HouseWorthy · Queensland buyer guide
Queensland seller disclosure.
Know what Form 2 tells you, what it does not tell you, and which checks still matter before you sign.
Effective from 1 August 2025
Form 2 is a starting point, not the whole property picture.
Queensland's statutory seller disclosure scheme generally requires a seller to give a buyer a completed Seller Disclosure Statement (Form 2) and applicable prescribed certificates before the buyer signs the contract. Read the documents early and have your solicitor check them before you commit.
Buyer warning: Form 2 itself says not to assume you can terminate after signing simply because later information is unsatisfactory. If disclosure is missing or appears inaccurate, obtain legal advice immediately.
Before you sign
Confirm you received Form 2 first
The disclosure documents must be given before the buyer signs. Keep the email or other record showing when and how they were received.
Match the property details
Check the street address, seller, lot-on-plan description and title documents refer to the property you intend to buy.
Ask your solicitor to review it
Disclosure affects contractual rights and deadlines. A conveyancing solicitor can explain the documents, exceptions and any follow-up enquiries needed for your transaction.
What the disclosure can show
Title and registered interests
The prescribed material can include a current title search and survey plan, helping identify registered interests such as easements, covenants, leases or mortgages.
Notices, orders and property information
Depending on the property, the statement and certificates may address zoning, unregistered encumbrances, relevant statutory notices, environmental matters, pool documentation, rates and water information.
Body corporate property
For an applicable community titles property, disclosure may include the community management statement and a body corporate certificate or permitted explanatory statement.
Important matters Form 2 does not cover
Flood and natural-hazard history
The scheme does not require the seller to disclose flooding or other natural-hazard history. Check council mapping and investigate insurance availability and terms yourself.
Condition, structure and pests
Do not treat disclosure as a building and pest report. It does not establish structural soundness or whether the property has pest activity.
Approvals, use, services and asbestos
The scheme does not require disclosure of all past or current building and development approvals, lawful use, planning limits, connected services or asbestos. Independent enquiries remain essential.
Independent checks to consider
Planning, council and flood
Check development constraints, overlays, approvals, notices and available flood information with the relevant council and Queensland Government sources.
Building, pest and specialist reports
Use appropriately licensed inspectors and, where the property warrants it, engineers, surveyors, pool inspectors or other specialists.
Body corporate records and insurance
For units and townhouses, investigate levies, insurance, by-laws, meeting records, maintenance plans, defects, disputes and proposed expenditure beyond the disclosure certificate.
Build the wider picture
Check the property, not only the paperwork.
HouseWorthy can organise available property, planning, hazard and council information into a clearer research starting point. It does not prepare or verify the seller's Form 2 and is not legal advice, a building inspection or a guarantee.
Updated 26 October 2026. For help with HouseWorthy, call 1300 396 585.
