Who holds what. Consumer and Business Services registers the industry under the Land Agents Act 1994. A land agent can carry on the business; a sales representative is employed by one, and a representative registered ‘under supervision’ has to be accompanied at all times by an agent or by a representative registered for at least two years. Property managers work for land agents and are registered in their own right, while a sales representative who also manages adds the property management condition. Auctioneers must first be qualified as an agent or a representative. Registrations are now digital in the mySAGOV app, and SA.GOV.AU says agents, representatives and auctioneers must carry theirs and show it on request. Owners can look anyone up on the CBS licensing register (opens in a new tab), so each profile we build names the registration that person holds, worded as your principal wants it.
The estimate behind the advertised price. A residential sales agency agreement has to state the estimated selling price as a single dollar figure, never a range, and list the recent comparable sales or other information the agent relied on. That figure, or the vendor's price where it's higher, is the floor for any advertised price. A breach of section 24A carries a maximum penalty of $20,000 or a year's imprisonment, and the agent can't demand, receive or keep commission or expenses on that sale. The rules are under review, too: in September 2026 the Legislative Council's Select Committee on the Conduct of Real Estate Professionals (opens in a new tab) called for submissions, which closed on 23 October, on underquoting, inaccurate appraisals, non-disclosure of building faults and rent bidding, among other things.
Offers, auctions and cooling off. In a sale by offer the buyer has two clear working days to cool off, counted from whichever comes later, signing the contract or receiving the Form 1. There's no cooling-off at auction or for a purchase made after the auction on the same day, and a buyer waiving it on a pre-auction offer needs an independent legal practitioner to sign the prescribed form first. The R3 must be available from the agent at least three working days before an auction, and the auctioneer can place up to three vendor bids, each below the reserve and announced as a vendor bid. A buyer's guide page in your own words, linking to SA.GOV.AU's offers and auctions page (opens in a new tab), answers the questions first-time buyers otherwise ring your agents about on a Saturday.
Planning questions about older suburbs. Development across metropolitan Adelaide is assessed against one state-wide Planning and Design Code (opens in a new tab), and the free South Australian Property and Planning Atlas (opens in a new tab) shows the zone and overlays for any address, parcel or title number. PlanSA has described the Historic Area Overlay as giving clear controls for demolition applications that weigh historic importance, structural condition and whether restoration is viable, which is the first thing a buyer looking at a knock-down will ask about. A listing can point to the atlas rather than paraphrase zoning in the description. Suburb pages follow the same thinking: owners search for an agent in Glenelg or Mawson Lakes rather than in Holdfast Bay or Salisbury council, so we title pages by suburb and mention the council in the text.
The rent roll. At the 2021 Census, 27.6% of South Australia's occupied private dwellings were rented, and CBS put Adelaide's vacancy rate below 1 per cent when rent bidding was banned in 2023. Since 1 January 2026 every applicant has to complete their own Form A1, the single application form set in the regulations, so check that the application platform your Apply button opens has switched to it. Our property manager page covers what a landlord-facing site needs.
Working with us. We're an Adelaide web design team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St. Most of our work runs by phone and email, which suits agents who spend Saturdays at opens and auctions, though an Adelaide office that wants to sit down before starting can arrange that. We haven't built an agency site yet, and we'd rather say so here than have you find out later. The draft link goes to your principal for sign-off, and nothing is owed until it's approved.