Bought in Bensville NSWA house with room for a granny flat
Build a second small home in the back yard, so one property collects two rents.
Investing
Bothsides finds it, scores it and negotiates it. You make one decision.
Why Bothsides
Bothsides specialises in buying investment property for investors, business owners and high income earners, primarily on Australia's East Coast and anywhere else in the country a brief calls for. Many clients come back, often for their third property.
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.
Average Equity Gain
$173K
across eleven purchases, within 12 months. Assessed March 2026.
The difference is access and relationships, and a team that scores every property against the same four points.
“We don't recommend a property
unless we'd buy it ourselves.”
Dan Beardall
Founder, Bothsides Buyers Agency
What Bothsides buys
Six kinds of investment property
Bought in Bensville NSW
Bought in Toowoon Bay NSWA house that already has a granny flat
Two rents from the day it settles, with no building to do.
Bought in Morisset Park NSWTwo or three houses on one block
Several rents from one purchase, and the block can often be split and sold separately later.
Bought in Merewether NSWA small block of units
Four or five units bought together, so the income never rests on one tenant.
Bought in Morisset NSWA house bought under what it is worth
Usually one that needs work. The discount is the gain, and a renovation adds to it.
Bought in Wamberal NSWA block to build on
A site for a duplex, townhouses or a knock down rebuild, bought to build rather than hold.
New builds and off the plan
Considered case by case, with access through developer relationships. They rarely come at a discount, so they suit a buyer with the deposit ready and limited borrowing right now.
End to end
From first conversation to final handover
The same attention at every step, including after settlement. Calls get returned, questions get answered, and the work carries on after the keys.
01
Intro call
Free, 15 minutes. Where you are now, what the next purchase needs to do, and whether it fits.
02
Strategy session
45 minutes, free. Budget, asset type, location and structure settled before a property is searched.
03
Engagement
A six month agreement and a written brief. Half the fee now, half when the contract becomes final.
04
Property search
Six channels, most of it off market. Only what scores on the 4 Point Score is presented.
05
Due diligence
Rent, vacancy, what similar homes sold for, and what could go wrong, all checked before price is discussed.
06
Negotiation
Price is one lever. Deposit, cooling off and settlement length are the others, and the right terms often win what a higher price would not.
07
Settlement
Conveyancer, broker and property manager lined up to the keys, ready to rent from day one.
08
After settlement
Equity reviews, check-ins and a portfolio plan modelled 5, 10 and 25 years ahead.
What every investor gets
The numbers behind a purchase, before it is bought
Four things come with every investment purchase: a report on the suburb, a cashflow analysis of the property, the due diligence checklist and a portfolio plan.
Suburb Spotlight
A report on the suburb itself
Who lives there and how many own rather than rent, ten years of prices and sales, rents and vacancy, and how many buyers and renters are competing for each property.
Pages from a Suburb Spotlight report.
Cashflow analysis
What the property costs to buy and to hold
Purchase costs including stamp duty, rent after vacant weeks, every yearly expense, the loan, a depreciation estimate and a ten year projection, worked out for the specific property.
Layout shown. The figures are calculated for each property.
Due diligence checklist
33 checks, in the order to run them
The land, the title and contract, the building, the area and the price, checked in a set sequence so a problem surfaces before money is spent on reports. Rent and yield sit in the cashflow analysis.
The same checklist Bothsides gives home buyers.
Portfolio plan
Where this purchase leaves you in 25 years
Savings, equity, income and borrowing capacity, modelled across the purchases after this one on the client platform.
See the platform belowPortfolio planning
See 5, 10 and 25 years ahead, before signing anything
Every client gets a portfolio planning platform that models where you are now, maps the purchases after this one, and shows how the numbers move over time.
Included with every engagement
The engagement
What it costs
Investment purchases
One fee, quoted on the call
It depends on the asset type and how complex the brief is, so Dan gives you the exact number on the call once he knows what you are buying. Both calls are free, nothing is payable unless you engage, and the fee covers everything from the brief to settlement, however long the search takes.
Before you book
Questions worth asking first
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.
The buyer, and only the buyer. Bothsides acts for buyers, never vendors, and a property that does not score on the 4 Point Score is not presented. On new and off the plan stock, where a developer offers a fee, it comes off the purchase price or is refunded to the client, so the buyer is the only side paying.
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.
Bothsides is not a mortgage broker or credit provider and does not give tax or legal advice. It sets the structure alongside the purchase with your accountant, lawyer and broker, because how a property is held decides how easily the next one is financed. General information only.
Start here
Start with where you are now
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15 minutes, free. What the next purchase needs to do, and whether Bothsides is the right fit.
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