Buy Property/House in Australia

Gurusubramanian Swaminathan
13 min readFeb 22, 2024

It’s not many times in your life you bought and sold a property at the same time in the second most expensive city in the world, i.e. Sydney.

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TLDR:

  • This attempt provides information that has been collected and learned as part of buying a house and selling a villa in Sydney Australia(another article). Timing is around July 2022 to September 2023.
  • It’s a lifelong journey that you must cherish for sure.
  • Buying a PPoR (principal place of residence) for a second time is tougher than the first time.
  • While it’s very easy to say , “You need to know what you/your family want, identify the suburb, identify the street, and then you can buy”, the real process of getting into this criteria is the house hunt process. And it takes time.
  • You and your spouse must have hard conversations or go for a buyer’s agent.
  • Buyers agent is optimal when you don’t have time(myth) when you don’t know what’s happening in suburbs ( can be learnt ), when you don’t know people who have done this ( just knock around and you will see n number of people) and the list continues.
  • However, in my personal opinion, a good buyer agent can change your property portfolio in a good way by devising strategies for you and also helping you in execution. There…

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Gurusubramanian Swaminathan

Life Coach working with people to enhance their lives (Career, Personal).Vivid Writer in Medium Platform on Positivity,Life Lessons & Reflections.IT Program Mgr