Award-winning buyer advocacy for Melbourne property buyers. Flat fee structure. Servicing Melbourne and Australia-wide.
Melbourne rewards buyers who understand how it actually transacts. More homes go to auction here than anywhere else in the country, and a Saturday campaign is usually won or lost on preparation that happened weeks earlier. Aus Property Professionals gives buyers that preparation, and someone in the room who has done it many times before.
Our role is easy to describe and hard to do well: we work only for the buyer. That means pricing a property honestly against what has actually sold, reading the Section 32 before you fall in love with the place, and holding a limit when the bidding turns emotional. Lloyd Edge and the team have been doing this across Melbourne for years, for first-home buyers, upgraders, downsizers and portfolio investors alike.
No single strategy covers this city. A heritage-overlaid terrace in Fitzroy North, a 1930s brick home in Camberwell sitting inside a sought-after school catchment, a new townhouse in Yarraville and a house-and-land package in Tarneit are four completely different purchases carrying four different risk profiles. We start by working out which one you are actually buying.
Bestselling author of Positively Geared and Buy Now, with more than 25 years of property experience. Lloyd and the team bring practical guidance to residential, investment and commercial purchases across Melbourne.
Selling agents are paid by the vendor to achieve the highest price. A buyers agent sits on the other side of that table. In Melbourne, where a quoted range and the eventual result can sit a long way apart, that independence is worth real money.
Most of our value shows up well before auction day: in ruling properties out, in knowing which comparable sales genuinely apply, and in spotting the owners corporation statement or building report that should change your number.
What we do for Melbourne buyers:
Melbourne has lagged the smaller capitals for growth since 2022, and that is precisely why it deserves a close look right now.
Relative value has opened up. The recovery here has been slower and more uneven than in Perth, Adelaide or Brisbane, which has taken some heat out of competition and left owner-occupiers more negotiating room than they had a few years ago. Inner-ring period stock remains tightly held and genuinely competitive. The apartment market, particularly newer towers around the CBD, Southbank and Docklands, is a very different and far more cautious conversation.
Victoria in Future projections have Greater Melbourne heading towards roughly 6.9 million people by 2041, so long-run demand is not really the question. The question is which suburbs absorb that growth well and which see supply arrive faster than amenity does. Land scarcity, established transport, school catchments and planning controls matter far more to that answer than any city-wide headline figure.
There are also Melbourne-specific costs to model properly. Victoria's land tax thresholds and the vacant residential land tax catch more investors than people expect, owners corporation fees on newer apartment stock can be substantial, and at auction there is no cooling-off period at all. We factor all of it in before you bid.
Aus Property Professionals helps buyers across Greater Melbourne make clearer, better-researched property decisions. Whether you are buying a home, an investment property, or a commercial asset, our team can help you compare suburbs, assess value, complete due diligence, and negotiate with confidence. Each region has different price points, property types, buyer demand and risk factors - our role is to help you understand those local differences before you commit.
We charge a flat fee, agreed before the search starts and unchanged by what you end up paying for the property. A percentage-based fee rises every time the price does, which puts your agent's interests on the wrong side of the negotiation.
Worth checking when you compare Buyers Agent Fees Melbourne, is what the number actually covers: how many auctions the agent will bid at, whether Section 32 and owners corporation review is included, and whether support continues all the way through to settlement. An engagement that quietly ends at contract signing is not the same service.
Three different briefs, three different approaches.
Home buyers usually come to us after a run of near-misses. The work is in narrowing the brief honestly, getting ahead of campaigns rather than reacting to them, and bidding without the emotion that costs people money on the day. It matters most if you are relocating, working to a settlement deadline, or competing inside a school catchment where demand concentrates into a handful of streets.
Investors need a colder read. We look at rental demand and vacancy at suburb level, land content versus building value, owners corporation exposure, Victorian land tax implications and who the next buyer will be when you sell. Melbourne's softer recent run means there is genuinely well-priced stock here, but there is also stock that will struggle, and telling the two apart is the job.
For commercial purchases, covering offices, retail, industrial and mixed-use assets, we work through yield, lease covenants, tenant quality, zoning, outgoings and the depth of demand if the tenancy ends.
You are engaging a process as much as a person: a defined brief, honest pricing, disciplined negotiation, and someone who will tell you to walk away.
Lloyd Edge founded Aus Property Professionals after building his own portfolio, and wrote Positively Geared and Buy Now off the back of it. He was named REINSW Buyers Agent of the Year in 2024. Across the team that is more than 25 years of buying property, experience that shows up most clearly in the deals we tell clients not to do.
What you get:
A buyers advocate works only for the buyer, the mirror image of the selling agent. In practice that means defining your brief, finding and shortlisting properties including off-market stock, pricing them against genuine comparable sales, reviewing the Section 32 and owners corporation records alongside your conveyancer, and then bidding at auction or negotiating a private sale on your behalf.
It depends on the model. Some agencies charge a percentage of the purchase price, which quietly rewards them for paying more. We charge a flat fee agreed before the search begins, so the figure does not move with the result. What matters as much as the number is the inclusions: how many auctions are covered, whether contract and owners corporation review is part of it, and whether the engagement runs through to settlement.
It depends on where you are buying. The case is strongest in auction-heavy inner and middle-ring suburbs, in tightly held school catchments, and for anyone buying from interstate or against a deadline. If you are purchasing something straightforward in a quiet pocket of the market with plenty of time on your side, the value is thinner, and we will say so.
That is a question about your position more than the market's. Borrowing capacity, deposit, how long you intend to hold and how secure your income is will shape the outcome more than trying to time the cycle. What is specific to Melbourne is that it has underperformed the smaller capitals since 2022, so buyers currently have more negotiating room here than in several other markets, which suits people buying to hold rather than anyone hoping for a quick gain.
Land content relative to building value, rental demand and vacancy measured at suburb level rather than city level, the quality of nearby transport and amenity, planning controls and incoming supply, owners corporation costs where they apply, Victorian land tax exposure, and who the likely buyer is when you eventually sell. A property that only works on a forecast rarely works in practice.
Yes, and it is one of the more common reasons people engage us. If you are in Sydney, Brisbane or overseas we inspect in person, give you a candid read on condition and street, handle the Victorian contract process which differs from other states, and bid or negotiate locally so you are not committing to a major purchase off photographs and a video walkthrough.
A selection of properties we’ve recently secured on behalf of clients across Australia.
A snapshot of some of the areas we cover - indicative house medians, 12-month change and gross rental yield, sourced from Cotality (CoreLogic) and Domain suburb data. A general guide only, and just a sample of where we buy; talk to us for a full market brief.
| Suburb | Region | Median (house) | 12mo growth | Gross yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toorak | Inner East | $5.20M | ▲ 2.0% | 1.5% |
| Brighton | Bayside | $3.55M | ▲ 2.6% | 1.7% |
| Hawthorn | Inner East | $2.55M | ▲ 1.8% | 2.2% |
| Richmond | Inner | $1.42M | ▲ 2.4% | 2.8% |
| Fitzroy | Inner North | $1.48M | ▲ 3.1% | 2.7% |
| South Yarra | Inner East | $2.05M | ▲ 1.5% | 2.3% |
| Kew | Inner East | $2.85M | ▲ 2.2% | 1.9% |
| Brunswick | Inner North | $1.30M | ▲ 3.4% | 2.9% |
| Malvern | Inner East | $3.10M | ▲ 2.0% | 1.8% |
| Werribee | West | $650k | ▲ 4.5% | 4.1% |
House medians & capital growth to 2026 - Cotality (CoreLogic) and Domain suburb reports. Gross yields shown where a reliable house figure was available. General information only, not investment advice.
If you are looking for a property buyers advocate Melbourne team to help assess the market and negotiate with confidence, talk to Aus Property Professionals. Call 1800 146 837 or send an enquiry to discuss your Melbourne property goals.
