Independent property investment agency and licensed buyer's agents
The right property for your position, first purchase or fifth.
Our only income is your fee, so the plan you get is the one we would follow with our own money.
Before we look at a single property, we work out what your next purchase has to achieve. If buying is the wrong move for you this year, we will say so on the first call.
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Where do property investors go wrong?
Not the property: the order of the decisions. Most investors come unstuck on sequencing, on buffers and on purchases made years apart that never fitted together, not on suburb selection. Information is free and everywhere; what is missing is a way to judge which of it applies to your position, this year, at your borrowing capacity.
Buffers are not optional
A buffer is the cash that lets you hold through a rate rise, a vacancy or a repair without selling. Most portfolios that fail did not run out of growth. They ran out of buffer.
Order matters more than selection
The same three investment properties bought in a different sequence produce a different portfolio. Sequencing is the part almost nobody sells you, because it is not a transaction.
Most advice is funded by a sale
A great deal of property investing advice in Australia is paid for by whoever is selling the stock. That does not make it dishonest. It makes it structurally unable to say wait.
The ten risks we check for, and how each one is caught, are in our guide to managing property investment risk.
Most investors are not short on information. They are short on clarity.
Get RARE client figures, as at 10 August 2026. See the client stories.
4.9 on Google across 199 reviews, read 28 September 2026.
What does a property investment agency do before showing you a property?
Reads your position first: what you own, what it earns and what it costs to hold, what you can borrow, and what you want the next ten years to look like. Only then does the conversation turn to whether to buy at all. Sometimes the right move is to buy, sometimes to wait, sometimes to review the portfolio before committing more.
Good strategy is mostly subtraction. Most of what looks like an opportunity does not fit your goals or the years you have left to run. Removing those first is the work.
Consultant, advisor, strategist, buyers agent: what the labels mean
Australian property investment advice is not a licensed activity. Buyer's agency is. That is the whole difference. It is also why none of these titles are protected. Each one means whatever the firm using it decides.
A property investment advisor at one business does the same job a property strategist does at another. A property investment agency and a property investment advisory can be the same office with two websites. An investment property agent may simply be a salesperson with a different business card.
Get RARE is an independent property buyers agency: licensed buyer's agents who act for the buyer only. For the licensed role explained in full, read what a buyers agent does.
Three questions to ask anyone
Every firm advertises expert advice, and those words cost nothing to print. Three questions do the work instead.
1. Who pays them?
2. What happens to their fee if you decide to wait?
3. Do they hold property themselves?
Why use an independent property investment agency?
Because a firm paid only by you can say wait. Nobody but you pays us: no developer commissions, no referral fees in either direction, and on residential purchases a flat fee fixed by price bracket that you know before you engage. We stay in our lane on finance, tax and super, and point you to your own adviser for those. Four commitments sit underneath that.
No developer commissions
We hold no stock and we promote none, so nobody selling property pays us anything, in any form.
No referral fees, either way
We do not pay introducer fees and we do not accept them. If we point you to a broker or an accountant, nothing moves between us.
Clients pay us directly
Fixed by price bracket on residential purchases, so our fee does not rise with the price you pay. Commercial briefs are quoted before you engage. How we charge is set out on our buyers agent fees page.
We stay in our lane
We do not advise on property finance, super, tax or insurance, and we are not property managers. Property management is a separate business we take no fee from. We work alongside the people who do those jobs, and we say plainly when a question is theirs.
How to check any of this for yourself
What you can check is the licence. Get RARE holds real estate agent licences in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, and each state regulator publishes a public register you can search. We are members of PIPA, REINSW, REIV, REIQ and REIA. Our award and finalist placings are published by REINSW and REB, so you do not have to take our word for those either.
We work with Australian property investors nationally, and we buy where the strategy points rather than where we happen to live. If you want the local view first, start with our buyers agent Sydney page or our buyers agent Melbourne page.
Who leads Get RARE?
Rasti Vaibhav, a CFA Charterholder who spent more than nine years managing institutional portfolios of more than $2 billion at Westpac and AMP Capital. He has invested personally for more than fifteen years and holds 22 properties worth about $16.8 million as at August 2026. He leads the residential and the commercial work.
He is the author of The Property Wealth Blueprint and sits on the REINSW Buyers Agents Chapter Committee, working to raise ethical standards in buyer's agency practice. Rupali Rastogi, Director of Acquisition, leads sourcing, negotiation and transaction governance. Get RARE was founded in 2019 and buys residential and commercial property for clients Australia-wide.
That matters for one reason. When someone has built a portfolio with their own money, through their own mistakes, the advice is shaped by consequence rather than theory.
Which frameworks guide every Get RARE engagement?
Two, and both are published rather than described vaguely. GPS, Grow, Protect, Secure, sets what the portfolio has to do: growth, buffers and downside protection, then long-term income and optionality. RARE, Review, Aim, Raise, Enjoy, sets the order of the decisions. Performance is judged against both, never against a suburb forecast.
GPS: Grow, Protect, Secure
Grow targets capital growth and long-term growth in equity. Protect manages buffers, cash flow and downside risk. Secure creates long-term stability, income and optionality. Ignore one of the three and the portfolio becomes hard to sustain, usually at the worst moment.
RARE: Review, Aim, Raise, Enjoy
Review the current position clearly. Aim at the right outcomes. Raise with discipline and sequencing. Enjoy the confidence and flexibility that long-term wealth is supposed to deliver.
Together the two frameworks replace noise with structure, so each decision supports the one after it. See how the frameworks work in practice.
Which property investors we work best with, and who we do not suit
Most of our clients are time-poor Australian professionals and established families who want to build wealth through property with structure rather than guesswork. Some are first-time property investors and some already hold four or five. They value discipline over speculation and work to a 10 to 15 year horizon.
This fits if
You earn well but are unsure what the right next move is. You may be buying a first investment property, or you may already own several with no clear plan connecting them. Or you are financially capable and tired of conflicting advice.
This does not fit if
You are a short-term speculator or a quick-flip investor, or you want a property recommended on the first call. We will not do that, and you would be paying for something we do not sell.
Not sure?
That is what the first call is for. Forty-five minutes, no cost, and a straight answer on whether we are the right property consultants for your position right now.
If you value calm, disciplined thinking, you are in the right place. If you want excitement, we are the wrong firm.
Which service fits your property portfolio right now
Different stages call for different investment strategies. Some clients arrive ready to begin and want structure before they act. Others already own property and need clarity on what comes next. Others have a strategy and want disciplined execution.
The three services below are the whole of what we sell. There is no fourth thing waiting behind a login.
Strategic property advisory
For investors who need clarity before committing capital. We establish where you are, what your portfolio can support, and what the next decision has to achieve. The output is a tailored investment strategy, written down, before anything is bought.
Investment property acquisition
For investors ready to act with discipline. We source, assess, negotiate and settle acquisitions that fit the agreed investment strategy, rather than treating a purchase as a standalone event.
Ongoing portfolio review
For investors who want continued oversight. As your circumstances, lending position and portfolio complexity change, we keep the decisions fitting the bigger picture.
Together these form a continuing strategic partnership, not a one-off transaction. The investment process is the same at every stage: position first, then plan, then property. It is the main reason more than 70% of clients continue with us beyond the first acquisition. If your next purchase is commercial property rather than residential, our commercial buyers agent service runs the same way.
Before you talk to anyone, come to a workshop.
Two evenings a month, run by Rasti, on the two decisions investors get stuck on. Seventy-five minutes, online, no cost, and the recording goes to everyone who registers. There is one mention of what we do, near the end, and you are free to ignore it.
Is now a bad time to buy, or sell?
Values have fallen for five months. Rents have risen for five years. Both are true, and that is why the decision feels hard.
- The four questions that decide it, in the order that makes them work
- What the 2027-28 measures actually change for a portfolio like yours
- Your own numbers, tested at today's rates rather than the ones you bought at
Free · 75 minutes · online · recording included
Is commercial your next move?
The same $800,000 buys about $30,700 a year gross in a house, or about $52,000 net in a small industrial unit. That difference is the whole reason people look.
- Who commercial suits, and who should wait
- What a good one looks like, as a profile rather than a postcode
- The seven mistakes, and the check that catches each one
Free · 75 minutes · online · recording included
Cannot make either night? Register anyway and the recording comes to you. Past sessions and what is coming up are on the free masterclasses page.
How a property investment consultation works, step by step
A 45-minute call
You describe your position and what you want property to do. We tell you honestly whether we can help, and whether now is the right time to act at all.
A personalised investment strategy
We map your borrowing capacity, your buffers, your risk profile and the sequence. What comes out is a property strategy built around your investment needs and your long-term goals, not a template. This is where most of the value sits, and it happens before any property search.
Execution and review
If the strategy calls for a purchase, we run the search, the analysis and the negotiation. Then we keep reviewing the portfolio as your position changes.
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Property investment consultant FAQ
What does a property investment consultant do?
The work starts with your money, not with a listing. We read your financial position and the portfolio you already hold, set what the next decision has to achieve, and test whether buying is the right move this year at all. Only then does a search begin.
Anyone who opens by showing you a property has skipped the first three steps.
What is a real estate investment consultant?
The same role under an American name. In Australia the common titles are property investment consultant, property investment advisor and property strategist, and a real estate investment consultant means the same thing again.
What separates them is not the title. It is whether the fee comes from you or from the sale, and that single fact shapes every piece of property advice that follows.
What is the difference between a property investment consultant, an advisor and a strategist?
Nothing reliable. None of the three titles are protected in Australia, so each means whatever the business using it decides it means.
The useful question is who pays them. A property consultant paid only by you gives different advice from one paid by a developer, and no job title will tell you which is which.
What services do property investment consultants offer?
Ours offers three. Strategic property advisory, which sets the plan before any capital moves. Investment property acquisition, which is the search, the analysis and the negotiation. Ongoing portfolio review, which keeps the plan current as your lending position and your life change.
Some firms bundle property management or property finance into that list. We do not, because we do not want a second fee riding on your decision.
How do property investment consultants find the best properties?
There are no best properties, only the right property for one investor's position. We start from your borrowing capacity, your buffers and your holding period, then look for property that fits those constraints.
Data narrows the list. Inspection and local agent relationships decide it. Anyone who names a suburb before they have seen your numbers is selling, not advising.
Who is the best person to talk to about property investment?
Someone with no financial interest in your answer. That rules out anyone earning a commission on the property they recommend. Ask three things before you engage anybody. Who else pays you. What happens if you tell me not to buy. Show me a recent case where you told a client to wait.
The last one separates an adviser from a salesperson.
Are you property investment consultants or a buyers agent?
Both, and the order matters. The consulting comes first: your position, your sequencing, and whether a purchase is right at all. The buyers agent work is the execution that follows, and only if the strategy calls for it.
Plenty of clients engage us and buy nothing that year. That is a normal outcome here, not a failed one.
What does a property investment consultation cost?
The first call costs nothing and runs about 45 minutes. After that we charge a flat fee, fixed and set by the price bracket you buy in, so you know the exact number before you sign.
No percentage, no variable component and no success fee, because a percentage pays us more when you spend more.
Do you take developer commissions or referral fees?
No. We take no commission, rebate or referral fee from any developer, sales agent, vendor, mortgage broker or accountant. Client fees are our only income.
This matters more here than in most industries, because a large part of this market is funded by the people selling the stock. Ask anyone you are considering, before you share your financial position.
Clarity before your next property investment decision
Forty-five minutes to understand your options before you commit more capital. No pressure and no selling. The point is to grow your wealth with fewer mistakes, not faster.
Or call 02 5022 5450 · Suite 5.03, 309 George Street, Sydney · Mon to Fri, 9am to 5pm
Written and reviewed by Rasti Vaibhav, CFA Charterholder, former institutional portfolio manager at Westpac and AMP Capital, and Founder of Get RARE Properties. Last updated 17 August 2026. Get RARE Properties is licensed in NSW, VIC and QLD and is a member of PIPA, REINSW, REIV, REIQ and REIA. This page is general information and does not take your personal circumstances into account.