Buying into and living in a residential land lease community
Buying into a residential land lease community
Buying a home in a residential land lease community means agreeing on a price and signing a contract with the operator or a current homeowner.
Voluntary sharing arrangements
Choose a voluntary sharing arrangement in a land lease community to avoid having to buy outright and pay site fees. Learn about making a ‘rent only’ site agreement with the operator.
Residents committee
Join your land lease community’s residents committee to be part of the communication channel between residents and the operator, as recognised under the community laws.
Community rules
Community rules can be important to living well in a land lease community. As an operator you can make rules about the use, enjoyment, control and management of the community.
Utilities and other charges
Learn more about paying utility and other charges directly if your land lease community operator re-supplies utilities to your residential site.
Special levies for upgrades
Work with your land lease community operator to fund upgrades and improvements to shared services and facilities through special levies under residential land lease community laws.
Site fees
Understand how your recurrent site fees in your land lease community help cover maintenance and operating costs for shared community facilities and services.
Ending the agreement
Understand your right to stay in your home in a land lease community even after the fixed term period has expired and the limited situations when your site agreement can legally end.
Selling your home
Learn about your rights under the laws to sell your home onsite even if you move out of a community. Your estate executor or beneficiary can exercise this right if you pass away.
Search the residential land lease communities register
Use the register to search for specific communities or a community operator. You can also find communities in a certain post code or local government area.
Information for operators of residential land lease communities
Education for new operators
Learn about the mandatory education briefing that all new residential land lease community operators must complete.
Conduct of operators
Understand the rules of conduct that apply to all operators of residential land lease communities.
Operator obligations to new home owners
Operators must provide new community home owners with a disclosure statement, written site agreement, condition report, cooling-off period and explain any fees and charges that apply.
Related information
Dealing with site fee increase disputes
How to deal with site fee increase disputes in a residential land lease community.
How to dispose of uncollected goods at the end of an agreement
The Uncollected Goods Act 1995 provides guidance on how to dispose of goods left behind or abandoned by an occupant or resident at the end of an agreement.
Complaints and enquiries about residential land lease communities
Ask a question or make a complaint about a residential land lease community.
Forms, model rules, notices and guides
- Change in registered details for operators
- Completion of mandatory education briefing form
- Disclosure statement
- Model community rules
- Model rules for residents committees
- Moving into a land lease community
- Notice of intended closure of residential land lease community
- Notice of site fee increase
- Notice to remedy a breach of a community rule
- Notice to terminate site agreement
- Notification of particulars form
- Rules of conduct for operators
- Standard form of site agreement
- Standard site condition report form