New South Wales has passed a law that brings landlords and agents under the Australian Privacy Principles and rebuilds how you take a tenancy application. If you run an agency in New South Wales, the turnover threshold you have relied on no longer helps you. 

New South Wales has changed what a rental advertisement has to tell people. Digitally altered and AI generated photos are the part getting attention, but there are four more disclosures alongside it, and each one carries the same penalty. 

A rent roll is usually sold as a number: so many managements, times a multiplier. But the multiplier is the output of due diligence, not the input, and two books with identical income can be worth very different money. This guide sets out what to check before you sign, from verifying the income and reading the agreements through to the retention and clawback terms that decide what happens after you pay. 

Two privacy obligations land on 10 December 2026, and most of what is being written about them overstates the job. This guide sets out what the automated decision making rule actually requires, why it is a privacy policy update rather than a notice or a right to human review, where tenancy screening software fits, and the question to answer before any of it reaches your agency.

Buying or selling a real estate agency? Understand the legal process, due diligence, contracts and the common mistakes that can reduce value.

Deposit flicking explained: Understand the trust account, AML, buyer protection and disclosure issues facing real estate agencies.

Headlines this month told agency owners the small business privacy exemption is gone. It is not. What changed is that real estate became a reporting entity sector under anti-money laundering Tranche 2, and reporting entities were never inside the exemption. This guide sets out what actually applies, why it covers your anti-money laundering work rather than your whole business, and the identity document rule that runs in your favour. 

Headlines this month told agency owners the small business privacy exemption is gone. It is not. What changed is that real estate became a reporting entity sector under anti-money laundering Tranche 2, and reporting entities were never inside the exemption. This guide sets out what actually applies, why it covers your anti-money laundering work rather than your whole business, and the identity document rule that runs in your favour. 

Discover 2026 rent roll trends, buyer demand, due diligence and compliance insights to help agency owners navigate successful transactions.