Evaluation and Negotiation
If you prefer to search for your own property or if you have already located a property and would like House Search to conduct a market evaluation and then negotiate on your behalf, we will provide the following service:
Evaluate - Once you’ve selected a property we conduct and provide you with a thorough and written market analysis to determine the true market worth of the property, using our local knowledge and agent only databases.
Negotiate - We commence negotiations assertively on your behalf with the seller/selling agent, with the intention of obtaining the best possible price, terms and conditions for the property. This process can sometimes occur over a period of days, up until formal exchange of contracts.
Acquisition - Once an offer has been accepted, we recommend that your solicitor/conveyancer reviews the contract of sale to verify that all legal requirements are met. Should the property proceed to auction, however, the contract review and searches will need to be carried out prior to auction.
Extra Services - If required, we are happy to also refer and/or arrange the coordination of related services, such as solicitors/conveyancers, building and pest inspectors and financiers. All such external consultants’ fees are at the client’s personal expense.
Fees
For an Evaluation and Negotiation package, we evaluate, provide you with a written individual property analysis and negotiate the individual property purchase on your behalf and/or bid at auction.
For this service, we charge a total success fee of $2,640 (inc GST), with an initial retainer of $750 due upon appointment of our services, for each negotiation. Please note that the retainer fee is then rebated from the success fee, with the remainder of the success fee ($1,890) then payable upon successful exchange of contracts.