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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.
Book a Strategy Call Complimentary, 45 minutes, with the founder.
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Winner · 2025 REINSW John Greig OAM Community Award Finalist · 2026 REINSW Buyers Agency of the Year Finalist · 2026 REINSW Buyers Agent of the Year PIPA · REINSW · REIV · REIQ · REIA Licensed NSW, VIC & QLD
The real problem
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.
$300M+of property purchased for clients
550+client families
$80M+in client value growth
70+%of clients continue past the first purchase
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 we actually do
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.
How an engagement works, in three steps
1
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.
2
A personalised 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.
3
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.
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.
| Advice funded by a sale | A commission-based agent | Get RARE | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Who pays them | The seller or the developer | You, as a percentage of the price | You, a fixed fee on residential purchases |
| 2. What happens to their fee if you decide to wait | Nothing is earned, so waiting is rarely the advice | Nothing is earned until you buy | Nothing changes, so we say wait when waiting is right |
| 3. Do they hold property themselves | Ask | Ask | 22 properties, bought with the founder's own money |
Everything else is decoration.
Independence
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.
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.
What people say
What clients say
“I highly recommend Vaibhav as a Buyer's Agent. He has extensive knowledge and expertise in the property sector with a whole lot of experience of more than a decade now. He has not only built a profitable property portfolio for himself but helped many others as well on the way.”
“Being new to the Aussie home market, we never knew that we could buy an investment property this early in our transition to Australia. Thanks to Rasti, we learned about the tenets of creating a property portfolio.”
“Rasti from Get RARE Properties helped my partner and I purchase a property on the Central Coast. Having no knowledge of the area, and little knowledge of the purchasing process itself, it was a relief to have Rasti guide us through the entire process.”
Who leads
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.
The frameworks
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.
Fit
Who does Get RARE work best with?
Time-poor Australian professionals and established families who want to build wealth through property with structure, working to a 10 to 15 year horizon. Some are buying a first investment property; some hold four or five with no plan connecting them. Not short-term speculators, and not anyone who wants a property recommended on the first call.
This fits if
- You earn well but are unsure what the right next move is.
- You are buying a first investment property, or hold four or five with no plan connecting them.
- You are financially capable and tired of conflicting advice.
This does not fit if
- You want a suburb named on the first call.
- You want a quick flip, or a property recommended before anyone has seen your numbers.
We will not do that, and you would be paying for something we do not sell.
If you are not sure
That is what the first call is for: a straight answer on whether we are the right buyer's agency for your position right now.
Or take the six-question diagnostic first: three to five minutes, no score and no obligation.
Book a Strategy CallIf you value calm, disciplined thinking, you are in the right place. If you want excitement, we are the wrong firm.
Services
Which service fits your portfolio right now?
One of three, and there is no fourth. Strategic property advisory when you need clarity before committing capital. Investment property acquisition when the strategy is set and you are ready to act. Ongoing portfolio review when you already hold property and need to know what the next decision should be.
Strategic property advisory
A property investment strategist establishes where you are, what your portfolio can support and what the next decision has to achieve. The output is a written strategy, before anything is bought.
Investment property acquisition
Our buyers agent for investment property sources, assesses, negotiates and settles acquisitions that fit the agreed strategy, rather than treating a purchase as a standalone event.
Ongoing portfolio review
A regular property portfolio review keeps each decision fitting the bigger picture as your circumstances, lending position and portfolio complexity change.
Together these form a continuing relationship rather than a one-off transaction, which is why more than 70% of clients continue with us beyond the first acquisition. If your next purchase is commercial rather than residential, our commercial property buyers agent service runs the same way.
Free live sessions
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.
Wed 30 Sep · 7pm AEST
Is now a bad time to buy, or sell?
Prices and rents are moving in different directions, 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
Thu 8 Oct · 7pm AEDT
Is commercial your next move?
The same purchase price can produce very different net income in a house and in a small industrial unit. That gap 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.
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Questions
Questions investors ask before engaging us
What is the difference between a property investment consultant, an advisor and a strategist?
Nothing reliable. None of the three titles is protected in Australia, so each means whatever the business using it decides it means, and a real estate investment consultant is the same role under an American name.
The useful question is who pays them. A firm paid only by you gives different advice from one paid by the seller, and no job title will tell you which is which.
Are you property investment consultants or a buyer's agency?
A licensed buyer's agency. The strategy work comes first: your position, your sequencing, and whether a purchase is right at all. The buyer's 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 services does Get RARE offer?
Three, and nothing else: strategic property advisory (the plan), investment property acquisition (the search, the analysis and the negotiation, residential or commercial) and ongoing portfolio review (keeping the plan current as your lending position and your life change).
We do not bundle property management or finance, because we do not want a second fee riding on your decision.
How do you find the right property for an investor?
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, which 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 a firm paid by you from someone paid by the sale.
What does an engagement cost?
The first call costs nothing and runs about 45 minutes. After that, a residential purchase carries one fixed fee, set by its price bracket and agreed before you sign, with nothing variable on top. A commercial brief is quoted before you engage.
Client fees are our only income.
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, and we pay none.
It matters more here than in most industries, because so much of the advice on offer is funded by a sale. Ask anyone you are considering, before you share your financial position.
Do you buy outside Sydney and Melbourne?
Yes. Get RARE is licensed in NSW, VIC and QLD and buys for clients Australia-wide; the brief decides the market, not the office.
The Sydney and Melbourne offices are where the team sits, not a limit on where we buy.
Do you work with someone buying their first investment property?
Yes, and the first purchase is where the order matters most, because it sets the borrowing capacity and the buffer that every later decision inherits. We work out what that first property has to achieve before we look at one.
If the right move is to wait a year, we say so.
Is Get RARE a financial adviser?
No. We are licensed buyer's agents, not financial, tax or credit advisers, and nothing on this page is advice of that kind.
We work alongside your accountant, broker and adviser, and anything that affects your money should be checked with them.
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.
What happens on the call
- Forty-five minutes on your position, with the founder.
- A straight answer on whether we can help, and whether now is the time to act at all.
- If we are not the right fit, we say so, and you leave with a clearer view of your next decision either way.
Or call 02 5022 5450 · Suite 5.03, 309 George Street, Sydney · Mon to Fri, 9am to 5pm
This call suits investors who are ready to plan, not anyone looking for a suburb tip.
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 29 September 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.