With Real Estate Watchdogs on your team, you'll save thousands!


Property Reports

When buying and selling property, it is important that you have a true picture of the market price. Our Watchdog Property Report will provide you with an inspection of the property, a detailed written report including an estimate on what the property is worth in today's market, and how it might perform in the future.

For more details on this report please call 1800 118 023 or email info@realestatewatchdogs.com.au


Buying @ Auction

If you don't know the tricks used at auctions, you are certain to get hurt. Most auction agents have no regard for your feelings. They want a sale and they don't care who they hurt in the process.

Some would say if you are inexperienced at home buying, you should avoid auctions altogether. The financial loss of a few hundred dollars on wasted inspections is bad enough, but it is nothing compared to the emotional damage of discovering that the home you love was never in your price range.

With Real Estate Watchdogs on your team, buying your next home will be a pleasant and rewarding experience.

Here is a typical example of how we have saved buyers thousands at auction.

How Michael and Claire Saved $75,000

You may have seen this one on an episode of Hot Auctions showing a home that sold in Moonee Ponds for $490,000. Here's what happened.

First, the entertainment, a nice home that's been in the same nice family for years. Following the death of their mother, the children decide to sell. Then come the potential buyers. There's Michael the engineer with Claire the lecturer; Julie, the share-trader and then Richard, the family man; all real people in situations just like the rest of us, all wanting to find the right home.

The bidding starts and this is where viewers get some real entertainment only one of these nice buyers is going to buy. We are glued to our sets to see which buyer will win and which ones will lose. We share the misery of the losing bidders, but aren't allowed to dwell too long on this before we switch to the happy seller. They have got what they believe was a great price - $490,000. Smiles and congratulations all around. Great entertainment. We all feel good.

And the winning buyer? As the host Michael Caton, said: It was a "mystery man". And who was the mystery man? Well, Michael told us. He was a person bidding on behalf of Michael and Claire who had mysteriously not bid. Now the mystery was solved.

Michael Caton closed the show with this advice: "The lesson to be learnt: rather than trust yourself, give someone else a limit and they will stick to it because they are not carrying the emotional baggage you are." Good advice.

And now, the explanation of what the viewers didn't see.

The buyers did give the mystery man a limit. They gave him permission to bid up to $565,000.

The viewers never saw that bit. They saw the sellers smiling because they thought $490,000 was a good price. They saw the buyers smiling (and why wouldn't they when they had just bought for $75,000 below their limit?), and they saw the agent grinning because he just earned another fat commission for his hidden incompetence.


For more details on how we can save you thousands of dollars and lots of frustration please call 1800 118 023 or email info@realestatewatchdogs.com.au