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Frequently asked questions
Services and coverage
How we decide
Working with us
We find, evaluate and acquire property for buyers. Houses, selected apartments and townhouses, and new builds. We also take commercial property, case by case.The engagement runs in five stages. Initial Consultation, Screen, Report, Acquire, Record. You start with a written brief, you get a scored shortlist with the reasoning attached, and the file stays open after settlement.A selling agent works for the seller. Their job is to get the highest price the market will bear, and they are very good at it. We work for the buyer, which means we run the screen, we do the due diligence, and we negotiate against that agent.
Yes. Self-managed super funds, family and discretionary trusts, companies, interstate investors buying in their own name, and owner-occupiers.The structure changes what you have to get right: what the fund may hold, how the trust distributes, what the company's tax rate does to what's left. The screen stays the same. The same five factors read the suburb whoever is signing. On commercial the asset carries a further test, its lease: the expiry profile, the tenant, and who carries the outgoings.We evaluate and acquire the property. Whether a fund, a trust or a company is the right vehicle is your accountant's call. We build the report so they can audit it.
Yes. Retail, office and industrial, including purchases made through a self-managed super fund, a trust or a company.Gross yield ignores outgoings. Under a gross lease the landlord is the one carrying them, so the advertised number and what reaches you are two different figures. We don't take a yield at face value until we know which one it is and who pays the outgoings behind it. The five-factor screen reads the location the same way it does for residential. What differs is the asset-level test: lease term, weighted average lease expiry, tenant profile, and who carries the outgoings.We take commercial engagements case by case, and we will tell you early if a brief is better served elsewhere. Whether a fund, a trust or a company is the right vehicle is your accountant's call, not ours. We evaluate and acquire the property. What we won't do is hand you a yield figure and leave you to find out later what it included.
We re-score the same suburb list across South East Queensland's eight councils every month, client or no client. Brisbane, Logan, Moreton Bay, Ipswich, Redland, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Noosa.Most of the buying we do lands in Greater Brisbane, which is where our field verification runs deepest. If your brief points somewhere we don't cover, we will say so early.
Most of our clients are interstate. We built the process for people who can't drive out on a Saturday: you get the report and the reasoning behind it in writing, so you can push back on a recommendation from Sydney without having seen the street yourself.Nothing in the process assumes you will attend an inspection. If you want to come up, we will arrange it. If you don't, the engagement runs the same way.
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