Lunch & Learn – How to Buy a Dud Property (Or Avoid It!)

How to Buy a Dud Property (Or Avoid It!)

In an interactive session, Mike will outline the mistakes you need to avoid, and the resources you need to succeed when buying a home.

Buying a home is usually the biggest purchase of your life, with stamp duty and other costs. You just cannot afford to make a mistake. Buyers Agent, Mike McNamara has been buying property for homebuyers and investors for 10 years, keeping his clients from a ‘mistake purchase’, while securing for them the property they want, at the lowest possible price. In an interactive session, Mike will outline the mistakes you need to avoid, and the resources you need to succeed.

In this “Lunch and Learn”, Mike McNamara will discuss:

• The state of the Melbourne home market in 2023-24.
• Getting ready to buy your first or later property.
• Mistakes you need to avoid.
• Resources you need to succeed.
• Getting it right: Brief, Search, Targeting, Due Diligence, Bidding/Buying

About the Speaker

Mike McNamara is a professional Buyers Agent, Director of Strategic Buyers Agents and licensed by the Victorian Government’s Business Licencing Authority.

Strategic Buyers Agents is a ‘bespoke’ buyer’s advocacy firm that buys property for homebuyers and investors in Melbourne, Bendigo and Ballarat, and also in Sydney, Brisbane and Gold Coast through his Interstate Buyers Agents network. Mike also acts a Vendor Advocate, a ‘project manager’ for owners wanting to sell their property.

Qualified as a Chartered Accountant, and with an MBA which focused on strategy, Mike has built a real estate portfolio over the past 20 years and has been a buyer’s agent/advocate for over 8 years. While selling agents represent vendors, Mike is 100% focused on his clients’ property wants and needs, whether for a home or investment. His mission is to save clients time, stress and money, whilst buying them a better property.

In the media, Mike is a former presenter on the weekly Bricks and Mortar Show on 3WBC 94.1FM, a commentator to articles in the Herald Sun, and occasionally speaks on Melbourne property trends with Radio New Zealand. Each month about 800 subscribers receive his buying insights in his Finger On The Pulse property e-newsletter.

As a guest speaker on a range of property topics for banks, real estate groups and professional associations, Mike believes audiences learn more if they are entertained along the way. Property buying for a home or investment is a serious outlay, but talking property doesn’t have to be all serious.