Commercial Real Estate
Buyers Agency
Dedicated buyer representation. We act only for the purchaser, and only to a defined acquisition strategy.
We source opportunities on and off market, assess them with discipline, and run the due diligence in full: financial modelling, consultant engagement, and coordination of finance through to settlement. For clients acquiring at scale or from interstate, the difference is acquiring to strategy rather than reacting to whatever happens to be listed.
Acting exclusively for the purchaser changes the economics of the advice. There is no listing to protect and no vendor to please. The only measure of the engagement is whether the asset acquired serves the strategy it was bought for, on terms that withstand scrutiny.
The engagement
Six stages, each with a deliverable.
An acquisition mandate runs to a sequence, and the client should know at every stage what has been done and what comes next. This is how the engagement unfolds, and what we put in your hands at each step.
- 01
Define the mandate
The engagement opens with the investment brief: asset class, sector and geography, income profile, capital constraints and target returns. We put the mandate in writing so every recommendation that follows can be measured against it.
You receive
A documented acquisition mandate, agreed before any property is considered.
- 02
Source the opportunities
We work the market on your behalf: agents, owners, receivers, developers and our own database, alongside formal campaigns. Off-market opportunities surface through relationships built over many years on the selling side of these transactions.
You receive
A qualified shortlist, each entry accompanied by our reasoning against the mandate.
- 03
Inspect and evaluate
Shortlisted assets are inspected and interrogated on both technical and financial grounds: tenancy schedules, rental evidence, outgoings, building condition, capital works exposure and the assumptions a future purchaser will one day apply.
You receive
A written assessment and financial model for each asset taken forward.
- 04
Negotiate
We negotiate price, structure and conditions with the discipline of a party that has no emotional stake in the outcome. Where the numbers stop supporting the mandate, we say so and step back.
You receive
Negotiated heads of agreement on terms that survive scrutiny.
- 05
Due diligence to settlement
We coordinate the consultants, the financiers and the lawyers, and manage the examination of every closing document, so that due diligence confirms the deal rather than reopening it.
You receive
A managed transaction through exchange, due diligence and settlement.
- 06
Beyond settlement
Ownership is where the group's structure earns its keep. Management, leasing, debt advisory and, in time, disposal are available within Transact, carried out by people who already know the asset.
You receive
Continuity: management, leasing, finance and eventual realisation under one relationship.
Also from Capital
Acquiring to a strategy, or ready to define one?
Start with the mandate conversation. We will tell you candidly what the market can deliver against it.