Letter · Residential Conveyancing & Property
Letter of advice to a residential purchaser on the contract and searches before exchange (NSW)
Pre-exchange letter to a NSW residential purchaser: key terms, cooling-off, title and search results, risks, special conditions to negotiate and what the client must do before exchange, with deadlines.
- Kind
- Letter. A letter or email you adapt and send.
- Where it applies
- New South Wales
- AI use
- Yellow AI can help in set ways. A lawyer checks specific points before use.
- Law stated as at
- 17 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked against the cited sources on 17 October 2026.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use after reviewing the contract, title and searches and before the purchaser exchanges or gives a s 66W certificate. Adapt it for off the plan contracts, strata lots and auction purchases; it is not a substitute for a separate strata or building report review.
How AI may be used
AI may extract terms and draft sections of the letter from the contract and searches; the lawyer verifies every fact against the source, decides what matters and settles the advice.
AI may
- Extract price, deposit, completion date, inclusions, special conditions and title entries into the tables, with clause and page references.
- Draft plain-English explanations of special conditions for the lawyer to check.
- Compare the contract against the client's purchase instructions and list mismatches.
AI must not
- Must not give the advice in the "Our view" sections or rank risks without lawyer review.
- Must not state a transfer duty figure; set out inputs only and direct the lawyer to Revenue NSW.
- Must not send the letter to the client without the lawyer signing off.
The lawyer checks
- Every clause reference and figure has been checked against the contract.
- Each title entry and search result is described accurately and its effect explained.
- Deadlines (cooling-off end, finance, 14-day rescission for missing documents) are confirmed.
- Advice is consistent with the client's stated purpose (home, investment, development).
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
Read the full text
The full text is for signed-in accounts. It is free. When you sign in you can:
- read the whole precedent, with its drafting notes beside it;
- copy it, or download it as a Word file or Markdown;
- add it to your firm’s knowledge base, so colleagues can find it;
- let the AI tools you connect read it from that knowledge base.
The summary, the law it rests on and the AI-use guidance above stay public. Privacy.
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