Questions buyers ask

Engaging A Buyers' Agent, or Buyers Advocate, can provide several benefits. They can help you navigate the complex process of purchasing a property, provide expert advice and guidance, negotiate on your behalf and potentially save you time and money. Buyers' agents have in-depth market knowledge and can help you find properties that match your criteria while also providing insights and analysis. Their expertise can be especially valuable for first home buyers or those unfamiliar with the local real estate market.

An Off-Market and Pre-Market property refers to a property that is not (yet) publicly listed for sale on the open market via any marketing platform. Instead, these properties are sold through private networks, usually to a selling agent's data base contacts, which include buyers' agents. Off-market and Pre-Market properties can offer unique opportunities for buyers, as they have less competition from other house hunters and potentially provide better negotiating leverage. However, accessing these properties typically requires close working relationships with real estate agents or industry connections. This is one of the advantages buyers' agents will provide. BTW, approximately 30% of all property transactions are Off-Market sales, which means that there is a one in three chance of missing out on your perfect property if you are not engaging a buyers' agent.

This is a question hard to answer. It all depends on the complexity and uniqueness of your search criteria; it depends on how many properties become available for purchase in your preferred location at the time of your search and how far your budget is reaching. We have found properties within a couple of weeks of signing the agency agreement and some took us several months to locate. We have been engaged by clients who have been looking for many months and even several years by themselves and realised they are getting nowhere due to their time constraints, the pace of the market, missed opportunities, their inexperience with the negotiation or auction processes and/ or changing market conditions. After they came to us, we had them signing off on their new home within several weeks.

Again, our fees depend on the complexity and uniqueness of your search criteria, which is really a case-by-case scenario. In general, we try to stay as competitive and affordable as possible to make it worthwhile for you. We have the two options of percentage of purchase price or fixed fee on offer; whatever is more comfortable for you but also fair for all parties involved. There is also an upfront engagement fee that forms part of the whole investment.

Unfortunate to say, if you find a property you intend to buy by yourself, this will not release you from the agency agreement, hence the agreed fee will still apply. Therefore, we would prefer that you let us do our job once you have engaged us.

We are based in Potts Point. For owner occupiers we buy in Sydney, preferably the Eastern Suburbs, Sydney South, the Inner West and the Lower and Upper North Shore, and Sydney metropolitan in general. Outside Sydney metro: the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Newcastle. For investors we buy across the whole of Australia, with a preference for Victoria, South Australia, the ACT, Tasmania and Queensland. Recent Sydney purchases for clients include Belrose, Earlwood, Surry Hills, Kensington, Elizabeth Bay, Brighton-Le-Sands, Matraville, Darlinghurst and Kogarah.

Yes. That is our Gold Service: besides a physical inspection of the property, we strategise our approach to get ahead of buyer competition and become the winning buyer, whether at auction or by negotiating a private sale.

Yes. Our Silver Service is for experienced buyers who know the purchase process and only need our research reports, because the data platforms are mostly available to real estate professionals on subscription.

Yes. For investment properties the engagement includes collaboration with a financial planner, accountant and finance broker, and investors receive a Property Investment Analysis.

Only the buyer. We work for you, not the seller, for a transparent and stress-free buying experience.