A buyer's agent in Perth, working to an actual plan.
A buyer\'s agent who finds the place, checks it over properly and does the negotiating for you across Perth, through a licensed partner firm. A fixed fee from $10,000 plus GST, a free first conversation, and your financial planning thrown in.
How it is set up.
Balki does not personally hold a buyer's agent licence. The licence sits with a third-party partner that operates across every Australian state, including WA. The engagement is coordinated under the Opes brand. Inspections, checking the place over and negotiation are conducted by the licensed partner.
You meet the agent assigned to you during that free first conversation. You deal with Opes; the licence sits with the partner. We tell you this on the first call, not in small print at the bottom of a contract.
Our office is in Melbourne and you meet Balki over video. The Perth partner does all the legwork in person — including Saturday home opens in Subiaco, weekday walk-throughs in Claremont, and pre-offer meetings in Cottesloe or Fremantle.
Where we buy in Perth.
Most of what we buy in Perth falls into three areas. What you tell us at the start decides where the search begins. The partner network covers all of them.
Cottesloe, Subiaco, Claremont. Character stock, larger blocks, established family briefs and downsizer apartments.
Cottesloe through to Fremantle. Coastal owner-occupier stock, with renovator and knock-down rebuild opportunities through the corridor.
Ellenbrook, Forrestfield. House-and-land and new-build stock for first home buyers and yield-focused investors.
We can also buy commercial property across Perth, including inside a super fund.
What’s included.
Working out the brief
What you can spend, what you want and by when — written down. It changes as you see what's out there, but you start with it clear.
Research on the areas
What similar places actually sold for, how long they sat, and how the area has grown. We'll tell you straight which suburbs don't suit what you're after.
Finding places
Places that are advertised, and plenty that never are, through relationships with selling agents. Common across the western suburbs.
Inspections and checks
Building inspections, strata records, council and zoning checks. Saturday home opens across Perth are just part of the job for the partner agent.
Negotiation
WA-style offer and acceptance negotiation, vendor terms, private treaty. Auction bidding is rarer in Perth but offered where it applies.
Getting to settlement
Loose ends between the WA settlement agent, broker and selling agent. The buyer is not the one chasing the file.
What it costs.
Fixed fee from $10,000 + GST. The same fee for owner-occupied and investment briefs. The price of the house doesn’t change what you pay us. Perth files typically sit in the $600,000 to $1,500,000 range, with western suburbs files going higher, and the fee still doesn’t move. The wider buyer's agent cost guide walks through fixed versus percentage pricing.
The first conversation is free. The fee comes down if we are also doing your loan or your financial plan. Investor briefs typically connect into the wider property investment hub, with returning expats a regular pattern on the WA book.
How buying a place fits with the loan and the plan.
Financial planning
What you want, what is coming in and going out, what you can borrow, and what happens if it goes wrong. Free for buyer's agent clients, and done over video in Perth.
Buyer's agent
Finding it, inspecting it, checking it and haggling over it, across all three Perth areas. Done by the licensed partner.
Broking
The loan, from a panel of more than 50 lenders. We write plenty of Perth loans.
Our office is in Melbourne. The Perth work happens in Perth.
Balki works from Docklands in Melbourne, and the planning and loan side of a Perth job runs over video. The licensed partner is on the ground in Perth doing the inspections, meeting the agents and negotiating.
The buyer's agent licence belongs to the partner firm. You deal with us. We explain exactly how that works on the first call.
- First call with us, over video.
- Inspections in Perth, with the partner, in person.
- One file, run between the two of us.
What buyers in Perth ask first.
Keep reading
- The buyer's agent workThe main page — how the partner model works, in every state.
- Fee breakdownWhat the fixed fee covers, and what brings it down.
- Investment buyer's agent serviceInvestor-specific briefs, cash-flow sequencing, portfolio building.
- Finding places before they are advertisedHow homes get sold before they're advertised — and when they don't.
- Perth financial plannerVirtual financial planning across WA. Free for BA clients.
- Perth mortgage brokerVirtual broking, 50+ national lender panel.
- The full property journeyEverything about buying an investment property, in one place.
Start with a free property consultation.
A straight conversation, the partner arrangement explained up front, and no obligation. Twenty to thirty minutes on video.