Your first purchase, guided from start to finish. We manage every step and negotiate the purchase for you, helping first home buyers achieve the best possible price and purchase conditions.
Buying your first home in Adelaide is entirely doable, but the process is stacked with things nobody teaches you: price guides that undershoot the real number, contracts with clauses that matter, cooling off rules, deposits, and a selling agent whose legal duty is to the vendor, not to you. A buyer's agent levels that. We guide you from your first brief through to settlement, manage every step, and negotiate so you pay what the home is worth rather than what the campaign hopes for.
If you have been searching for months, offering on home after home and losing every time, the problem is usually not your budget. It is that you are anchoring to advertised prices that were never the real number, and you are competing against investors and experienced buyers who know it.
The pattern wears people down until they overcorrect: after six losses, the seventh offer goes in high out of exhaustion, and that is the one that sticks. Paying too much because you were tired of losing is the most expensive mistake in property, and it is almost always avoidable.
We manage the entire purchase, not just the search. In practice that looks like this: we turn what you want into a realistic brief, shortlist homes that genuinely fit it, inspect with you or for you, and tell you honestly what the listing does not. When you find the one, we appraise it independently so you know what it is actually worth, then build the offer and negotiate on your behalf, so you never have to reveal your budget or bluff an agent in a hallway. From accepted offer to settlement day, we keep every step on track and explain everything in plain English as we go.
You make every decision. We make sure you are making it with full information, and that nobody in the process is taking advantage of your inexperience.
South Australia currently offers two significant concessions for eligible first home buyers, and both are worth understanding before you set your budget.
The First Home Owner Grant. A payment of up to $15,000 if you buy or build a new home, including a house, unit, townhouse, apartment or a substantially renovated home. There is no property value cap for contracts entered into on or after 6 June 2024. Established homes are not eligible. Full details are on the RevenueSA First Home Owner Grant page.
Stamp duty relief. Eligible first home buyers pay no stamp duty on a new home, or on vacant land they intend to build their home on, again with no property value cap for contracts from 6 June 2024. On a typical new home purchase this can be worth tens of thousands of dollars. It does not apply to established homes. Full criteria are on the RevenueSA stamp duty relief page.
Both come with conditions, including living in the home for at least six continuous months, and eligibility rules around prior property ownership that tightened in early 2025. We walk every client through exactly what applies to their situation.
Beyond the concessions, the reliable advice: know your full budget before you fall in love with anything, including duty where it applies, conveyancing, inspections and moving costs, and have your finance pre approved so that when the right home appears you can act on it.
Grant and concession rules change, and eligibility depends on your circumstances. Figures above are current at July 2026. Always confirm the current rules with RevenueSA and do your own research. This page is general information, not financial or legal advice.
The single most valuable thing we do for a first home buyer is stop them overpaying. Before any offer, we appraise the property against recent verified comparable sales, so the number you offer is grounded in evidence rather than the agent's guide. Then we negotiate for you. Nothing you say can be used against you, because you are not the one saying it. How that works in detail: price analysis and negotiation.
It is a fair question, and the honest answer is that it depends on what the alternative costs you. Overpaying by even a small margin on a first home is usually a five figure mistake financed over decades. Buying the wrong property, in the wrong street, because nobody told you what to look for, costs more again.
Our fee is fixed and agreed before we start, so you know the cost to the dollar before committing to anything. We act for buyers only, we never act for vendors, and everything we do is explained in plain English as we go. You will not be the least informed person in the room again.
Aiden came to us at 19, a year out of school and working hard, with a goal that mattered: he wanted to be the first person in his family to own property. He had a limited budget, no experience with the process, and no idea where to start. Buying felt overwhelming, and overwhelmed is exactly how first home buyers end up taken advantage of.
We took over the process and guided him through every step:
At 19, Aiden settled on his first home, the first in his family to own one.
Our client's name has been changed for privacy.
It helps, and we can guide you on the right sequence if you have not started. Pre approval tells us your real budget, and it makes selling agents take your offers seriously, which matters in a competitive market.
That is a large part of the job. We appraise every property against recent verified comparable sales before you offer, so the number is grounded in evidence rather than the advertised guide, and then we negotiate on your behalf.
Two main ones at the time of writing: the First Home Owner Grant of up to $15,000 for buying or building a new home, and full stamp duty relief on new homes and on vacant land to build on, both with no property value cap for contracts entered into on or after 6 June 2024. Established homes are not eligible for either. Rules change, so always confirm current eligibility on the RevenueSA website.
No. There is no minimum budget, and because our fee is fixed and agreed before we start, we have no incentive to steer you toward a more expensive property. The only requirement is that your budget can realistically buy a property that fits your brief, and we will tell you honestly in the first conversation whether it can.
It varies with the brief and the market, but the process is typically weeks rather than months once the brief is right, because you are only inspecting genuine candidates and acting decisively when the right one appears.