Real estate trust accounting for Queensland agencies
From the Gold Coast to Cairns, we handle trust accounting for Queensland agencies so your team can focus on listings and property management, not reconciliations.
Compliant with QLD requirements
Every QLD real estate agency must run its trust account in line with the Agents Financial Administration Act 2014, with oversight from the Queensland Office of Fair Trading. We configure your accounts correctly, reconcile daily and maintain the documentation that keeps you inspection-ready and makes audit time straightforward.
Daily receipting & reconciliation
Your QLD trust account receipted and reconciled every day, with anything that needs attention flagged before it becomes a problem.
Audit preparation
We keep your accounts configured and documented to satisfy the Queensland Office of Fair Trading, so audits are a formality rather than a scramble.
EOM & disbursements
End-of-month processing, owner and creditor payments and ad-hoc disbursements handled accurately on your behalf.
What's different about trust accounting in Queensland
Trust accounting rules are set state by state, and the differences are more than cosmetic — they change when money has to move and when reports fall due. Here's what QLD asks of you.
| Regulator | the Queensland Office of Fair Trading |
|---|---|
| Governing legislation | Agents Financial Administration Act 2014 |
| Bonds lodged with | the Residential Tenancies Authority (RTA) |
| Bond lodgement deadline | Within 10 days of receiving the bond |
| Trust audit year | Twelve months, ending in the month set by your licence issue date |
| Audit lodgement | Audit report or statutory declaration lodged within four months after your audit period ends |
Queensland does not put every agency on a 30 June year. Your audit period is 12 months long, and where it ends depends on the month your licence was issued. The report is then due four months after the period ends, which lands in your licence month. An agency licensed in October, for example, runs a 1 July to 30 June audit period and lodges by 31 October. Two Queensland agencies can have different deadlines, and an agency operating across the border cannot assume the NSW dates apply. Queensland also requires the auditor to carry out two unannounced examinations during a 12-month audit period, and the annual report has to state, month by month, whether the trust cash book, the trust bank account and the trust ledgers were reconciled.
General information current as at September 2026, not legal advice — always confirm against the regulator. Source: Queensland Government — trust account audits for the property industry.
Serving agencies across Queensland
From Brisbane, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast and Cairns, we support QLD agencies of every size — whether you manage under 100 properties or several thousand.
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