First Home Buyers Guide

First Home Buyers Guide: Episode 6 - Navigating Settlement with Sarah Wheeler

Buying your first home can be a very exciting but daunting experience, there is so much information that needs to be absorbed and steps you need to take to get it right. Where are you supposed to learn all of this stuff if they don't teach it to us at school? That is where we come in. This series will help give you all of the knowledge you will need and mark out the steps you need to take to secure your dream home. In this episode, Matt sits down with award real estate agent, Sarah Wheeler to discuss what you need to do in the final stages of buying your first home. If you have been following along you will have learned a lot of different things from how to identify a good first home to buy all the way up to putting in an offer.  This episode is the finale in our first home buyers guide and we talk about the best way to navigate everything that has to do with settlement. Sarah and Matt discuss the differences between conditional and unconditional exchange and some of the other confusing terms that are used in the real estate process. *Disclaimer: we are not financial experts, any advice or suggestions that we provide during this series are developed from the experience our guests have learned during their time in the real estate industry. If you are looking for financial advice, please contact a licensed professional to help*

First Home Buyers Guide - Episode 5: Putting in an offer with Max Manning

Buying your first home can be a very exciting but daunting experience, there is so much information that needs to be absorbed and steps you need to take to get it right. Where are you supposed to learn all of this stuff if they don't teach it to us at school? That is where we come in. This series will help give you all of the knowledge you will need and mark out the steps you need to take to secure your dream home. In this episode, Matt sits down with real estate agent, Max Manning to discuss how to go about putting an offer in on a property you like. Once you have found an ideal first home, gotten yourself ready to buy that property, sorted your first home buyer's grants or schemes, and finances (see previous episodes for a guide on how to) you can put an offer in with the agent. But what happens after that? what goes on behind the curtains that you may not potentially see? This is what this episode is all about. Max talks about the legalities behind the offering stage and what to expect after you take this step. *Disclaimer: we are not financial experts, any advice or suggestions that we provide during this series are developed from the experience our guests have learned during their time in the real estate industry. If you are looking for financial advice, please contact a licensed professional to help*

First Home Buyers Guide - Episode 4: The Market & Interest Rates with Darin Butcher

Buying your first home can be a very exciting but daunting experience, there is so much information that needs to be absorbed and steps you need to take to get it right. Where are you supposed to learn all of this stuff if they don't teach it to us at school? That is where we come in. This series will help give you all of the knowledge you will need and mark out the steps you need to take to secure your dream home. In this episode, Matt sits down with award-winning real estate agent and owner of Wiseberry Heritage Real Estate, Darin Butcher to cover the topic of Interest Rates. Intertest rates can be such a confusing subject to a first home buyer, what are they? who sets them? how do they affect someone who is buying or selling a home? Darin and Matt answer all of these questions along with defining the different kinds of property markets you can find yourself in and how they are determined. Darin has helped thousands of people buy their first home and he gives some helpful tips of what to look out for and steps to take when you are ready to take on that journey.

First Home Buyers Guide - Episode 3: Deposits and Fees with Kimberley Burke

Buying your first home can be a very exciting but daunting experience, there is so much information that needs to be absorbed and steps you need to take to get it right. Where are you supposed to learn all of this stuff if they don't teach it to us at school? That is where we come in. This series will help give you all of the knowledge you will need and mark out the steps you need to take to secure your dream home. In this episode, Matt sits down with award-winning real estate agent Kimberley Burke from Wiseberry Heritage Real Estate on the Central Coast of NSW. Kim explains the fees and deposits that are involved in the process of buying a home as well as describes the difference between the types of loans someone might be offered when trying to purchase their first home.

First Home Buyers Guide - Episode 2: First home buyers grants with Jesse Chapman

Buying your first home can be a very exciting but daunting experience, there is so much information that needs to be absorbed and steps you need to take in order to get it right. Where are you supposed to learn all of this stuff if they don't teach it to us at school? That is where we come in. This series will help give you all of the knowledge you will need and mark out the steps you need to take to secure your dream home. In this episode, Matt sits down with award-winning real estate agent Kurt Bratby from Wiseberry Heritage Real Estate on the Central Coast of NSW. They discuss the absolute first steps to think about when you are looking to buy your first home including determining your budget, going directly to the bank compared to dealing with a mortgage broker, and the timeline and duration you can expect with this process.