Strategy & buyer plan
We start with your intake and a 60-minute strategy session: budget, areas, priorities and compromises. You receive a personalised buyer plan and practical search tools.
Intake + 60-min session
YOUR SEARCH. OUR GUIDANCE.You lead the search.
You lead the search.
We guide the purchase.
Find and inspect homes yourself, without making every important decision alone. We build your strategy, review your shortlist, advise on your offer and stay with you through settlement. You keep control, with buyer-side advice beside you.
Book a 15-minute fit call01 The selling agent represents the seller
The seller has an agent.
You deserve advice on your side.
The seller has appointed the selling agent to represent their interests. When you buy alone, you have no buyer-side adviser in your corner.
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01 / WITHOUT DIY BUY
You face the seller's side alone.
02 / WITH DIY BUY
You have advice on your side.
✕ On your ownSearching without a clear briefListings and agent conversations set the pace, while you try to decide what is worth pursuing.
✓ With DaviesUsing a personalised buyer planYour buyer plan gives you priorities, boundaries and useful trade-offs before you spend weekends inspecting.
✕ On your ownRelying on the listing and agent’s price guideYou work out the price, comparable sales, suburb context and risk questions by yourself.
✓ With DaviesReceiving a written reviewA desktop review with comparable sales, risks, overlays and questions to check, before you decide.
✕ On your ownResponding under pressureYou decide what to offer and say while the selling agent is working toward the seller’s preferred result.
✓ With DaviesPreparing your offer with adviceTalk through your offer approach, terms and limit with Taylor. You make and submit the offer.
02 How it works
One adviser beside you
at every decision point.
You remain the buyer and the decision-maker. You contact the selling agent, submit offers and negotiate. We help you move from uncertainty to a considered next step.
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Property review
Each week, get a written desktop review of a nominated property: price guidance, sold comparables, fit, risks and questions to check. View a real sample review below.
One written review per week
Private WhatsApp & Deal Room
Message Taylor privately whenever questions arise. We respond within one business day. The members’ Deal Room has two scheduled Q&A windows each week.
Direct access + community
Through settlement
After your offer is accepted, we provide advisory support through settlement: clarity on the sequence and dates, which professional to contact, and optional introductions.
Support after the yes
Searching, inspections, bidding and negotiation by Davies require a separate Property Pursuit or Full Service engagement. Taylor advises on evidence, offer approach, conditions and next steps. The client contacts the selling agent, submits offers and negotiates.
03 Your weekly property review
Understand the property
behind the listing.
Each week, get our professional perspective on a nominated property. Pricing and comparable-sales analysis, potential risks and how it fits your brief, with clear questions and checks before your next step.
Before you commit, ask yourself
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What risks are involved?
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What am I missing?
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Could I be paying too much?
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What should I check before I commit?
A great inspection does not tell the whole story. Understand the price, potential red flags and what still needs checking.
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Fit + compromises
How it matches your buy box, what works and where you would be compromising.
Price + sales evidence
An indicative price range, relevant sold comparables and the reasoning behind it.
Suburb + position
Location context, amenity and street-level considerations relevant to your needs.
Zoning + overlays
Available planning and hazard information, with sources and checks still required.
Risks + unknowns
Concerns apparent from the information reviewed and what cannot yet be confirmed.
Your next steps
Questions for the agent and checks to arrange with your solicitor or other specialists.
Desktop guidance only. No physical inspection, formal valuation or complete due diligence. Specialist checks remain separate.
04 You have someone to ask
Your search.
A shared advantage.
Send us your questions as they come up. We respond within one business day. Flag urgent property deadlines early.
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Private WhatsApp access
Direct with us, throughout your search
These two properties are so different. How should I compare them?
Start with your three non-negotiables. Then compare the compromises and ongoing costs.
That helps. Could you review the one that fits my brief best?
An example of the questions we work through together.
The members-only community deal room
Two group Q&A sessions each week
More perspectives.
Better questions.
Your membership connects you with other DIY Buy buyers in a members-only community. Bring your questions to two weekly group Q&A sessions, learn from the decisions others are working through and take those insights into your own search.
You benefit from more than the questions you think to ask.
Included in your DIY Buy membership
Keep property details and personal information in private chat. Calls can be arranged when useful; there is no standing weekly call.
05 After your offer is accepted
Accepted offer?
We stay in your corner.
An accepted offer is a milestone, not the finish line. We help you understand the next steps and stay connected through the run-up to settlement.
Next-step clarity
Know the sequence and key dates after acceptance, and which appointed professional to contact at each stage.
Professional introductions
Optional contacts for legal, building and pest, and finance support. You choose the professionals you engage.
Through to settlement
Advisory support continues through settlement. We do not give legal, finance, building or pest advice, or manage the contract for you.
DIY Buy advisory support through settlement means clarity on the sequence and dates, and which appointed professional to contact. Specialist advice remains with the relevant professional.
06 Price and payment
$3,300 including GST
for 12 weeks of support.
One total fee. Two ways to pay. The total is identical either way.
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What your engagement includes
✓Intake and 60-minute strategy session
✓Personalised buyer plan and search tools
✓Shortlisted properties reviewed
✓Private WhatsApp access, response within one business day
✓Members’ Deal Room with two weekly Q&A windows
✓Offer approach, terms and limit advice
✓Advisory support through settlement
Upgrade to Full Service
If you upgrade to Full Service, your DIY Buy payments already made are credited toward the Full Service engagement fee, capped at that engagement fee. DIY billing stops when Full Service begins. No cash refund for any excess.
DIY Buy is advisory only. You handle searching, inspections, selling-agent contact, offers and negotiation. Reviews are desktop guidance, not formal valuations or complete due diligence. Searching, inspections, bidding and negotiation by Davies require a separate Property Pursuit or Full Service engagement.
Your search doesn't run on a clock12 weeksNO EXTRA SERVICE FEE
IF YOU'RE STILL SEARCHING
IF YOU'RE STILL SEARCHING
07 The continuation guarantee
Still searching after 12 weeks?
We stay with you at no extra service fee.
An active buyer who has not purchased can continue the same capped DIY Buy advisory support at no additional service fee while their brief and funding capacity remain materially viable and unchanged.
We review the arrangement every 12 weeks.Eligibility is assessed against your original brief and funding capacity.
A material change may require a new strategy.A material change in budget, location, timing, purchase purpose or finance may require a new strategy, with any new fee quoted and agreed first.
This guarantees continued eligible support, not a purchase or a saving.
Book a 15-minute fit call08 Good questions
Know what
you're signing up for.
DIY Buy suits hands-on buyers who want experienced advice without handing over the property search.
Start with a conversation
Keep the search.
Add the support.
Tell us what you're looking to buy and where you want a second opinion. We'll work out whether DIY Buy is the right fit.
