Buying a home to live in
Off market. Below market value. With a team behind every decision.
How it works
Buying on your own
6 to 9
months
The typical time for someone searching, negotiating and buying on their own.
With Bothsides
4 to 12
weeks
From engagement to offer accepted, with the search and the negotiation handled by the team.
Most of that difference is step one.
Step one
Work out what you can afford and what you actually want, then write the brief before the search begins. Done in a free 45 minute strategy session.
Step two: begin the search, six ways in
Public listings. Everything advertised. This is where Bothsides starts, not where it stops.
Pre-market lists. Homes agents send out before they are advertised.
Off market. Homes an agent brings straight to Bothsides. Plenty are never listed at all.
Straight to the owner. The streets you want, approached directly, with no competing buyers.
Agents who go looking for you. Relationships from more than 100 Bothsides Podcast interviews. These agents prospect on your behalf.
The Bothsides database. Owners already known to the team, built in house.
Step three: once a home is found
Every property runs through the same checks in the same sequence, so what matters surfaces early rather than after you have fallen for the place.
You can love the house. Dan and Josh handle the offer, so the price is not set by how much you want it.
Bothsides works with your broker and conveyancer while the search is still on, so when the right home appears you are ready to move in days.
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33 checks across the land, the title, the building, the area and the price, in the order to run them, with who answers each one and a summary page to fill in before you make an offer.
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Homes already bought
Newtown NSW
+$180,000
equity in 10 months
$1,600,000 paid, $1,780,000 valued
Desktop valuation, Mar 2026
Erina NSW
+$81,000
equity in 11 months
$910,000 paid, $991,000 valued
Bank valuation, Mar 2026
Both figures sit in the full eleven, with every source and date shown. See every purchase.
How homes have been found
Newcastle NSW, apartment
The brief narrowed to one beachfront building and a range of floors. Bothsides letterbox dropped the building and approached the owners directly, which turned into an off market purchase. The same buyer also bought in Brisbane, again off market.
One street, house
The buyer wanted a particular street. Bothsides built a database of 265 properties that matched the budget and brief, then gave it to the top performing local agent to work. It produced an off market purchase.
Changing cities
An expat couple relocating from Sydney's Northern Beaches to the Central Coast, and another buyer moving from Castle Hill to Brisbane. Bothsides ran both searches and both purchases for them.
Off the plan
Two apartments on the same floor, combined into a single home. The result is penthouse floor space a level or two below the penthouse, without the price that name carries. It took months to find and negotiate.
What it costs
One fee, quoted on the call
What you pay depends on the home you are after and how complex the brief is, so Dan gives you the exact number on the call. It is free to talk, and nothing is payable unless you engage.
No. Most clients are investors, and the same team buys homes to live in, held to the same standard.
The fee depends on what you are buying, so Dan quotes it on the call once he knows the brief and the asset type, and it is the same conversation whether you go ahead or not. Half is paid when you engage and half when the contract becomes final, and it covers the search however long it takes. Almost everything Bothsides buys is below market value, and that discount is what to weigh the fee against.
Not necessarily. The best time to buy is when you have borrowing capacity you are not using. A falling market offers better prices and less competition, and a rising one builds equity faster. General information only, not financial advice.
About an hour before the search starts: the intro call and the strategy session. The team then runs the search, due diligence, negotiation and your broker, accountant and conveyancer. Your part is a yes or no on each property presented.
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