Legal tools

Propero includes two legal information tools on Lease Overview (hub > Lease). They're general information, not legal advice. Always confirm with a qualified professional before acting.

Both tools currently cover New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria only. Open either one from a property in another state or territory and you'll see Not available in your state yet instead.

Neither tool requires Propero Pro.

Break Lease Guide

Reach it from Lease Overview > Options, any time there's an active lease, or from the Estimate Costs shortcut that appears after you record a Record Tenant Notice declaration.

The whole guide end to end: the Estimate Costs shortcut, the exemption gates, the details step, and the estimate.

Exemption gates come first

Before showing any figure, the guide lists circumstances where the tenant can leave with a reduced break fee or none at all: family or domestic violence, an uninhabitable or destroyed property, a tribunal hardship order, a landlord breach, and a handful of other state-specific grounds. Tap one and Propero shows its outcome straight away (for example, "The tenant can end the tenancy immediately, with nothing to pay") with no dollar figure attached. For the domestic violence gate specifically, Propero doesn't ask you for or store any evidence about it.

If none apply, tap None of these apply to continue to the calculator.

Inputs

The calculator prefills what it already knows from the lease (weekly rent, lease type, agreed term) and asks for:

• Handover date, the day the tenant hands back the property
• In Queensland, whether the agreement has a reletting-costs clause (most standard Form 18a agreements do)
• Optionally, when the new tenancy starts, if you already know it

Result

NSW and Queensland use the statutory 4/3/2/1-week sliding scale based on how much of the fixed term had elapsed at handover, so they show a dollar figure (Queensland's is capped at the lesser of that figure and the rent you actually lose before re-letting). Victoria has no fixed schedule, so it always shows guidance on what you can recover, rent until re-let, reasonable advertising costs, a share of any agent fee, rather than a single number.

Nothing is charged or written to your records. It's an estimate, calculated on your device.

Termination Notice

This one isn't listed under Options. It only appears as Prepare Notice, on the card that shows once you record an End Tenancy declaration.

1. Choose a ground: a state-specific reason for ending the tenancy (breach, rent arrears, sale, renovation, demolition, owner occupation, and others depending on your state). A ground is always required, there's no "no reason" option, and each row shows its minimum notice period up front.
2. Dates and service: pick how you'll serve the notice (in person, post, or email if the tenant has consented). Propero computes the earliest lawful end date from the ground, the service method's buffer, and the lease's agreed term, and won't let you choose an earlier one.
3. Review: confirm any required evidence (for example, an extract of the sale contract, or your own signed statement) and add particulars where the ground needs them. A warning appears here if the ground carries a re-letting ban.

Tap Generate Notice and Propero fills in your state's official notice as a PDF and opens it for you to review. You deliver it to your tenant yourself, the app never sends or serves it on your behalf. Generation is refused until every required piece of evidence is confirmed.

State coverage

Related guides

• Renewals & ending a tenancy
• FAQ: What states do the legal tools support?