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Associate
Buyers Agent

You work shoulder to shoulder with a senior Buyers Agent and own the engine room of the deal: sourcing, analysis, contract to settlement, and the client experience through all of it.

Location Work from home
Type Full time
Path Buyers Agent
How to apply

Australian Property Scout is a property investment buyers agency that sources quality properties right across the country. We have a primary focus on residential property and cater to a wide variety of investors, beginners through to experienced.

We are a team with great culture and a genuine desire to help investors achieve financial freedom through property. Something often talked about, but rarely achieved.

Our core values are built on honesty and transparency to our clients, and on delivering the best results and service possible.

The role

As an Associate Buyers Agent you work shoulder to shoulder with a senior Buyers Agent and own the engine room of the deal: sourcing, analysis, contract to settlement, and the client experience through all of it. You will touch every part of the APS Process, and every deal you help settle changes someone’s future.

Responsibilities

What you will own.

Five areas, across the full life of a deal.

Deal analysis and documentation

  • Analyse properties to determine their potential as deals, and prepare deal briefs with comparative market analysis and cash flow sheets.
  • Build a working understanding of the key factors driving value: location, market trends, condition, growth potential, risk factors and renovation upside.
  • Create comprehensive deal emails: deal information, cash flow sheets, photos, reports and vacancy rate attachments.

Sourcing and market research

  • Assist in sourcing properties that match the client’s sourcing criteria: budget, location, property type.
  • Liaise and negotiate with selling agents on opportunities.
  • Develop and foster agent relationships.
  • Build comprehensive market knowledge on the markets you are working in alongside your Buyers Agent.
  • Request, review and approve rental appraisals, and upload to the CRM.

Contract to settlement

  • Create contracts in Zoho Sign and issue to clients for signing. Attend to variations as required.
  • Facilitate the Building and Pest process: inspector introductions, booking appointments, reviewing reports, identifying major and minor defects and associated costs.
  • Understand B&P findings well enough to communicate them confidently and effectively, and record results and client responses accurately in Zoho.
  • Understand due diligence clauses and what has to be met, by when.
  • Track contract dates, key milestones, settlement dates and all conditions, updating the CRM accordingly.
  • Facilitate the Pre-Settlement Inspection and lock in the video call.

Client liaison

  • Make contact when a deal is allocated: provide updates, connect clients with relevant third parties, and follow up on finance status and settlement.
  • Communicate effectively with clients, legal teams, brokers, conveyancers, selling agents, property managers and third party services.
  • Follow up all stakeholders to ensure timely updates and smooth communication.
  • Introduce clients to Property Managers and collaborate on the actions needed for a successful settlement.
  • Coordinate quotes and bookings for small cosmetic works, paint, carpet and similar, with clients, Property Managers and trades when BA Assistants are under the pump.
  • Send clients a review request post settlement.
  • Ensure clients feel supported and have clarity throughout the entire deal process.

CRM and administrative support

  • Manage deals and client records clearly throughout the deal flow, contract to settlement, within Zoho.
  • Handle back end administration: Zoho records, tasks, trackers, activities, communication and general workflow.
  • Screen email inboxes for deal and offer related communication requiring attention and notify the relevant personnel.
  • Draft and send introductory emails to the team on behalf of the BA.
  • Assist with administrative tasks within the deals module.
  • Maintain a working understanding of client profiles and Zoho records.
The honest version

Who this is for, and who it is not.

We would rather be direct about this than have you find out in week three. Read both columns.

Who we are looking for

Yes
  • High performing, proactive and solution focused, with a positive mindset.
  • Self motivated and ambitious, chasing a genuine career with progression, not a job.
  • Positive, optimistic, disciplined, focused and self aware.
  • Strong work ethic, process focused, committed to personal growth and self optimisation.
  • Able to work with high urgency without compromising on quality.
  • Strong communicator and relationship builder who can hold a confident conversation with a client, a broker or a selling agent.

Who we are not looking for

No
  • Individuals seeking a standard 9 to 5 arrangement with minimal engagement.
  • Individuals inclined toward negativity, or those who habitually assign blame to others.
  • Those who do not embrace early morning commitments.
  • Applicants who are drawn to the concept of an excellent job but may not fully embrace the responsibilities it entails.

We encourage only those genuinely interested and willing to meet our job requirements to apply.

Preferred but not essential

What would put you ahead.

None of this is a requirement.

  • 01 Real Estate Licence.
  • 02 Property investment experience.
  • 03 Strong analytical skills.
  • 04 Project management experience.
  • 05 Effective negotiation skills.
What you get

Role benefits.

Where it leads

Career
  • Career growth into a Buyers Agent role.
  • Personal portfolio growth and development.
  • Direct mentorship from senior agents and Sam Gordon.

The day to day

The work
  • Satisfying work that changes lives, in a high performance environment.
  • Work from home.
  • Full time.
Over to you

Sound like you?

Applications are by email. Send everything listed here in one message and we will come back to you.

Not for you, but a name came to mind while you were reading? Please send this on. Referrals from our own community have worked out well for us before.

Email your application to

Recruitment@Australianpropertyscout.com.au

Subject line: Associate Buyers Agent application

Please include

  • Your CV.
  • A short video, in your own words, covering why you want to become a Buyers Agent and what property investing experience you have.

Filmed on your phone is completely fine. We are listening to how you talk about property, not the production.

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