Eastern Suburbs · Inner West · Lower North Shore
Done For You: Complete Property Buying Service, Sydney
Quick answer: Done For You is Unicorn Buyers Agents' full-service option — we handle everything from building your brief and sourcing properties (including off-market) through to due diligence, negotiation, and settlement. Your involvement is at the decision points only. Average time to purchase for Done For You clients is three to eight weeks.
What Done For You Means in Practice
Most buyers who try to run a serious Sydney property search themselves discover the same thing: it is a second job. Weekends consumed by open homes, evenings reviewing comparable sales, constant agent conversations, and the need to be available at short notice when the right property appears — all before you’ve even found something worth pursuing properly.
Done For You removes all of that. We handle the search, the inspections, the agent relationships, the due diligence, and the negotiation. You review what we find, make decisions at the key moments, and take ownership of the property at settlement. Everything in between is ours.
This is the right service if you want to buy well without making property your second job — or if you’ve already tried searching independently and found that the market moves faster than a part-time effort allows.
What's Included
Brief and Strategy
We start with a thorough discovery session — typically 30–45 minutes — to build a detailed brief. For homebuyers, we map your must-haves, your flexibility, your timeline, and the suburbs that genuinely suit your life. For investors, we build a data-backed strategy around your budget, target growth corridor, and yield requirements, using suburb-level research to identify where your money works hardest over your investment horizon.
Search: On-Market and Off-Market
We search across public listings and our agent network simultaneously. A meaningful proportion of quality property in Sydney's inner suburbs never reaches Domain or realestate.com.au — it goes to buyers agents with established selling agent relationships first. That pipeline is open to our clients. We also run direct agent outreach, leverage research tools including RPData, and use door-knocking and letterbox drops where a brief demands it. We inspect every property that meets your brief in person before it reaches you.
Due Diligence and Appraisal
For properties you want to progress, we complete a full due diligence process: building and pest inspection co-ordination, strata report review (checking financials, meeting minutes, special levies, and maintenance history), development risk assessment, council zoning checks, and legal contract review co-ordination with your solicitor. We compile comparable sales to produce an independent price appraisal — what the property is actually worth, not what the agent says it's worth.
Negotiation and Auction
Having purchased over half a billion dollars of Sydney property, we have the relationships, market knowledge, and negotiation experience to consistently secure properties below where the market sees value. We routinely save clients 3–15% from the initial asking position. Whether the property goes to auction or is available by private treaty, we manage the entire negotiation with full authority to act on your behalf.
Post-Purchase Co-ordination
We co-ordinate with your solicitor and broker through to settlement and conduct a pre-settlement inspection on your behalf. For investment purchases, we arrange a depreciation schedule and introduce you to our property management network to have the property leased at the appraised rental as quickly as possible after settlement.
Who Done For You Is For
This service suits buyers who want to be involved at the decision points — reviewing options, approving the negotiation approach, signing contracts — but don’t want to run the search themselves. It is particularly well suited to:
- Time-poor professionals and executives who want to buy well without forfeiting weekends to open homes
- Buyers relocating to Sydney from interstate or overseas who need someone on the ground
- Investors who want a data-driven brief executed by someone who buys in these suburbs every week
- Anyone who has spent three or more months searching independently without a resul
- Buyers who have missed multiple properties and want a structural advantage in a competitive market
The Done For You Process
Discovery Call and Brief
We meet via video call or in person to build your brief in detail. Budget, target suburbs, property type, non-negotiables, flexibility, timeline, and investment objectives if applicable. We get this right once so everything that follows is targeted.
Active Search
We attend inspections, work our agent network for pre-market and off-market opportunities, and filter everything against your brief. You receive regular updates — what we've seen, what we've ruled out and why, what we're pursuing. No inbox flooding with properties that don't fit.
Shortlisting
When we identify something that genuinely stacks up, we present it with full supporting detail: video walkthrough, comparable sales analysis, independent price appraisal, and our assessment of the opportunity and any risks. You decide whether to proceed. One focused conversation, all the information you need.
Due Diligence
We co-ordinate the full due diligence process — building and pest, strata report review, legal contract co-ordination — and brief you on findings. Problems are identified and assessed before you're committed.
Negotiation and Exchange
We negotiate with full authority on your behalf. Private treaty, pre-auction offer, or bidding at auction — we deploy the right strategy for the situation and the market. You're involved at the key decision point; we handle everything in between.
Settlement and Handover
We manage through to settlement, co-ordinating with your solicitor and broker and conducting the pre-settlement inspection on your behalf. For investors, we activate property management and a depreciation schedule immediately post-settlement.
"When we were looking to purchase our first family home, we met with several buyers agents before we engaged Dan. Dan was the only one who really listened to us and understood our requirements. Within 6 weeks of having Dan on board, we exchanged on a home that exceeded our expectations."
— Jacqueline Osborne, buyer client
"I engaged Dan earlier this year when I was looking for my first property. He helped me refine my brief, tirelessly inspected properties and was able to get me access to a series of great off-markets. When I found two places I liked he negotiated BOTH simultaneously until I had two sellers ready to accept my offer. Dan's skills in landing my property were something to behold."
— Roland Chanin-Morris, buyer client
Why Done For You Produces Better Outcomes
The quality of a property purchase compounds. A buyer who secures a well-located property in a tightly held suburb, at a well-negotiated price, with clean due diligence — and does so in three to eight weeks rather than twelve to eighteen months — is financially ahead in multiple ways simultaneously: better asset, better entry price, and sooner in the market.
Buyers who run a search independently often take longer, buy under time pressure, or make location and quality trade-offs that erode long-term returns. The fee for Done For You is typically recovered many times over — through better asset selection, sharper negotiation, and the compounding difference between a good purchase and a great one.
A property growing at 5% per annum rather than 4% is worth $200,000 more after ten years on a $2 million purchase. That 1% difference is often the difference between buying on a compromised brief and buying the right thing.
Where We Buy
Eastern Suburbs
Woollahra, Paddington, Double Bay, Rose Bay, Bellevue Hill, Bondi, Coogee, Randwick, Potts Point. Sydney's most competitive market. Off-market access is essential here; a significant portion of quality stock never reaches public listing.
Inner West
Balmain, Leichhardt, Marrickville, Newtown, Surry Hills, Annandale. Consistent long-term growth, strong lifestyle appeal, and meaningful ongoing infrastructure investment. A market where local agent relationships produce consistent off-market access.
Lower North Shore
Mosman, Cremorne, Neutral Bay. Land-rich, strong school catchments, premium tenant base. Popular with growing families and senior professionals buying both homes and investment properties.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Done For You include that Done With You doesn't?
Done For You includes the full property search — we source and inspect properties on your behalf, including off-market opportunities you would not otherwise see. Done With You is designed for buyers who will conduct their own search and want expert support on appraisal, due diligence, and negotiation when they've identified properties they like. If you want us to find the property as well as secure it, Done For You is the right service.
How long does a Done For You search typically take?
Our average time to purchase for Done For You clients is three to eight weeks from commencing the search. Some purchases happen faster — particularly where an off-market opportunity matches the brief early. The timeline depends on the specificity of the brief, the budget, and how competitive the target market is. We are transparent about realistic expectations at the start of every engagement.
How involved do I need to be during the search?
Your involvement is concentrated at the decision points: the initial briefing session, reviewing shortlisted properties, and approving the negotiation approach. Most of this happens via video call, email, or phone. We handle everything in between. Clients with demanding schedules should expect to commit one focused conversation at each stage rather than ongoing time throughout the week.
How does your fee work for Done For You?
We offer either a fixed fee or a percentage of the purchase price (typically 1%–2%), capped at a pre-agreed amount. We discuss both options at the brief stage and recommend whichever suits your budget and situation. Full details are on our fees page.
Do you work with investors as well as homebuyers?
Yes. Done For You is equally suited to investment property purchases. For investors, we build a data-driven brief from the outset — target suburb, property type, yield and growth expectations, and vacancy risk assessment. We find the property that performs, not the one that photographs well, and coordinate property management referrals for seamless rental activation post-settlement.
What happens if you can't find the right property?
We maintain the search until we secure the right property for your brief. If your brief falls outside our service area or we have a conflicting client brief, we tell you at the outset and can refer you to a trusted buyers agent colleague who operates in your target area.
How does off-market access actually work?
Off-market access comes from long-term relationships with selling agents who know us well enough to share pre-market and silent listings before they're advertised publicly. Vendors often prefer to transact quietly — no open homes, no advertising costs, a faster campaign. We are on the call list for those conversations because we've purchased consistently in these suburbs for years. That access is not replicable by buyers searching alone on portals.
Can Done For You work for buyers with a tight timeline?
Yes — and this is one of the strongest arguments for Done For You. A tight timeline (a lease expiry, a school enrolment, a move-back date) creates risk when searching independently because it forces compromise. With a professional running a full search from day one, the process is compressed and focused. Clients with genuine urgency often benefit most from this service.
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