The portals already show you everything for sale. What they cannot do is tell you which of it is real, which is priced correctly, which carries an encumbrance you will discover at transfer, and which has been circulating between agents for eight months while presented to you as new.
Our position is simple: we are instructed and paid by you, the buyer, so our interest is in the property being right rather than in a transaction happening. That occasionally means telling a client that nothing currently available meets the brief and that waiting is the correct decision.
We take a written brief — use, budget, ownership requirement, timeline and what the asset has to do for you — and work it against both the open market and properties that are not publicly available. Every candidate is checked before it reaches you, and we show you the checks.
What the mandate covers
- A written acquisition brief agreed at the outset
- Sourcing across the open market and off-market channels
- Six-point verification on every candidate property
- Ownership eligibility confirmed for your nationality and structure
- Valuation view benchmarked to registered transactions
- Negotiation on your instruction, with a stated walk-away
- Transfer coordination through to registration of title
How an acquisition runs
The brief
Written down and agreed, including what would make us tell you to walk away. It is easier to hold a position that was set before anyone fell in love with a property.
The search
Open market and off-market, worked in parallel. We will tell you honestly which category anything we present came from.
The verification
Six checks, documented, before a viewing is arranged. If a property fails one, you hear which one and why.
The transfer
Costs itemised in advance, approvals mapped, and the file carried through to registration rather than handed off at agreement.
What you should expect
Fewer properties, each of which has a reason for being in front of you, and a clear statement of what is wrong with each one as well as what is right.