Property industry regulation
- Real estate agent licence or registration
- Letting agent licence
- Auctioneer licence and registration
- Mandatory professional development for the property industry
Property industry breaches and penalties
Find information about the penalties for property industry-related offences. Learn about unlicensed work, conditional licences and other restrictions or regulations.
Property industry forms
Find a list of Fair Trading forms for the property industry.
Managing your property agency or business
- Dealing with trust accounts in the property industry
- Claim fund for the property, motor, auction and debt collector industries
- Rules about holding a licence
- Tell us of your intended place of business
- More.
Legal requirements for a property transaction
- Appointment to act as a property agent
- Charging commission for selling and letting in the property industry
- Cooling-off period for residential property contracts (for buyers only)
- Auctioning a property
- More.
Best practice for the property industry
- Dealing with complaints against your business
- Offering accommodation for major special events
- Property advertising
- Renew or restore your property licence or registration
- Update your property licence details
- Transfer to a Queensland property licence
- Conditional licences for the property industry
- More.
Find out if your property agent has a valid licence. You can do a search on our free online register or apply for a formal record of search.
Office of Fair Trading
Get ready for mandatory continuing professional development (CPD)
From 7 June 2025 Queensland real estate agents and auctioneers will need to complete annual CPD training to maintain their licence or registration. Read more about mandatory CPD for the property industry.
Do it online
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