If you're investing in property, it is essential to have expert knowledge to make the right investment decision. Investing in property in the wrong location at the wrong time can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and add years to your working life, and investment return.
Engaging a investment property specialist in the region of interest will save you time and help you pick the right location and the right time, and be there to inspect and ensure your investment property, whether commercial or residential will suits your goals and budget.
JTP Buyers Advocates works closely with clients to build a property portfolio you can be confident will help you achieve the financial freedom that suits your short & long term goals. As property specialists, we provide insights into the local property market and act as your advocate, making it easier for you to tap into the local market and reap the rewards of your investment for years to come.
Build your investment portfolio with a property expert
WHAT WE DO
Strategy Session - Investment Exploration
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Where you are right now
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Where do you want to be long-term
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What has been holding you back from achieving your property investment goals until now
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Let's review your goals & complete your investment property action plan.
Local Buyer Agent Representation
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Assisting you every step of the way
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Help you navigate the market to find the ideal suburb and property that can achieve your goals.
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Our strong connection with the market & local expert advisory team.
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Achieve the financial freedom you seek, within your set timeframe.
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Analyse the Australian property market with real term data.
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Achieve long-term capital growth & receive a secure passive income stream.
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Negotiate on your behalf to get the best possible price.
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Select properties that aligns with your longer-term goals.
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Manage your investment property, to give you stress free down time.
ONGOING BENEFITS
Expert Local Advice
With an expert buyer advocate and property manager, you can build your property portfolio with confidence and achieve financial freedom. Our approach to property investing is simple, where we apply our industry expertise, local market knowledge, and years of experience to recommend the best possible investment for your situation.
Tailored Approach
Our services are not a blanket property investment advisory service; we offer a tailored approach to suit you, whether it's commercial property or residential homes. We provide a Property Market assessment, which suburbs are at the top and which ones are rising, what is within proximity to your preferred facilities, towns or beaches, and where is the best acreage, or smaller land plots.
Grow Your Investment Portfolio
Get in touch with our team to find out more.
JTP Buyers Advocates offers a seamless and stress-free experience when it comes to buying & selling property. With our in-depth local market knowledge and commitment to help you achieve your goals, we ensure that every step is handled with professionalism and expertise.
As your real estate buyers agent, we support you from initial research to final negotiations We are here to support you in making informed decisions that align with your vision for the perfect property investment.
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GROWTH AREAS
We do not limit our property searches to a single location. We work with real estate agents in all the major growth areas of Australia.
Through our initial conversations we find out what your investment goals are and find the property to achieve your goals.
Everyone deserves to be financially free.
Are you ready to take the first step towards financial freedom?
JTP Buyers Advocate specialises in guiding individuals like you towards successful property investments that pave the way for a secure financial future. With our expertise and personalised approach, we can help you navigate the world of property investment on the South Coast, making the process smooth and rewarding.
If you are seeking a seamless and stress-free property acquisition process, our team of dedicated professionals will assist you every step of the way. With a trusted expert by your side, you can build wealth and achieve your dreams, so you can spend more time with people you love, doing what you love.
Why use JTP Buyers Advocate for your property journey?
We are dedicated Buyers Advocates
We know real estate. We research real estate. We love real estate. We want to go out and research properties for our clients, we love getting results for our clients. Our love of real estate is what sets us apart. This is not just a job for us!
We tailor our fees
With different packages available we have a service for everyone. From fixed fee in advance, to engagement fee and % of sales fees we have a service for your budget.
We work for you, not the sellers
If you are not paying for advice; if you are receiving free advice; if your advocate is being paid by someone else; then he or she is WORKING for someone else. By law a Real Estate Agent may have only one principal in any negotiation. The principal is the person who is paying the agent. This is the person who the agent is working for.
We don't work on referral fees
The only person we are working for is you, our client. If we need to recommend the services of another professional then we recommend the best. We are totally independent of all other companies. Whilst many financial services companies recommend our services without payment, we do the same.
Fully licensed
JTP Buyers Advocate is a fully licensed real estate business. We operate under the Real Estate industry association and follow strict moral and ethical standards.
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Owner Occupier
If you know where you want to live and how much you have to spend, then we can work out what you can purchase. If you know your budget and what you wish to buy we can work out where you can live.
Before we start searching for our clients we go back and look at the last three to six months of sold properties that have similar parameters to that which we are contemplating.
We can then spend time inspecting several properties, this can be done together or we can provide feedback. There is no pressure, and the properties are not usually perfect. In fact, we try to find something that is not so god, something average and then maybe one that is a little “over the top.” It is in this way we can start to understand the idiosyncrasies of our client.
We break down the owner occupiers search into four distinct categories: Budget, Where, What and then pull the whole search together with Why.
Priority Pieces
The “WHAT” the “WHERE” and “HOW MUCH” lead us to the start of the search. It is the priority that helps us narrow it down.
What is more important to you: Where you live or what you live in? You may be able to afford a better property if you move slightly further away from a certain location. However if you don’t really need that fourth bedroom, you may be able to get closer to where you work. And of course, if you know where you live and what you want to live in and the budget is flexible then you will have further options.
Almost every owner will need to make some concessions. We will spend a lot of time of helping you sort out priorities. This is not just changing suburbs, but getting a little further from the park or closer to the station. It might mean a slightly smaller back yard will get you a bigger home.
We try to achieve every wish, but sometimes that is simply not possible so we work along side our client to help them make some priority decisions.
Investor
Every investor has different goals. Some have high levels of equity in their existing property but may have limited cash flow due to growing family or shrinking wages. There are properties that have reasonable growth rates and very good yields that could make investing in property a lot less painful than you would imagine. There are investors that have plenty of spare cash. No more kids at home and need to start thinking about that retirement nest egg. There are properties that you will have to spend some money each week to help to fund, but they should double in value every 7-8 years. Many of our investors have little time to manage their investments either. We look at “Set & Forget” properties for these clients. Other people are ready to roll up their sleeves and “Value Add” to their investment property. We could look for something that needs some work and look to value add. Perhaps a new kitchen, bathroom or just a coat of paint may add significant value to your investment or you may be able to purchase something you didn’t think you could afford. Then there are those looking to massively increase their portfolio. The “Development option” may be the best way to go. Buying a property and planning on building in the back or demolishing to put up three or four town houses. Or do we look for something that could sit in all three categories.
Set and Forget
The set and forget option for investors can be broken up into two options. High Yield with average growth and high growth with average yield. Please note that anyone who tells you they can get you high yield and high growth without high risk is simply lying. If it were possible then every conglomerate, every hedge fund and SuperFund from AMP down would have bought the properties.
High yield with average growth is the option chosen by those with plenty of equity in their current properties but not much spare cash. With this option we are looking for a modern dwelling to maximise depreciation tax deductions, higher rental returns and lower maintenance costs. This option also tends to have smaller land content as tenants do not tend to pay a premium for land – they pay for accommodation. Typically this could be a modern townhouse in an established suburb with very good infrastructure or a family home in a new estate with good infrastructure. Both these options tend to have average capital growth, mainly due to the smaller land size and distance to the Central Business District.
The alternative is to target high growth properties but this may mean the yield percentage will drop. Typically these properties are older dwellings and have a larger land content than townhouses or new estate homes. The upside to getting a property closer to the CBD is that capital growth is usually better. Due the dwelling being older the majority of what you pay will be land value. AND LAND APPRECIATES WHILST BUILDINGS DEPRECIATE! The downside is the maintenance may be higher and the property may be harder to lease out. There is another upside to older style properties on larger land. There may be Value Add options and or land banking and Development Options.
Add value
A quicker way to build equity rather than waiting for capital growth is to add value to your property. We can target a property that may need a decent coat of paint to a new kitchen or bathroom. Some of our clients are tradesmen, and we target very rundown houses that we pay land value for and then over a period of time these properties get fixed up, tenanted and then held. This can mean a greater capital appreciation and also reasonably good rental returns if the renovation is well done.
However, this is not as easy as it sounds and there are inherent risks. The main one being that you want the property value to increase by more than you spend to improve it. I know this sounds simple but it is the fundamental issue that plagues most people trying to “flip” properties.
Many who watch The Block on Channel 9 and sees the contestants winning huge amounts of money can become delusional and believe they can buy a property, paint some walls and sell it for hundreds of thousands of dollars more than they paid. The fact of the matter is, it is nearly impossible to purchase a property, do a simple renovation, and then sell for a profit. The cost of buying and selling makes up approximately 10% of the purchase price of the property (Government charges and stamp duty and then Estate Agents selling costs). This means that if you purchased a property for $400,000 and sold it 6 months later for $500,000 and you had spent $30,000 on repairs and $10,000 on interest to the bank then you would have only made about $20,000 which would be taxable income, so the average person would then lose another 30%. The risk is also that you do not get $500,000!!
There are good ways to value add to speed the growth in your portfolio, Ask us how.
We do not reveal the names of our clients to anybody (a) without their permission; or (b) unless it is in the normal course of signing contracts etc. or (c) as required by law. All references on this site are genuine and were provided by clients who were happy to have their names revealed. We are regularly involved in property purchases “off market” without any publicity or fanfare.
We can never know exactly how a property will perform anytime in the future. We make assumptions and educated guesses using historical data and extrapolate this forward. It can be a conflict to receive money from a selling agent. Our solution We never receive any money from selling agents – ever. It can be a conflict to recommend a property to a current client that is owned by a past client. If we have given any advice either freely or under contract, we will not recommend nor act for a purchaser with regard to that property. From time to time we are engaged by a person who is selling a property for general advice and assistance. We offer this as a general consulting service. It automatically precludes us from dealing with any purchaser on this property. It can be a conflict to be paid more if a client pays more when we are working for the client. Our solution We can agree on a fees at the start so as we can’t be seen to be encouraging you to spend more for our benefit. It can be a conflict to take on a new client for a specific property, when we already have a client looking at that specific property. Our solution We don’t take on the new client for that specific property where we have started a property report for an existing client. IT IS A CONFLICT where we have two clients who become interested in the same property. In summary, we recognize there is conflict and this makes things difficult. There will almost always be competition on good property and on the rare occasion this happens within our company, we will be completely straight and inform you, so as you can make informed decisions. Communication, one of the cornerstones of our company.
How much do we cost? Prior to starting we sit down with you, listen to what you want, and then clearly set out our fees in writing. They will vary depending on the service you want. Generally speaking, our fee will be between 1% and 2% plus GST of your estimated budget. Our fees are fixed in advance – based either on your estimated budget (so as you have no thoughts we are encouraging you to pay a higher price for our own gain) or on the actual sale price (when you are not sure exactly what your budget will be). Our minimum full service fee is $6000inc GST. Do I have to pay for our first meeting? No. Do we receive money from selling agents, mortgage brokers, solicitors or other third parties? No. Never. Do you work with Expats, Interstate, Overseas or Foreign buyers? Yes. We have a great deal of experience working for buyers from afar – in fact it is quite normal for us to never meet our interstate or overseas clients face-to-face. We understand issues like time zones, currency conversions, FIRB laws and Power of Attorney, and we have the resources on hand to overcome the unique problems that working from afar can present. What’s our guarantee? We have no interest in any of the properties we recommend. We are qualified and licensed in the same way as selling agents, and operate under the same legislation. We just happen to work for the buyer rather than the seller. These are the cornerstones of how we work and our promises to you. They are in writing, publicly available and we are totally committed to them.