About Get RARE Properties

Independent strategic buyer's agency built on institutional thinking, portfolio discipline, and long-term partnership.

Get RARE Properties was founded to bring structured, independent property advisory to professionals who want decisions to compound, not create stress.

We are not a transactional buyer's agency.
We are a strategic partnership focused on portfolio outcomes, risk management, and long-term wealth creation, without developer ties, stock incentives, or volume targets.

Our mission: To help time-poor professionals build resilient property portfolios through strategy-first thinking, disciplined execution, and ongoing oversight, applying institutional investment principles to private wealth creation.

From Institutional Finance to Independent Property Advisory

Get RARE Properties was founded by Rasti Vaibhav in 2019, following 15+ years in institutional fund management and quantitative portfolio construction.

After managing institutional portfolios exceeding $2 billion at Westpac and AMP Capital, Rasti recognised that private property investors faced a fundamental problem: an industry optimised for transactions, not outcomes.

Most property advice was:

Driven by developer incentives
Focused on individual purchases, not portfolio logic
Lacking risk management discipline
Pushing speed over sequencing

The solution wasn't more transactions. It was better decisions.
Get RARE was built to apply institutional portfolio thinking, risk management, capital sequencing, and disciplined decision-making, to private property investing.

Since 2019, we've provided strategic oversight for property decisions representing over $300 million in acquisition value across NSW, Victoria, Queensland, and South Australia, not by chasing volume, but by improving decision quality.

What began as a founder-led advisory practice has grown into a structured buyer's agency with acquisition specialists, research analysts, and transaction coordinators operating nationally.

The focus remains unchanged: strategy before property, independence before transactions, long-term outcomes before short-term momentum.

Rasti Vaibhav (Founder & CFA Charterholder) and Rupali Rastogi (Director of Acquisition, Licensed Buyer's Agent)

Our Journey

2019

- Founded by Rasti Vaibhav, bringing institutional portfolio thinking to private property investing

2021

- Expanded to national operations (NSW, VIC, QLD, SA)
- Began partnership with So They Can

2023

- Launched structured Strategic Buyer's Agency model integrating advisory, acquisition, and ongoing review

2025

- Recognised as Australia's Top 50 Small Business Leaders
- REINSW John Greig OAM Community Award

Today

- Supporting portfolio decisions across $300M+ in property acquisitions
- 25 students sponsored through So They Can partnership

Our Investment Frameworks

Strategic property decisions require frameworks that bring clarity to complexity. We use two complementary frameworks developed through institutional portfolio management experience and refined across hundreds of client engagements.

These frameworks guide our Strategic Buyer's Agency partnership and inform how we work with every client.

GPS Framework of a path consisting of Growing Assets, Protecting the Portfolio and Securing Freedom through Property Investing

GPS Framework: Grow. Protect. Secure.

Every resilient property portfolio must balance three forces:

GROW: Assets must have capacity to create equity over time. Growth is what enables portfolios to compound and build long-term wealth. However, growth alone is insufficient, and can be dangerous when pursued without consideration for protection and security.

PROTECT: Cash flow buffers, diversification, and risk management protect you from shocks. Protection is what allows portfolios to withstand interest rate changes, market corrections, and income disruptions. Growth without protection creates fragility.

SECURE: As portfolios mature, the focus shifts to stability, income generation, and optionality. Security is what allows you to transition from accumulation to preservation, and eventually to utility.

The Balance Principle:
These three forces must remain in balance, not perfectly, but deliberately. Strategic portfolio construction means understanding where you are in this balance and how to sequence decisions to move from one stage to the next.

Get RARE Model for Property Investing: A Process of reviewing risk and capcity, aiming for a goal, raising the success and then enjoying the lifestyle from the freedom

RARE Model: Review. Aim. Raise. Enjoy.

The RARE Model guides how we work with clients through each stage of their property investment journey.

REVIEW: Understand where you are now
Every engagement begins with review, whether you own no properties or several. This means understanding your risk exposure, cash flow resilience, portfolio concentration, and how current decisions affect future options.

AIM: Define clear objectives
Not "I want to buy more property" but "I want to achieve X outcome over Y timeframe using property as one component of my wealth strategy."

RAISE: Build with discipline and sequencing
Raising doesn't mean constant activity. It means knowing what comes next, why it comes next, and when the timing is right. Sometimes raising means buying. Sometimes it means waiting. Sometimes it means restructuring.

ENJOY: Reduce stress and improve lifestyle outcomes

Wealth should support life, not complicate it. The goal isn't to maximise theoretical net worth, it's to build a portfolio that provides confidence, flexibility, and optionality while reducing anxiety.

How These Frameworks Work Together:

GPS defines what a healthy portfolio looks like. RARE defines how we help you build one.

Together, they replace guesswork with structured thinking, ensuring every recommendation is grounded in principles tested across hundreds of portfolios and multiple market cycles.
→ Learn how we apply these frameworks in practice: How We Work
→ See the complete partnership approach: Strategic Buyer's Agency

Experience That Supports Clear Decisions

Our advice is shaped by experience across property, finance, and strategic portfolio management.

This depth allows us to:

Identify risk early (we've experienced market cycles personally)
Make decisions with confidence (backed by institutional training + personal investing)
Understand investor psychology (we face the same decisions our clients do)
Apply both theoretical and practical knowledge (not just academic frameworks)

We don't just advise on property investing. We actively invest ourselves.

Our leadership team owns and manages a combined portfolio of 21+ properties across multiple markets, asset types, and strategies. This isn't credential building, it's ensuring our advice is grounded in lived experience, not just theory.

Rasti Vaibhav personal property portfolio metrics showing 21+ properties owned and managed

Independence & Professional Standards

Get RARE Properties operates as an independent buyer's agency.

We are not paid by developers, builders, or project marketers. We do not receive commissions from sales agents. We are not incentivised by transaction volume.
This structural independence allows strategy to lead, not stock.

What Independence Enables

✓ Strategy can lead, not stock: We recommend properties based on portfolio fit, not inventory pressure
✓ We can recommend waiting: Sometimes the most strategic move is not to act. Independence allows us to say so without financial penalty
✓ We can advise against repeating past decisions: If a strategy that worked once no longer fits, we'll challenge it
✓ We can walk away from opportunities: Access to off-market properties is valuable only if we can say no to those that don't fit your objectives

Independence is not a marketing claim. It's a structural choice that fundamentally changes how advice is delivered.

Structural independence: no developer relationships, no stock pressure, no volume targets

Professional Memberships

Get RARE Properties maintains active memberships with:

Property Investment Professionals of Australia (PIPA)
Real Estate Institute of NSW (REINSW)
Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA)

Licensing & Operations: Licensed in NSW, operating nationally across NSW, Victoria, Queensland, and South Australia.

Industry Recognition & Awards

Leadership has been recognised at industry and national levels for structured, independent advisory practice:

National Business Leadership:

🏆 Australia's Top 50 Small Business Leaders (2025)
National recognition for business leadership and innovation in strategic property services. This award acknowledges businesses that demonstrate exceptional leadership, growth, and contribution to their industry.

Industry Recognition:

🏆 REINSW John Greig OAM Community Award (2025)
Industry recognition for contribution to professional standards in buyer advocacy and community impact through property services.

Thought Leadership:

🏆 REB Thought Leader of the Year, Finalist
Recognition for advancing portfolio-first thinking in property investing and educating investors on strategic frameworks.

🏆 REB Innovation in Buyer's Agency, Finalist
Recognition for strategic integration of advisory and acquisition services, moving beyond transactional buyer advocacy.

What These Recognitions Mean:

These awards reflect peer acknowledgment of our approach: strategy-led, independence-focused, and structured for long-term investor outcomes, not just transaction volume. They validate that portfolio-first thinking, risk management discipline, and structured decision-making are recognised as valuable contributions to the property investment industry.

Leadership

Get RARE Properties is led by Rasti Vaibhav (Founder & Principal) and Rupali Rastogi (Director of Acquisition), bringing institutional finance experience, acquisition expertise, and portfolio-first thinking to independent property advisory.

Rasti Vaibhav

CFA Charterholder | MBA (Finance), AGSM & University of Chicago Booth
Founder & Principal

Rasti leads portfolio strategy and capital allocation oversight across the firm.
Before founding Get RARE in 2019, he managed institutional portfolios exceeding $2 billion at Westpac and AMP Capital. His multidisciplinary background, architecture, data science, and institutional finance, informs a portfolio-first investment philosophy grounded in risk-adjusted decision-making.

Since 2019, he has provided strategic oversight for property decisions representing over $300 million in acquisition value across residential and commercial asset classes.

He is also the author of The Property Wealth Blueprint, which outlines strategic frameworks for long-term property investing.

Personal Portfolio: 15+ investment properties across NSW, VIC, and QLD
→ View Full Profile

Rupali Rastogi

Licensed Buyer's Agent (NSW)
Director of Acquisition

Rupali leads national acquisition governance and transaction execution across the firm.

With a background in senior banking project management and more than a decade of property investing experience, she oversees national sourcing networks, off-market relationship development, structured negotiation frameworks, and risk-controlled execution across all client transactions.

She coordinates acquisition operations across NSW, Victoria, Queensland, and South Australia, ensuring alignment, capital discipline, and execution consistency.

Personal Portfolio: 6+ investment properties, active property investor
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Beyond the leadership team, operations are supported by acquisition specialists, research analysts, and transaction coordinators across multiple states, ensuring sourcing discipline and execution consistency.

Who We Work With

Get RARE Properties works primarily with mid-career professionals and established families building long-term property portfolios.

Our clients typically:

Earn strong household incomes ($200K+)
Value structure over speculation
Prefer deliberate progression to market-chasing
Want confidence before committing capital
Are building or managing portfolios beyond one or two properties

We work with clients at different stages:

Starting or restarting with clarity
No properties yet, or coming back after years away. You want to begin with structure, not trial and error.
→ Strategic advisory helps you develop a clear roadmap before committing capital.

Reviewing existing portfolios
You own 1-3 properties but you're unsure what's next. Should you buy again? Restructure? Wait?
→ Ongoing review services provide objective portfolio assessment and sequencing guidance.

Executing strategic acquisitions
Strategy is clear. You're ready to act and need execution support aligned to portfolio objectives.
→ Acquisition services deliver disciplined sourcing and negotiation.

Planning long-term wealth structures
Portfolio maturity, optimisation, transition planning, and long-term capital preservation.
→ Our complete strategic buyer's agency partnership integrates all three services.

If you value independence, long-term thinking, and disciplined decision-making, this approach likely aligns with your objectives.

Client Outcomes

Our clients' outcomes reflect the value of strategy-first thinking: not faster transactions, but better decisions. Here's what our clients say:

"Instead of showing us properties, they showed us why we weren't ready, and what needed to happen first. Six months later, we bought with complete confidence."
- Professional couple, Sydney

"Other buyer's agents wanted to rush us into a purchase. Get RARE recommended we wait. That patience saved us from a mistake that would have locked up capital inefficiently for years."
- Mid-career executive, Melbourne

"It's not about buying property. It's about building a portfolio that works. The strategic approach made that difference clear."
- Investor building multi-property portfolio, QLD

"Working with Get RARE gave me invaluable insights and confidence. Their seamless process made all the difference."
- Time-poor professional, NSW

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How We're Different

Most Buyer's Agents:

Focus on execution (find property, negotiate, close)
Paid per transaction (more deals = more revenue)
Work with developer stock and new builds
Start with property recommendations
Operate on speed (find something, buy quickly)
Transactional relationship (ends at settlement)

Get RARE Properties:

Integrate strategy, sequencing, and ongoing oversight
Structured for long-term partnership aligned with portfolio outcomes
Focus on established resale markets with verifiable track records
Start with strategy: "Should you be buying at all right now?"
Operate on sequencing (sometimes the right decision is to wait)
Ongoing partnership (annual reviews, portfolio oversight)

This isn't a criticism of transactional buyer's agents. It's a recognition that strategic property investing requires a different approach, one focused on portfolio logic, risk management, and long-term capital discipline.

→ See how this approach works in practice: How We Work

Impact Beyond Property: Our Partnership with So They Can

What if your next property decision could send a child to school?
At Get RARE Properties, we believe real wealth isn't just what you build; it's what you help unlock in others.

Since 2021, we've partnered with So They Can, a not-for-profit transforming communities through education in Kenya and Tanzania. A portion of our work supports children's education, teachers' training, and school infrastructure in East Africa.

This mission is personal to us. It sits on our vision board alongside our business goals. It reminds us that the freedom we help our clients build can also open doors for others.

The Impact You've Helped Create

Through our partnership with So They Can and the support of our client community:

25 students sponsored: Full-time education, uniforms, meals, and resources

1 school co-funded: Serving hundreds of students in East Africa

Girls' education supported: Empowering young women with access to learning and opportunity

Teacher training funded: Equipping educators to create generational impact

"Knowing my investment helped a child go to school gave me a sense of purpose I didn't expect from property."
- Get RARE Client

Why This Matters to Us

In 2021, we met Cassandra Treadwell, founder of So They Can. Her words stayed with us:
"When you educate a girl, you educate a society."

That single sentence changed our perspective. It reminded us that the most meaningful investment might not be in property, but in people.

This partnership hasn't just changed lives overseas. It's changed us.
At home, our children ask about the students we support. At work, our team feels connected to a bigger mission. And for many of our clients, investing has taken on a deeper sense of purpose.

Thank You for Being Part of This

To every client, partner, and supporter, this legacy belongs to you.

Every property secured, every portfolio built has helped create classrooms, support teachers, and open doors for children who deserve every opportunity.

This is what purpose-led business looks like.
→ Learn more about our impact partnership with So They Can

Get RARE Properties partnership with So They Can supporting education in Kenya and Tanzania

Work With Us

If you're considering strategic property investment and want to understand whether our approach aligns with your objectives, start with clarity.
Explore Our Approach:
→ How We Work — Our process, frameworks, and methodology
→ Strategic Buyer's Agency — Complete partnership integrating advisory, acquisition, and ongoing review
→ Services Overview — Detailed breakdown of what we offer

Ready to Discuss Your Situation?
→ Book a Strategy Call — No obligation, no pressure, just clarity

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