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This blog explains how buying, building or renting a house works in Australia. It makes an interesting reading for newbies and outsiders, expats and newcomers, basically anyone who is not familiar with Australian real estate market.

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I know how much busier your life has become since you’ve started house-hunting. Here is a way to make things easier, be more organized and save some precious time:

1. Enter your name and email in the boxes below and I will send you 2 checklists.

2. Print these checklists and take them to inspections, tick the boxes while walking through the house.

Use checklist #1 for all the houses you’re looking at for the first time. The purpose of the first inspection is to create a first impression and checklist #1 will help to remember the most important components that first impression is based on.

Use checklist #2 when inspecting the houses you’ve short-listed as final candidates, for your second inspection. The second inspection is the thorough one, which you conduct with a purpose to determine whether the house is worth the asking price and if not, how much lower your offer should be.

Happy house hunting!