Property Services

Buying your first home

The agreement, the conditions and the reports, explained before you sign rather than after. What a finance condition really commits you to, what the building report is telling you, and what happens between offer and keys.

Moving home

Usually a sale and a purchase that have to settle on the same day, with a bank in the middle. Most of the risk sits in the timing, and it is managed before the dates are agreed, not afterwards.

Investors

How the property is held, what the title allows you to do with it, and the tenancy position you are inheriting. Structure decided early is far cheaper than structure corrected later.

Business premises

Buying or leasing somewhere to trade from. Zoning and consents, what the lease actually obliges you to, and whether the building suits the use you intend.

Developers

Land bought to subdivide or build on, where the consent conditions, the title timing and the construction contracts all have to line up with each other.

Buying from overseas

Whether the Overseas Investment Act applies to you and to the property, settled before you make an offer. This is the one that stops transactions dead, and it is entirely avoidable.