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LJ Hooker is Australia's most iconic real estate brand and with over 90 years experience, we've been successfully helping people buy Australian real estate for generations. We have an extensive library of articles, checklists, ebooks and online tools to help you find answers to all of your questions.

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Key Tips to Add Value To Your Home
Buy Sell Renovate
| Riley Howe | 4 mins
Key Tips to Add Value To Your Home
Discover smart, practical tips to enhance your home's value and effectively prepare for an appraisal. Read here!
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Understanding Strata Fees: Costs, Inclusions and Benefits
Invest Buy
| Katrina Creer | 5 mins
Understanding Strata Fees: Costs, Inclusions and Benefits
Strata levies or body corporate fees got you puzzled? Learn about costs, what’s included (and not), and everything else you need to know in this guide.
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How Australian Families Are Rethinking the Family Home
Buy Sell Insights
| Katrina Creer | 3 mins
How Australian Families Are Rethinking the Family Home
A new survey by LJ Hooker has highlighted what features make a property more attractive and some major turn-offs.
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Navigating the Australian Property Market - Trends for Buying and Selling
Buy Sell
| Katrina Creer | 3 mins
Navigating the Australian Property Market - Trends for Buying and Selling
A new survey, conducted by LJ Hooker, found the way Australians buy and sell property is evolving with the increasing accessibility of digital platforms.
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Australians Still Dreaming of Homeownership Despite Market Challenge
Buy Sell
| Katrina Creer | 3 mins
Australians Still Dreaming of Homeownership Despite Market Challenge
Despite rising property prices and mortgage pressures, a new survey by LJ Hooker shows the desire to own property has not waned, indicating the Great Australian Dream is well and truly alive.
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Inside Australia’s Most Lavish Homes – Trends and Performance
Buy Sell Insights
| Katrina Creer | 5 mins
Inside Australia’s Most Lavish Homes – Trends and Performance
Explore Australia’s most prestigious homes with LJ Hooker, from record-breaking sales to luxury property trends, uncover what’s driving the high-end market in 2025.
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Buying guides for your State or Territory

When it comes to buying real estate each State and Territory has different rules and regulations. To help you navigate the buying process in your local area we have compiled the following step by step guides to buying property.

These in-depth guides walk you through the different ways you can buy property, where to do your local research, where to home hunt, what government websites are useful, what must go in your contracts of sale, what costs you will need to pay as these vary across Australia and what happens at time of settlement. 

Select your State or Territory and get up to speed on all you need to know about buying property. 

Australian Capital Territory New South Wales Northern Territory Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia

Checklists, eBooks and FAQs

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Buy Sell
Complete Moving Guide
Moving into your new home is an exciting experience. It’s a fresh start in a brand new property that you can customise and call your own.
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Sell Lifestyle
A Home That Looks Like You
DIY enthusiast Geneva Vanderzeil is all about creating beautiful spaces that are unique and individual.
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Buy Sell Checklist
9 Essential Apartment Inspection Checklists
Discover the best way to thoroughly inspect an apartment, perfect for those inspecting a property for sale in person or remotely.
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Buying Real Estate FAQs
Buying a new property is both daunting and exciting, a true mixed bag of emotions. LJ Hooker, with offices across most of Australia's major cities, towns and suburbs are here to help you.
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Why buy with LJ Hooker
Why Buy with LJ Hooker
Buying a property can be a daunting prospect, especially if this is your first home purchase. Between open houses to visit, thousands of print and online advertisements to read and significant financial decisions to make, it is easy to feel overwhelmed.
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First Home Buyer FAQs
Buying a new property is both daunting and exciting - it is a true mixed bag of emotions. LJ Hooker, with offices across most of Australia's major cities, towns and suburbs are are to help you.
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