Services
Most clients take the full service. Plenty engage us only to negotiate on a house they've already found, or to bid at a Saturday auction they'd rather not attend. Everything below is priced and scoped before you commit.
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The complete engagement, from a written brief to the keys. We search on and off market, inspect first, appraise in writing, negotiate or bid, then manage due diligence and settlement alongside your solicitor.
Percentage of purchase price
02
You've found the property. We appraise it properly, work out where the vendor actually sits, and run the negotiation from first offer to signed contract without your emotions in the room.
Flat fee
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A strategy set the night before, a written limit, and someone experienced holding the paddle. We also handle the pre-auction offer, which is where a surprising number of campaigns end.
Flat fee per auction
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A weekly shortlist measured against your brief, with the rejections written down and explained. Includes inspections on your behalf and video walkthroughs for anything worth a second look.
Included in full service
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We speak to selling agents across the inner north-west every week. Pre-market and quiet listings come to briefs we already have on file, which is the whole reason to write one early.
Included in full service
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A written value range with comparable sales attached, plus flood and overlay checks, building and pest coordination, body corporate records and the contract dates your solicitor needs.
Flat fee, or included
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Briefs built around yield, land content, tenant demand and holding costs rather than kitchen photos. Every recommendation arrives with the model behind it and the assumptions written out.
Percentage of purchase price
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Selling as well as buying? We interview and select the selling agent, negotiate their fee and campaign, and hold them to it — sitting on your side of a process most people only do once a decade.
Flat fee
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Slower, more explained, and priced for a first purchase. Contract conditions, cooling-off, the Queensland transfer duty concessions and what a building report is really telling you.
Reduced engagement fee
How we charge
Full-service engagements are charged as a percentage of the purchase price on a sliding scale, with the rate agreed in writing before we start. Single-task services are flat fees. Everything is quoted in AUD and includes GST.
See an indicative fee for your briefIndicative scale for illustration. Your actual fee, retainer and payment points are set out in the engagement agreement you sign before any work starts, and nothing is payable to us by a vendor, developer or referrer at any stage.
Questions
Most engagements land somewhere between six and twelve weeks from brief to signed contract. A tight brief in a thin market takes longer, and we'd rather tell you that at the start than let you assume otherwise.
Yes — that's the negotiation-only service. We appraise it, form a view on where the vendor sits, and run the negotiation. It's a flat fee and can be arranged in a day or two if the campaign is moving.
Regularly. Video walkthroughs, written appraisals and coordinated inspections mean a number of our clients have never stood in the property before settlement day.
Our depth is Brisbane's inner north-west — Ashgrove, Bardon, The Gap, Newmarket, Red Hill, Alderley, Enoggera and the surrounding suburbs. We take briefs further out, and we'll say honestly if a suburb is outside what we know well.
Never. No vendor commissions, no developer fees, no referral payments from brokers, inspectors or conveyancers. Your engagement fee is the only money that reaches us.
The engagement agreement sets out the search period, what the retainer covers, and what happens if you pause or stop. We'd rather walk away from a brief that can't be met than spend your money pretending otherwise.
Build your brief and we'll tell you honestly whether a full engagement is worth it, or whether one afternoon of negotiation would do the job.