Buying: what to check, and in what order買受：查核事項及其順序

A car space is verified by making five documents agree with each other: the contract (which names the lots being sold, and only those), the title search (which confirms the lot, the owner and every encumbrance), the registered survey plan (which shows whether the lot is defined in parts), the community management statement (Schedule E and the plan attached to it), and the body corporate certificate (which states the by-laws and the exclusive use areas). No single document proves the car space, and the agent's floor plan proves less than nothing.車位的查證在於使五份文件彼此一致：契約（僅載明所出售的單元）、產權查詢（確認單元、所有權人及一切負擔）、已登記的測量圖（顯示單元是否由數部分構成）、社區管理聲明（附表E及其所附圖說），以及業主法人團體證明書（載明管理規約及專用使用區域）。沒有任何單一文件足以證明車位權屬，而仲介所提供的樓層平面圖，其證明力更在其下。

The guide sets out six steps: read the contract and identify every lot being sold (if the contract says the buyer gets "car space 14" without saying how, that is the question, not the answer); search the title for each lot named; obtain the registered survey plan and see whether the lot is defined in parts; obtain the current community management statement and find the lot number and the space number together in Schedule E and the exclusive use plan; read the body corporate certificate and seller disclosure statement and check they match the statement; and only then walk the basement. The purpose of the inspection is to confirm what the documents already told you, not to discover it.本指南列出六個步驟：閱讀契約並確認所出售的每一單元（契約若僅稱買方取得「第14號車位」而未說明其依據，則此係問題所在，而非答案）；就所載明的每一單元進行產權查詢；取得已登記的測量圖，查明該單元是否由數部分構成；取得現行社區管理聲明，於附表E及專用使用圖中同時找到該單元編號與該車位編號；閱讀業主法人團體證明書及賣方披露聲明，核對其與社區管理聲明是否相符；至此方前往地下停車場現場查看。現場查看的目的在於確認文件所已告知者，而非藉此發現事實。

The seller disclosure regime under the Property Law Act 2023 (Qld) commenced on 1 August 2025, and a seller of a lot in a community titles scheme must give the buyer a disclosure statement together with the prescribed certificates before the buyer signs; for BCCM Act schemes that is a body corporate certificate. The certificate matters for car parking because it must state the scheme's by-laws and the exclusive use areas. A certificate that discloses no exclusive use area for the lot, where the seller has said the space comes with it, is not a discrepancy to be smoothed over: it is the answer. The prescribed fee is modest, so order the certificate early enough that the answer can still change the contract.《2023年財產法》（昆士蘭）所定的賣方披露制度自2025年8月1日起施行，社區產權計劃內單元的賣方須於買方簽約前，將披露聲明連同法定證明書交付買方；適用《業主法人團體及社區管理法》的計劃，其法定證明書為業主法人團體證明書。該證明書之所以對車位問題重要，在於其必須載明該計劃的管理規約及專用使用區域。賣方既稱該車位隨單元一併移轉，證明書卻未就該單元載明任何專用使用區域者，此並非可以含糊帶過的出入，而正是答案本身。其法定規費金額不高，宜及早申請，俾使所得結果仍有可能影響契約內容。

This happens more often than buyers expect, and there are only three honest responses: have the seller procure the necessary by-law and new community management statement before settlement, which requires a resolution without dissent and is rarely achievable within a contract period; adjust the price to reflect a lot without secure parking; or do not proceed. The response that is not available is to settle and sort it out later. After settlement the buyer owns a lot without parking and has lost every point of leverage they had.此種情形較買方所預期者更為常見，而誠實的因應方式僅有三種：要求賣方於交割前促成必要的管理規約及新社區管理聲明——此須無異議決議，於契約期間內鮮能達成；調降價金以反映該單元並無穩固車位的事實；或不予進行。唯一不可行的因應方式，是先行交割、日後再作處理。交割之後，買方所擁有者為一個沒有車位的單元，且已喪失原本握有的一切籌碼。