The 14-Step Property Buyer's Cheatsheet
Avoid the mistakes that cost buyers the most.
Most people buy a house two or three times in their life
The agent on the other side of the table does it every week.
That gap is where the expensive mistakes live, and they are rarely the dramatic ones. It is the clause nobody explained. The building report read after the offer went in. The price guide treated as a valuation. The property bought in a hurry because it felt like it was slipping away.
This is the checklist we work through ourselves, cut down to fourteen steps.
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What is in it
What to have sorted before you start looking, and what it costs you if you do not.
How to read a price guide, and why that number is a marketing tool rather than a valuation.
The checks worth running before you make an offer, not after.
Where contracts catch people out, and what to send your solicitor.
What changes when the property is going to auction, including the part about cooling off that most buyers get wrong.
The questions worth asking the agent, and what their answers actually tell you.
Who it is for
First home buyers, upgraders, downsizers, and anyone buying from a distance.
It assumes you know nothing about the industry, and it takes about five minutes to read. There is no pitch in it. It is the same list we hand clients at the start of an engagement.