Find & Buy: full-service buyers agent, Sydney

What we do

The search

Search begins with a tailored brief, developed in close consultation with you. Then we look, on and off the market, and attend the inspections on your behalf, seven days a week, while you’re at work. We give you feedback on every property we visit, so you understand which ones are worth pursuing and which should be left alone.

Choose well

Once we’ve found a suitable prospect, due diligence begins. Our pricing research builds a realistic price range from comparable sales and market conditions. It goes into far more depth than a bank or broker valuation, which is often an automated estimate generated by software and can be wildly inaccurate. It ends with a price recommendation you can be confident in. We also assess how the property is likely to perform over time, because capital growth potential matters as much as the purchase price.

We coordinate building and pest inspections and contract reviews, and do an in-depth strata review. We check zoning, flood mapping, flight paths, school catchment areas and neighbouring development applications, and we’ll talk to council if we need to. If something else is relevant to that particular property, we chase it down. Where a property needs it, we bring in planners, architects or builders. If we find something bad we tell you, even when it’s the place you love.

Read the field

Before we make a move, we want to know who we’re dealing with. Why is the vendor selling, and how motivated are they? How does this selling agent operate? Who else is interested, and how serious are they? The answers shape everything we do next.

Win the room

With all of that in hand, we recommend a strategy and put it into action, negotiating the purchase or bidding at auction on your behalf. Across my career we’ve bought the property at approximately 80% of the auctions we’ve bid at, including the ones secured by negotiation after they passed in.

And we stay involved well past exchange of contracts. We liaise with your solicitor along the way, personally attend the pre-settlement inspection, and we’ll be there with you to receive the keys.

How we work

No competing briefs

There’s only a limited number of good properties for sale at any given time, and I don’t want to play favourites. So if your brief, budget and area mean you’d likely end up looking at the same property as one of our existing clients, we won’t take you on until they’ve bought. We keep a waitlist for this, and the people on it are happy to wait, knowing we’ll do the same for them.

Four clients each, at most

Nobody on my team looks after more than four clients at a time. Each client has one of us leading their search and the whole team behind it. We don’t compete with each other, we work together.

A flat fee

Our fee is fixed and quoted on the complexity of your search, never on the price of the property. Whatever you end up paying for your home, our fee stays the same. Our only interest is in negotiating as hard as we can to bring the price down for you.

No referral fees

We don’t accept or pay referral fees. If we recommend a solicitor, a broker or a building inspector, it’s because they’re good at what they do. In NSW, agents have to disclose these relationships on a form called a Section 47. You’ll get ours when you sign up with us, not just before you sign a contract, and the amount next to every name on it is nil.

Want to know what to ask any buyer’s agent, us included? Read How to choose a trustworthy Buyer’s Agent.

What clients say

5.0 stars from more than 150 Google reviews

“I hired Michelle for her full search-and-buy service, and working with her was an absolute pleasure. She has an excellent rapport with real estate agents and guided me confidently through the market, answering questions at every step of the process. She stayed true to my brief and never let me settle for anything less than the right property. Best of all, the entire search took less than three months.”

Leonor K

“We were hesitant to engage a buyers agent because we’d heard horror stories and frankly didn’t really understand how they could help us. However, after being priced out of the market for two years, we decided to give it a go. ... We decided to sign on, even though we hadn’t budgeted for a buyers agent, and looking back now, it was worth every penny.”

Rio W

“Michelle provided an absolutely irreplaceable service in my quest to downsize to a property that was a better fit for my stage of life.”

Christy N

“I’ve used Buyers Agents before, but I’ve never experienced service like this. Michelle and Nicola and the team were so professional and had a great system going. They really made me feel comfortable and confident the whole time. I’m amazed how smooth everything went!”

Grace T

“After 6 months of missing out on property after property in a tightly held neighbourhood, I was starting to get nervous. Then I saw Michelle at an auction. She was bidding against me and she nailed it. So I hired her and it was the best thing I could have done.”

Bree M

Named winner of Outstanding Real Estate Buyers Agent at the 2026 Inner West Local Business Awards.

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Is Find & Buy right for you?

Find & Buy suits you if you’re buying a home in Sydney, you know roughly what you want, and you’d rather have someone experienced do the searching, the checking and the negotiating than spend your weekends at open homes. Many of our clients have been looking on their own for months, sometimes years, before they call us. Others are making a big property decision on their own for the first time and want someone in their corner.

We work across the Inner West, Eastern Suburbs, Inner City, Lower North Shore, Bayside, St George and the Sutherland Shire.

One thing we ask before we start is that your finance is sorted. We take on clients who are pre-approved or buying with cash, because a search can’t go anywhere until the budget is real. If you’re not there yet, get that in place first and then give us a call.

If you’ve already found the property and want it assessed and negotiated, that’s our Evaluate & Negotiate service. If you only need someone to bid for you on auction day, that’s Bid.

Questions people ask before they call

How much does Find & Buy cost?

It’s a flat fee, quoted on the complexity of your search, and we’ll give you the figure after a proper conversation about your brief. It’s the same whether you end up paying at the bottom of your budget or the top.

How long does it take?

It depends on your brief and what’s on the market. Some clients buy within weeks, others take a few months. There’s no time limit on our agreement, so you’re never pushed to buy quickly to beat a deadline.

Do I need to attend inspections?

Not most of them. We inspect everything, on and off market, and only bring you in for the properties worth your time. That said, we do like you to come along to a few inspections at the very start. Seeing how we assess a property teaches you what to look for, and it’s the fastest way to fine-tune your brief, because what you react to in person is often different from what you wrote down.

What if you find a problem with the property I want?

We tell you, and we tell you before you’ve committed to buying it. If the due diligence turns up something serious, we’ll recommend walking away, even if we’ve spent weeks on it. That’s the job.

Start with a conversation

The best way to find out whether we’re right for each other is a 20-minute call. No charge, no pitch. Tell us what you’re looking for and where you’re at, and we’ll tell you straight whether Find & Buy is the right fit, or whether one of our other services, or even no buyer’s agent at all, would serve you better.

Or call us on 02 7241 7713.