Member for Cook David Kempton has welcomed new legislation allowing Indigenous Queenslanders to buy and sell land in Aboriginal and Torres Strait communities.

Mr Kempton, who was involved in the consultation process and construction of the bill passed yesterday, said home ownership has the power to 'transform' Indigenous communities in far north Queensland and help generate wealth within the region.

Under the laws, 34 communities are able to transfer the tenure of selected land from communal ownership to freehold title.

Land that is chosen as freehold will no longer be subject to native title.

Mr Kempton said the new laws marked 'the beginning of the end of paternalism' and would empower Indigenous communities in his electorate.

"What I've seen in remote communities is where there is any economic opportunity people move very quickly away from welfare," he said.

"People will take greater pride in something they own as opposed to the state. There's an economy around this and it creates wealth within the community." 

The new laws mean the Douglas Indigenous community of Mossman Gorge could potentially have homeowners in the future, Mr Kempton said. 

"I haven't been to Mossman Gorge and held a meeting but there's a real capacity for home ownership," he said. 

"In some communities, there are cases of families who have been living in one home for many, many years." 

Determining the value of properties will be based on variety of factors, Mr Kempton said.

"Most of these houses have been handed over to the trustees ... where the houses have been handed over they will work out a value on the house based on its age, maintenance and history," he said.

Cape York communities such as Hope Vale, Napranum, Mapoon, Lockhart River and Bamaga may be more likely to embrace the new laws sooner than other communities, Mr Kempton said.

"I think in some of these more mainstream towns it will happen very quickly," he said.