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About Us |
- We only Buy Property
- We buy all forms of residential property
throughout Melbourne, Geelong and the Peninsulas
- We can search and negotiate, or just negotiate
- We deal at private sales, auctions,
Expressions of Interest, tenders and others
- We can arrange independent legal, pest,
building and valuation inspections
- We are qualified, experienced industry professionals,
and we are members of the REIV
- We have more dedicated Advocates than any
other Melbourne Advocacy company
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Our Team |
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Antony Bucello - Buyer Advocate
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Antony is married with 2 children and lives in Lower Templestowe. He commenced working with JPP Buyer Advocates in 2002 and is an Authorised Buying Agent.
Antony is a Representative Member of the REIV and loves his sport, gardening and getting away with his family when he's not working.
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Samantha James - Buyer Advocate
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Sam is married with 2 adult children, & lives in Bayside.
Her main role and skills lie in finding the property that others seem unable to find.
She also enjoys the cut and thrust of auction bidding and her negotiation skills present
the company with a number of options not involving the male ego.
Sam's main non-work activities revolve around her family & friends.
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Ian James - Director
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Ian has been operating his
own businesses for more than 20
years. During this time the self
taught lessons of building the
business, dealing with staff,
suppliers, clients and economic
woes have been invaluable. Ian
is a fully licensed Real estate
Agent, a member of the REIV and
registered with the Business
Licensing Authority.
Buying property is not just
sticking up your hand and
outbidding your rival. It is an
emotional, fiscal and
psychological decision that
needs to be planned and well
executed. Ian is usually
involved in over three hundred
property negotiations per year;
ranging from the $250,000 first
unit purchase for a young couple
to multiple million dollar
residential developments. Ian’s
business background and endless
numbers of negotiations make him
one of the industry’s leading
negotiators.
Ian is married with two adult
children, living in Bayside. He
is a keen fisherman when weather
and business allows the time.
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Courtney James - Buyer Advocate
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Courtney has an advanced diploma in hospitality management and she also has Certificate IV in Business Studies (Real Estate).
She is a fully licensed Real Estate Agent and an accredited Buyers Advocate with the REIV. She has already bought her first property
and is on the lookout for her second. Courtney is a sensational asset to the JPP Team bringing a level of enthusiasm second to none.
Her organisational skills are the envy of her peers. When not working, her interests include supporting the Collingwood Football Club,
movies, and her lovable Ragdoll cat "Dax".
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Kim Easterbrook - Buyer Advocate
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Kim is a representative member of the REIV and has a love for property.
She has a bachelor degree in Accounting and is also close to completing a Masters in Property.
With her background in number crunching and passion for property, Kim can assist in purchasing a property
that is not only right for your needs, but also in the right location and for the right price.
She has personally been involved in many purchases and sale of real estate and keeps constantly up to date with
the performance of the Melbourne market.
Kim is married with two step sons and lives in Elwood.
When she is not working or studying, her interests include personal training and walking her two dogs.
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Catherine Cashmore - Buyer Advocate
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An honest and friendly approach has always worked well for Catherine who worked firstly as a professional international musician before turning her hand to real estate. Her keen eye for detail that served so well in her music career, will set the right note for you when hunting for that ‘special’ deal. Originally from the UK Catherine has found a passion for the Victorian real estate market. Working first as a sales agent for a leading real estate agency, she now enjoys taking the stress out of the house hunting process for her clients and has built up a large body of experience as a buyer and negotiator.
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Justin Lilburne - Buyer Advocate
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Justin brings excellent networking and the ability to find off market properties to his clients. Over the last 5 year he has worked as both a real estate agent as well as a buyer’s advocate. The result is a well rounded perspective of the industry and a greater understanding of client requirements. With a full agent’s licence and a straight forward approach Justin continues to keep his finger on the pulse of Melbourne’s market.
When not renovating Justin enjoys surfing, racquet ball and all things motor sport.
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Warren Parker - Communications Manager
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Warren comes to JPP as a past client involved in several property purchases, both for himself and on behalf of members of his family. As such he is primed to understand our processes not only from our position, but from your perspective as well. Combined with a solid background in customer service starting in hospitality and ultimately ending in finance, his passion for property has him feeling right at home and eager to assist with your quest to secure your home or investment.
Outside of work, he is in the final stages of his bachelor of business and enjoys cycling, skiing and scuba-diving any chance he gets.
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Daniel James - Admin / PA
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Daniel is an energetic and enthusiastic addition to the team. With a
thorough background in retail sales he has recently completed the REIV Agent’s Representative course. In his spare time he enjoys Ballroom and Latin dancing
with his partner, Charlotte and has a wide variety of experience performing in front of an audience. He
is currently looking at purchasing his first home.
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Chris Thursfield - IT Manager and Researcher
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Chris has a background in sales and the technical side of the computer industry.
He has worked for a number of years as a front line sales person and therefore understands
the pressure the Real Estate industry can bring to bear. He comes to JPP with a love for
property and is looking forward to developing our systems to meet the ever changing requirements of our IT needs.
Chris's free time is spent with his interest of computers and anything electronic as well as
studying for his Microsoft Engineering degree.
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Fees and Guarantees |
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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 $7000 plus GST.
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Do I have to pay for our first meeting?
No. |
Do we receive money from selling agents,
mortgage brokers, solicitors or other third
parties?
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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.
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What's our guarantee?
If you are not completely happy with our
service and we haven't yet made a purchase for
you, then we will refund your engagement fee upon your request.
That is not a mis-print - Yes we are offering a money back guarantee.
We have no interest in any of the properties we recommend.
We are qualified and licensed by the REIV 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.
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Your Privacy |
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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.
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Declarations, Conflicts & Risks |
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Owing to the amount of properties JPP Buyer Advocates purchases, there are plenty of times where conflict is possible. However we have always felt it's not the conflict itself, but how you handle it as being the real issue. This is how we handle conflicts.
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Crystal Ball
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.
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It can be a conflict to receive money from a selling agent
Our solution We never receive any money
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It can be a conflict to receive money from a past client when they are selling
Our solution We never receive any money from past clients for selling. We do not sell.
If a current client is interested in buying the property of a past client, we would always act for the current client. The past client knows we will do this. There are benefits for our current clients in having many past clients. However to date, a current client has not bought a past client's property. We also declare to the current client that we know the seller (vendor) and have acted for them in the past.
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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 fixed fee at the start so as we can't be seen to be encouraging you to spend more for our benefit.
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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. This
does occasionally happen as we deal with a lot
of investors and some of our owner occupier clients change their
YOUR NEEDS profile. Our solution to this
difficult issue is communication :
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We would tell both parties
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We would prepare the same Property Report in all aspects except YOUR NEEDS.
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However we discuss no client details with other clients.
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While we CANNOT encourage one party NOT to bid (e.g. have our own private auction to determine a winner), we can inform if one party is no longer interested.
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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.
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Charities and Organisations |
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JPP Buyer
Advocates has and will continue to support many
charities throughout the years. A short list of some
of the charities of choice which are chosen by our
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