Queensland’s newest and fastest growing Buyer’s Agency bringing together some of the most experienced and trusted Buyer’s Agents in the industry providing a full range of services for home and investment clients.
Buying a new home or investment property should be a rewarding, engaging and enjoyable experience however, its often a process that is stressful and uncertain.
Angus Roxburgh founded the buyers agent office to deliver the highest quality service and advice available in the industry, removing much of the stress and risk associated with purchasing property.
Our team of property obsessed Buyer’s Agents have decades of experience with property and have developed trusted relationships across the industry with real estate agents, mortgage brokers, solicitors and conveyancers, building inspectors and a broad ecosystem of trades and experts who can assist you on your property journey.
We see so many home buyer’s and investors making fundamental mistakes when they buy property without expert advice. Purchasing a property will be the largest financial decision you will make in your lifetime; it makes sense to seek the advice and support of a seasoned professional because one simple mistake can lead to years of financial trouble if the property you purchase is a lemon.
Book in a free 20 minute consolation today with one of our experienced buyer’s agents.
Buyer’s agent services
Comprehensive search
Before commencing your search we meet with you to understand your needs including the type of home you need, where you want to live, schooling and transport. We also look at properties that you have seen that you like and dislike to develop an understanding of what appeals to you in a new home.
From there we develop a comprehensive search brief which will guide us through your property search. Our search will include both on-market and off-market properties to ensure that we have uncovered and explored every opportunity that is available.
We support you from the beginning of your search all the way through settlement to ensure that you find the perfect home and that the process is as easy as it can possibly be.
Investor search
Investors needs are different from that of a home buyer and that’s why our full investment property search well help you find the ideal investment property.
The first step is to understand what you wish to achieve through the purchase of an investment property to ensure that we match you with the best options that meet both your short and long-term goals.
Not all investment properties are created equal; some offer great capital growth, others offer high yields. We have a deep understanding of the numerous types of investment properties that are available from long-term lease homes, townhouses and apartments through to short-term let properties and alternatives such as dual-occupancy or entire apartment buildings.
Hoping to benefit from the Brisbane Olympic Games in 2032? We have that covered too as we have done the research, looked at whats happened in other host cities and considered the location of venues and the many infrastructure projects across Queensland and especially in the Southeast that will benefit the most from the Olympic’s in 2032.
Be it your first investment property or helping you build your portfolio, we can help you crunch the numbers to provide you with a comprehensive view of your investment property options.
Portfolio builder: looking to acquire the right property when it comes up. Be it a high growth/high yield opportunity, a property in a specific building or location or, something unique that offers something special?
We can monitor the market and notify you when the right property comes up and react quickly to acquire it for you.
Negotiate & Bid
Negotiating to buy a property can be a stressful and uncomfortable experience especially in a market where the majority of properties for sale are listed with no price guide.
Planning to bid at an auction? The excitement and terror of a live action battle is not the best way to find out how the process works and can lead to disastrous outcomes if you miss out or worse, get carried away in the moment and bid beyond your means.
We work with you to map out your offer or auction strategy and we help remove much of the stress and anxiety that the purchasing process can involve.
We manage the negotiation and contracting process with you to give you the best chance of success.
We then support you all the way through to settlement to ensure that the process is as easy as it can possibly be.
First home buyers
One of our most satisfying engagements is helping a first home buyer secure their very first home.
The market is increasingly hostile for first home buyers; there are the complex and confusing support schemes offered by state and federal governments, challenges securing finance and, the competitive pressures where demand far out-strips supply with properties often sold within hours of being listed for sale, not to mention no prices on listings, how do you value that property so you can make an offer and not over-pay or miss out all together?
Add to that the demand from investors competing in the same market space as well as second home buyers looking for an affordable new home and of course the added pressure from interstate and overseas migration.
Navigating all of this while finding time to search for and inspect properties in a busy working and social life and it’s no wonder so many first home buyers either give up or find that their search stretches to months and even years with much frustration and disappointment along the way.
Engaging us to help you find your first home will ensure that much of the stress, frustration and disappointment is a thing of the past along with the confidence from knowing that what you are offering on a property represents fair value and helps you avoid the financial mistake of over-paying or buying in an area that falls behind the market in the years ahead.
Interstate & Overseas
Moving to a new city can be an exciting adventure however finding a new home is hard enough in a fast paced market while trying to work out through the confusion of which areas to live in, transport and proximity to work, schooling and universities when you haven’t lived in your new city previously or, are moving back after sometime away. Queensland has changed a lot over the last 5 years, let alone the last 10, 15 or more.
When you start to focus your search to particular suburbs, what’s a fair price for the properties you are looking at, how different is the buying process to what it is in your current city/state/country. Is the area safe and desirable or, an up and coming area that might offer higher growth prospects as amenities, housing and the general area improve over time.
Our Buyer’s Agents have experienced this first hand as many of them have come to Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Queensland from somewhere else so we know how challenging it can be to move yourself and your family to a new city, the excitement and the many challenges that your move will throw at you.
We are a team of people focussed, property obsessed buyer’s agents who have a deeply ingrained ‘client first’ mentality.
We love working with our clients and we love building long-term relationships but don’t just take our word for it, see what our clients have to say too.
Talk to us to find out why our clients love working with us.
What is a buyer’s agent &
what do they do?
The property market is increasingly difficult to navigate and with busy and time poor lives, trying to balance work, family and a social life, while trying to make time for a property search, it’s no wonder that home buyers and investors are turning to buyer’s agents to help them with their search.
Most people know that they should engage a real estate ‘sales’ agent to help when it comes to selling their home or investment property. In a similar way, a buyers agent is a qualified and licensed real estate agent who happens to specialise in buying property.
Purchasing a home or investment property will likely be the largest financial decision you will ever make so it make’s sense to engage an experienced and knowledgeable buyer’s agent to help you buy the right property, at a fair price, to avoid may of the risks and pitfalls while ensuring that the process is as smooth and enjoyable as it can be.
Your brief
We gather your requirements to develop your brief. We look at the areas you love and others that you may not have thought of, your key must have requirements Vs desirables and the things you don’t want in your new home or investment property.
Searching for property
We look at everything that’s listed on-market and we actively source pre-market and off-market properties via our relationships with sales agents.
We do the leg work
We will find and review more properties in a week than most people will see in a month.
We do the due diligence for things like; location, flood, roads and rail, proximity to schools, universities and transport.
Focus on the short-list
We focus your attention and valuable time on the short list that meet your requirements and budget not the long, long list of properties that don’t.
Auctions and negotiation
When it comes to negotiating or bidding at auction, we have an unfair advantage as we understand the process, we know how agents and sellers think and, we know what strategies work best. The big difference in how a buyer’s agent works and the average buyer working for themselves; we don’t make an offer, instead we negotiate a purchase.
What’s the value proposition and what’s it cost?
Find more property
On-market, pre-market, off-market, we find and look at more property in a week than most people see in 2-3 months.
Time in a rising market
In a rapidly rising market, the longer a search takes, the higher the cost of property or worse, you may be priced out entirely.
Save at negotiation
In a negotiation, our buyer’s agents have an unfair advantage. The big difference in how a buyer’s agent works and the average buyer working for themselves; we don’t make an offer, instead we negotiate a purchase.
Purchase better property
What’s the cost of a mistake? A property that has problems or isn’t in an ideal location. A property that will underperform the market.
Investors, what is a good return, do you know what a great return is and how its achieved.
Want to capitalise on the Brisbane 2032 Olympics? We have done the research and crunched the numbers.
Market knowledge
Our buyer’s agents are in the market on a daily basis and have a broad network of sales agents, mortgage brokers and other trusted advisors who feed us daily updates on the market, new properties launching, sales results and market trends.
Reduces your risk
A buyer’s agent considers a broad range of things when they look at a listing and attend an open home.
There are so many issues and risks that an untrained eye will miss especially when attending an open home and trying to take in an overwhelming array of information, feelings and sensations.
Engagement fee
An engagement fee is an up-front, non-refundable fee which is due when your search commences.
Typically, engagement fees range between $2,000 and $5,000, depending on the purchase price range for the property.
Success fee
A success fee is a fee that is payable once you have gone unconditional on your contract to purchase a property.
Success fees typically range from 1% through to around 2.5% depending on the purchase price range for the property.
Other services
Auction & Negotiate: we offer a range of services for specific needs such as bidding at auction.
Investor multi-purchase: we offer a flat property search fee for investors looking to acquire several properties over a set time-frame.
Investor portfolio builder: for investors who wish to acquire unique properties that come up from time-to-time, we offer a low ‘monitor & acquire’ fee so when the right property comes up we can quickly react to acquire it for you.
Where do I start and what happens next?
Its as easy as 1, 2, 3…
Book your free consultation
Your fee consultation will take between 20 and 40 minutes. In this consultation we talk through what you are looking for, your preferred areas, property features, must haves and nice to haves, budget and the steps required to be ready to purchase a property (eg, finance pre-approval). This can be on the phone, on a video call or in person.
Outline the process & document
We provide you with an outline of how we will approach your search, the steps and fees involved.
Once you are ready to start, we use a standard Queensland Government and REIQ agreement for the engagement of a buyer’s agent (form 6) which outlines our services, a summary of your brief, fees and various T&Cs.
Commence your search
We commence your search, reviewing all on-market listings while looking for pre and off-market properties.
You will have access to our online client portal where we will short list or reject properties with you as we work through the available properties we have found.
