statement, with the prescribed certificates attached, before the contract is signed. Get it wrong and the buyer may be able to terminate right up to settlement. We prepare the Form 2 for sellers and check it carefully for buyers.

Do I have to come into an office?

No. Queensland residential settlements run electronically through PEXA, so there is no cheque handover. You complete a verification of identity and sign a client authorisation, and the file runs from there. Our peninsula office at 15 Fortune Street, Scarborough QLD 4020 is available by appointment if you would rather meet in person.

We act on property across Margate and Woody Point, Clontarf, Redcliffe, Scarborough, Kippa-Ring, Newport from 15 Fortune Street, Scarborough QLD 4020. Erin Wilkinson will usually run your file.

Who will act for you

Michael Klein

Legal Practice Director

Admitted 2003. Based in Redcliffe, Moreton Bay.

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Erin Wilkinson

Solicitor

Admitted 2025. Based in Golden Beach, Caloundra.

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