Your FIRSTfirst home is out there.We know that street it’s on.
We find it, get to know it better than the neighbours do, and win it at a price that doesn’t break the bank — so the first time you stand in the doorway, it’s already yours.
Finding your first home takesmore than street smarts
After years of saving and months of doom scrolling realestate.com, you’re finally ready to put your first foot in the door of Melbourne’s property market. It’s one of the most important financial decisions tens of thousands of home hunters will ever make, as they scour every listing from Craigieburn to Frankston in search of a place to call their own.
It’s also never been a fair fight.
Hidden home features best left “forgotten” by the listing copy. The local knowledge only learned by years spent on its streets. The agents battling against your bid for the best price.
We spent decades watching it all work against the first timers finding their footing in today’s market.
Now, we’re advocating for you to have the advantage.
Want the right home at the right price?You need the right APPROACHapproach.
Standing between you and your first home is an agent who has sat behind a sale hundreds of times before. Someone who knows what it’s worth, what it’ll take, and how far you’ll go — because they’ve watched thousands of buyers just like you decide the exact same thing.
For most, this is the biggest move you’ve ever made.
For them, it’s another day at the office.
So we say, why not level the playing field with some experience of your own?
We advocate for first home buyersto Have An Unfair ADVANTAGE.Advantage.
A buyers agent with over a decade of experience selling homes — now buying them for you.
Plan it
We start by working out who we’re buying for, and whether we’re the right ones to do it. Most buyers have never been asked what they actually want before an agent starts selling at them. We ask first. What you really want, what you can really spend, and what happens if this drags on longer than you’d hoped. And if we can’t add anything to your search, we’ll tell you that too.
Find it
On market, off market, we weigh them the same and let the property decide. We track every listing in Melbourne and sit in the conversations where homes change hands before they’re ever advertised. Half the value is in the homes we bring you. The other half is in the ones we throw out before you ever see them.
Know it
A price tag tells you next to nothing about living somewhere, so we go digging. The good end of the street and the end that floods. The neighbour’s approved second storey. The listing that’s sat three months for a reason nobody’s put in writing. We check building and pest, contracts, owners corporation records, all of it, no shortcuts. If something turns up that makes a place wrong for you, we’ll say so, even when it’s the one you’d already fallen for.
Win it
Wanting it is the easy part. Winning it is a negotiation or an auction against people who do this in their sleep, and it’s where first-timers usually overpay. We build the strategy around the vendor and agent in front of us, helping us negotiate, bid, and we stop on the number we agreed. You watch. We talk.
Own it
The part that should feel like a victory lap and mostly feels like paperwork. We run it through to unconditional, catch the one-percenters that surface between exchange and settlement, handle the final walk-through, and put the keys in your hand.
Live it
Then we do what most advocates don’t. A few weeks in, we check back. Not to sell you anything, just to make sure the move went smoothly and you know where to find us if it didn’t. We buy in the streets we live near, so our clients have a habit of becoming our neighbours, and more often than not, our friends.
Already found your home?We’ll help BUY IT.buy it.
Months of searching gets decided in a negotiation that lasts an afternoon, against someone who has done it a thousand times and will do it again next Saturday.
If you’ve found the home yourself, we’ll handle what happens next. Valuation before the conversation starts, a strategy built around the agent in front of us, and a bid or a negotiation that stops where you told us to stop. You’ve already made the hard decision. This is the part where it gets protected.
Our first street was Sophie’s
Every business remembers its first. Ours came with a postcode you already know.
Sophie found us through a friend, back when we had a strategy, an opinion on the Northside, and absolutely no website. She backed us anyway. What we found her was a home in Strathmore, on the same street they filmed The Castle, livable from the day she got the keys, with real room to grow into when she’s ready.
The agent’s opening number? We told him he was dreaming — winning the home at a price that both her and the client were happy to walk away with.
It’s the kind of buy we love. A sensible first step that sets her up properly, with real upside sitting there for whenever she decides to move on. When that day comes, we’d like nothing more than to be the ones who find her the next one.
We tell buyers you never forget your first. Sophie’s is the reason we mean it.
Different buyers, different corners of the city, the same result each time: the right home on the right street, won at the right number.
About us
Street smart,BY TRADE.by trade.
JASONJIMSome agents sell homes. We spend our days undoing everything that makes that easy for them. A small team, one suburb, and more local knowledge than any report will ever hold. The people behind That Street are worth knowing before you buy.
Frequently Asked Questions
For most, yes. A buyers advocate is the only party in the transaction paid by you rather than the seller. Overpay by 5% on a $700,000 home and that’s $35,000 you carry for years, which almost always costs more than the fee ever did.
Fees are charged either as a fixed amount or a percentage of the purchase price, depending on whether you want a full search or help on a property you’ve already found. You’ll get the number up front. And if we can’t add enough to justify it, we’ll tell you that instead.
Yes. Agents place a share of their stock privately with known buyers before it’s advertised. That matters most down here, because selling off market saves a vendor more relative to the price on a $700,000 home than a $7m one, so more of them go that way every year. Without a way into those conversations, you’re seeing a fraction of the market.
Off market there are no public records to point at, so value comes from the read rather than the printout. What sold nearby and never made it online, what the vendor needs to move on, and how that street performs against the ones around it.
That’s one of the first things we’ll tell you, straight. You’ll get an honest read on what your money really buys right now, before you fall for something it doesn’t.
It comes down to what the home needs to do and how long you’ll stay in it. Smaller and closer usually holds value better and leaves you more options later. Bigger and further buys you room now at the cost of flexibility.
The costly problems are structural, not cosmetic. Movement in the walls, water where it shouldn’t be, poor drainage, anything odd on the title. Chipped paint and a dated kitchen are cheap fixes that scare buyers off perfectly good homes.
It depends on your brief and what’s coming onto the market, but expect an honest pace and a realistic number of homes each week. The goal was never to show you everything. It’s to show you the few worth a Saturday.
You do, always. We find, filter and do the due diligence, then bring you a shortlist worth your time. Nothing is offered on or bid on without your approval.
Word on the STREET.street.
Let’s find that street.
Tell us what you’re after, what you’re working with, and the streets you’ve already got your eye on. We’ll tell you where that budget really stretches and what’s about to come up that you won’t find online.