Bought before it ever hit the market, leased in five days.
A Perth couple in their mid-fifties, weighing up retirement, came to us to buy two investments at once: one in their personal name, one inside their self-managed super fund. They wanted heavy, deliberate exposure to the market, with a plan to extract equity in the short term and leverage the portfolio further from there. The brief for the personal buy was a premium Newcastle investment around $1.2 million. This is where we put it. He never needed to lay eyes on it.
The access nobody else had
This one never reached an open home, and it was never going to. Through local relationships we learned of a vendor in a specific bind: they wanted to bid at an upcoming auction of their own, but their property wasn't market-ready, no campaign, no contract drafted. They needed to either lock in a sale quickly so they could chase that auction, or hold off and list in the coming months. We got access, ran our due diligence fast, and executed the purchase before the property ever hit the market or another buyer laid eyes on it. No competition, no auction, no campaign.
Why this property
Position does the heavy lifting here. Roughly a kilometre to the beach, a kilometre to the Junction town centre for shopping, with pubs and takeaway a short walk away. That's the lifestyle mix that pulls both quality tenants and family owner-occupiers, which is exactly why it leased in five days. Structurally it's a three-lot strata with a 33% unit entitlement and a large land component in one of Newcastle's most tightly held suburbs. Small strata, big land share, premium postcode.
Handled end to end, from 4,000km away
Buying from Perth carried no more risk than buying down the road, because we did all of it: strata review, pest and building inspection, arranging inspections, contract review and amendments, and then handing the property to management to lease. He signed. We did everything else.
Why the fee is a rounding error
Put the fee in perspective. A property like this, growing at a conservative ten percent on $1.23 million, adds around $123,000 in value in a single year. A one-off buyer's agent fee against that is a rounding error, and it's part of the cost base anyway. This purchase is now one piece of a portfolio worth roughly $3.6 million, positioned exactly where they wanted it heading into retirement.
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