Buying with Ironbark
Our buyer advocacy process takes three main forms: Full Search Service, Negotiate and Secure and Auction Bidding.
Full Search Service
Our Full Search Service is comprehensive and allows you to sit back, relax and enjoy the search. We take the reins and find the best options available which suit your brief and budget. Because of the way we structure our fees, there is no pressure to buy your home within a certain amount of time. We keep working until we find the right property for you.
Our professional standing within the real estate industry as buyer advocates affords us streamlined communication with agents and access to property before it is advertised. By applying analysis and removing the emotion from a property transaction, we help you identify the most important aspects of a property to you and negotiate on your behalf in an uncompromised fashion. Having the experience of Ironbark Property Advocates behind you provides reassurance and guidance through what can be a stressful, but should be a thoroughly enjoyable, process.
Our Property Search Process
Formulate the brief
Property location, style, size, price
Before we begin our work on the ground, we have detailed discussions with you about your brief: what size, type and age of property you’re looking for, in what area, at what price. We discuss your preferences and the non-negotiable aspects of your ideal property, so we have a solid understanding of the brief before launching our search.
Scour the market
Rest easy while we search on your behalf
We hit the ground inspecting available properties and form a shortlist of the best options. This is not limited only to public open for inspections. We speak to agents in the areas you are searching in and find out what other properties they have coming up for sale. Early access and off market access to properties are the result of our agent communication during this phase and are of great benefit to you.
Inspect together
Spend time with us inspecting the shorlist
When we are confident that we have found the best options within your brief, we make arrangements to view the top 5-10 properties with you. This ensures that we understand your brief, and you understand the property options within the parameters of your brief. If the right property isn’t on the shortlist yet, we make any adjustments needed, and keep on searching to find it.
Advice and analysis
Understand the value and quality of property
During our inspections together we will provide advice regarding the value and quality of each property inspected. If you select a property to purchase, we prepare an appraisal of value using comparable market analysis and provide guidance as to current market value.
Due diligence
Ensure everything is in order
Once you have identified a property to purchase, we assist you in completing due diligence. We help you arrange for the Contract of Sale to be reviewed by a solicitor, can arrange a pest and building inspection, make enquiries with the relevant council, and help you examine planning schemes and overlays if necessary.
Negotiate to secure
Strategise and implement
When you are satisfied with the property quality and result of the due diligence, we formulate a strategy to purchase. This will differ depending on the method of sale. Our experience and insight holds us in good stead over competitors because we know what to do and when to do it. If we don’t manage to buy the property, we go back to scouring the market and repeat the shortlisting process until we find and buy your ideal property.
Negotiate and Secure
You have found the right property, and you’d like us to step in and secure it for you. A word of advice: make sure you engage us sooner rather than later. Property is selling at breakneck speed in Victoria and if you delay, you may miss the opportunity.
There are many ways that Ironbark Property Advocates provide an advantage to you, simply by taking over the negotiation. Having professional insight and ability to communicate with agents is a key highlight of this service. We frequently speak to people who lament that they missed out on buying a property they could have offered more for, just because they didn’t understand the purchase process.
Our Negotiate and Secure package includes the following steps from the Full Search Service:
- Advice and analysis
- Due diligence, and
- Negotiate to secure

Auction Bidding
Auctions are far more complex than arriving and hoping for the best. In the case of an auction, failing to plan is most definitely planning to fail. Sadly, many people approach an auction underprepared and without an idea of their maximum purchase budget or a strategy.
Employing Ironbark Property Advocates to represent you on auction day means you are employing a professional bidder to execute a well thought-out plan and capitalise on their experience. Having a qualified professional on your side if a property passes in to you can make tens of thousands of dollars worth of difference to the sale price.

Professional representation really does make a difference.
Give yourself the advantage by employing a qualified property expert.
Tertiary level qualification
Years of buyer advocacy experience
Negotiation expertise
Gain off market property access
Gain strategic insight
Save time & money
Receive current market value advice
Receive investment grade advice
Licensed Estate Agent
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Let us help you get into the market
