Josephine: Interstate Investor
With a strong desire to invest in the growing Southeast Queensland property market, but a limited knowledge of the areas to invest, New South Wales based investor Josephine started the property-buying search herself. Before long, things got very overwhelming for her. She was recommended to Property Navigation by a friend in the financial sector. After speaking to a number of different Buyer’s Agents, Josephine chose Property Navigation to find her new investment property.
‘There are just too many things in the background to check that are different to NSW, and I was concerned about flood zones among a number of other things. There were too many unknowns for me, that I wasn’t confident I’d make the right choice. I also had a friend in Toowoomba, but I couldn’t ask them every time to go to an Open Home or do an inspection for me.”
Josephine made the decision to engage Property Navigation after having an initial meeting with Boyd our Principal Buyer’s Agent, and then calling and speaking with two of our past clients. This helped Josephine find out all the information she needed to make the right decision in who she wanted to represent her. “Property Navigation weren’t the cheapest, but I felt, like, a lot of trust and knew these guys do their job very well. I really liked the amount of Due Diligence that went into each individual property they viewed, as I was concerned with flood zones and many other things, but Boyd addressed all those things in our first chat, so they were ticked off my concerns list straight away.”
The brief was clear. Josephine wanted an established house on a good amount of land that offered strong imminent price growth potential with best possible cash flow. She wanted four bedrooms, two bathrooms and preferred a brick build…her budget was $515,000. This was also Josephine’s first investment property purchase, so a key motivation for this purchase was to ensure that it was a solid foundational investment property that would help her get to the next property faster.
The markets at this time across Australia were experiencing very low levels of stock. However, within 6 weeks our team sourced an off-market opportunity that was offered exclusively to Property Navigation clients. The opportunity was a stunning four-bedroom, two bathroom, two-car garage home on a 600m2 block. Even during the nationwide low-stock environment, our team negotiated $7000 off the Sellers expectation, settling at $493k, which was $22,000 under Josephine’s budget. The property also had quality tenants which still had another 11 months on their lease, taking away any immediate need and expense to find new leaseholders.
“I’m really happy, and everything turned out really well for me. In fact, I have already recommended Property Navigation to a friend. I valued the immediate responses that I got from Boyd, every time. It was just like having a personal Real Estate Agent that was looking just for me. I am honestly very happy with everything. I previously have bought my own Homes to live in, and this was heaps easier, just so much easier.”
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- Talon Lawson
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