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Buyer's agent · Toowoomba
We buy homes in Toowoomba for people who are going to live in them. Most of what we buy is never advertised, which means the house you end up in is usually one you would never have found on your own.
Before we go any further
These are not categories we invented for a website. They are what people actually say in the first ten minutes of a call, near enough word for word. See how many you recognise.
Geographic restriction
Brisbane, the coast, interstate, overseas. You can read a listing but you cannot read a street, and the walkthrough video was shot by the person selling it. The question worth answering early is who is actually going to stand inside these houses for you. If the answer is a parent, a mate, or nobody, that is the gap.
Time poor
You are on realestate.com three or four times a day waiting for something that mostly does not appear. Then a Saturday goes on four inspections and three of them were obviously wrong from the photos. Between work and kids sport, the hours are not there and pretending otherwise just makes it take longer.
No access to stock
It all came off the same two portals on the same morning. You have never been shown a house before it was listed, or told about one that was withdrawn, or called about a price reduction before it went public. If a large share of the market moves quietly, and it does, you have been shopping in the part that does not.
Agent fatigue
A price guide that turns out to be a hundred thousand under what it takes. Being told there is another offer without ever being told what it looks like. You are not imagining any of it, and you are not going to out-stubborn people who negotiate for a living every day of the week.
Search fatigue
Six months, twelve, eighteen. A few offers gone. A partner who has stopped asking how it is going. This is the point where most searches quietly get put off until next year, and next year the same house costs more. Nobody plans that. It happens when the process outlasts the patience.
No independent voice
You may well be capable of doing this yourself. What you do not have is a second opinion with no stake in the outcome. Someone to tell you the house is wrong, or the number is too high, while you can still walk away from it without it hurting.
If none of those are you, you probably do not need us, and we would rather you worked that out here than after a forty five minute call.
The part nobody budgets for
Picture the version where nothing changes. Same search, same portals, same Saturdays. Where are you in six months? For most people the honest answer is not “somewhere worse”. It is “roughly here, except the market moved”.
That is the cost people never put a number on. Not the fee. The six months, and what the house you wanted is worth by the end of them.
If the with-us version and the without-us version look the same to you, you do not need a buyer's agent, and we will say so on the call. If they look different, that difference is the entire conversation.
The record
80+
Homes bought in Toowoomba
Across five years, including purchases negotiated at a previous agency.
94%
Sourced off market
Never advertised, never on a portal.
4.5%
Average saving
What our buyers paid, against comparable sales at the time.
20
Assessed per purchase
Inspected and ruled out, so you only see the ones worth your Saturday.
5 wk
Brief to contract
Across recent Toowoomba searches.
5 yr
Buying in this market
Five years of Toowoomba, in every condition.
Every pin is a house bought for a client. Pins show the suburb, not the address.
Why that number is possible
It is not that they like us more. It is that they can afford to.
A selling agent who mentions an unlisted property to an ordinary buyer has just created a risk for themselves. That buyer can take the address to a rival agency, or knock on the owner's door, and the agent loses the listing they were about to win. So they say nothing, or they say it late, once the campaign is already booked and you are one of forty people at an open home.
We cannot do that. We represent buyers and never sellers, we are not competing for their listing, and we transact with the same agents in the same suburbs often enough that they know exactly how we operate. So they tell us what is coming, what is quietly for sale, what has been withdrawn, and what has just had a price reduction that has not hit the portals yet.
That is the whole trick. There is nothing clever about it and it took years to build.
What we look for
Anyone can filter a portal down to four bedrooms and two bathrooms. The harder question, and the one that takes years in a market to answer, is whether a street will still be the kind of street you want to come home to in ten years. Whether the block does anything useful with its aspect. Whether the thing you love about the house is the thing that will make it hard to sell.
So we look at two houses at once. The one you are standing in on a Saturday, and the one you will eventually be trying to sell. If those two do not agree, we say so, even when you have already fallen for it.
That is most of the job. Not finding houses. Talking you out of the wrong ones.
Buying from somewhere else
Brisbane, the coast, interstate, overseas. Buying a home in Toowoomba from ninety minutes or nine hours away is the brief we get most, and it is the one where having someone in the market is worth the most.
We inspect in person and send you video and photos of anything worth seeing. Most of our clients drive up for a shortlist, not for a search. Some never see the house until it is theirs.
That is the real disadvantage of buying from out of town, and it is not about effort. It is about who the selling agent rings on a Tuesday. Ninety four per cent of what we have bought here was never advertised, which is the same advantage bought a different way.
Toowoomba does not read the way it looks in a search filter. School catchments, which side of the range you are on, what the block does with its aspect. Getting the half of town right matters more than getting the house right.
The patch
It is a city of about 180,000 spread along the crest of the Great Dividing Range, and it changes character every few kilometres. People from out of town treat it as one place, buy in the wrong half of it, and wonder why it did not work.
East Toowoomba, Rangeville, Mount Lofty, Redwood
The escarpment and everything that looks out over it. Queens Park and the Botanic Gardens sit in here, Picnic Point is at the end of it, and Toowoomba Grammar and Fairholme are both close enough to walk. This is where the Federation villas and the big gabled Queenslanders are, some of them on the heritage register. Top of the market, and tightly held.
North Toowoomba, Harlaxton, Rockville, out to Highfields
Two very different buys in the same direction. Closer in it is older housing on flat, workable blocks, with Downlands on Ruthven Street. Keep driving north and it opens into Highfields and Blue Mountain Heights, where the land gets bigger and most of the housing is new.
Centenary Heights, Middle Ridge, Kearneys Spring, Darling Heights, Harristown
Where a lot of families end up. Centenary Heights State High and Harristown State High are both here, the university sits at Darling Heights and Middle Ridge holds the golf club and the newer end of the housing. Mostly post war and mid century brick and tile on blocks you can actually use, and the widest spread of prices in the city.
Newtown, Wilsonton, Glenvale, Drayton
The value end, and the half of town people from out of the area write off too quickly. The Glennie School and St Ursula's are both in Newtown. Glenvale carries the newest estates on this side. Drayton is one of the oldest parts of the district. Bigger land, lower entry, and the pocket where getting the street right matters most.
What you actually want is what decides where we look. A low set brick and tile on a flat block is everywhere in one half of this city and almost impossible to find in the other. Same with a cottage, a Queenslander, a block with room for a shed, or a school catchment you cannot move on. Most people arrive with a suburb in mind and it is the wrong one. We start with the house and work backwards to the streets that hold it.
A few of them
A cross section rather than a highlight reel. The full published record, with the comparable sales and the number of properties knocked back on each one, is on the Advocated page.
$830,000
$790,000
Bought off market
$760,000
Bought off market
$715,000
Bought off market
$700,000
Bought off market
$620,000
Bought off market
In their words
His knowledge during inspections, strategy and negotiations was incredibly helpful. Thanks to Troy we found the perfect house we were after and were able to secure it at a really great price below market value. He was always responsive, honest and genuinely invested in getting the right outcome for us.
Bek G.
Bought in Toowoomba
We knew we likely would not buy in our own area, so we relied on Troy and the team for market research, attending inspections, presenting off market opportunities and managing the whole process through to settlement. Extremely reliable, high communication, and his advice was always on point.
Sarah P.
Bought in Toowoomba
The properties presented were off market and not advertised online, which gave us a clear advantage as buyers. Sourcing, selection, due diligence, inspections, building and pest, all of it was handled seamlessly by Troy and Nick. The team never rushed us and always acted with our best interests in mind.
Sonny D.
Bought in Toowoomba
After we spent months struggling to find the right property on our own, Troy secured an incredible off market opportunity within just two weeks. He provided detailed cost analysis and ran multiple scenarios that gave us total confidence in the numbers.
Denise C.
Bought in Toowoomba
What stood out pretty quickly is how well he knows the property market. He picks up on things I would not even think about and gives straight, practical advice without any fluff. There is a level of trust there that is hard to find.
Tyson H.
Bought in Toowoomba
Troy was absolutely amazing in helping my partner and I purchase our first property. He guided us through every step and made sure we felt comfortable throughout the whole process. I would absolutely recommend him to anyone looking for the right place.
Lachlan B.
Bought in Toowoomba
Two ways in
Some people have already found the house and want someone else in the room when the number gets decided. Others want the whole thing off their plate. Every one is a flat fee agreed before we start, never a percentage of a price we negotiated, which means we have no reason to talk you into spending more.
Assess and negotiate
For buyers who have found one and need to know
$7,500 per property
You have found a house and you are about to make the largest purchase of your life on a feeling. We put it through the same test everything else failed, give you a written yes or no with the reasoning, and if it is a yes, we negotiate it for you.
End to end
For buyers who want it handled
From $15,000
Strategy, market selection, sourcing, inspections, due diligence, negotiation and settlement. You approve every decision, we do every piece of work between them. Six clients at a time, so you are never in a queue.
By invitation
For buyers who will wait for the right one
From $12,500
You cannot buy your way onto this. We hold a short list of briefs, and when a house crosses our desk that fits one of them, that client sees it before anyone else does. The only way on is to tell us precisely what you are after.
Worth knowing
Engage us for The Full Service within 90 days and your $7,500 Verdict fee comes straight off it.
The Verdict is priced per property, and most buyers lose the first house they fall for. By the second or third go you have spent what The Full Service costs, without the search or the off market access.
Before you ask
Yes. We work with people buying a place to live and with people buying to rent out. The difference is what we weigh. For a home we are looking at the street, the aspect, the school catchment, the commute, the layout for how you actually live. What does not change is that the house still has to hold its value, because one day you will sell it.
You do not need to drive up every weekend. We inspect in person, send you video and photos of what is worth seeing, and you come up for the ones that matter. Most of our clients live somewhere other than the suburb they buy in. Six of the eight reviews on our homepage are from buyers who did exactly this.
That depends on things only you can answer, so it is the first conversation we have. Which school, if any. Whether someone is commuting down the range. Whether you want a character home you will maintain or a brick and tile you will not. The answer is different for a family with a Year 7 starting next year than for a couple downsizing, and we would rather ask than guess.
Across the homes we have bought in Toowoomba, 94 per cent were never advertised. That comes from years of dealing with the same selling agents in the same suburbs, so we hear about a house before a campaign is booked. It matters most for owner occupiers, because you are not bidding against a portal full of other buyers who saw it the same morning you did.
Flat fees, published up front. The Verdict assesses and negotiates a single property you have already found at $7,500, and that fee is credited against The Full Service if you engage us within ninety days. The Full Service runs end to end from $15,000. The fee does not move based on what we pay for the house, so we have no reason to talk you up.
It varies with how specific the brief is. A wide brief moves fast. A narrow one, a particular street on a particular side of town, takes as long as it takes. We would rather wait for the right house than fill a deadline with the wrong one.
Agreements run for six months. If nothing meets the brief in that time, you are free to walk away. We would rather buy nothing than put you in a house we would not buy ourselves.
Six clients at a time
Forty five minutes, no cost, no pitch deck. Bring your borrowing capacity and a rough idea of the life you want up there. We will tell you honestly whether you need us, and if Toowoomba is the wrong market for what you are after, we will tell you that too. Nobody gets sold anything on a first call.