Property investment consultants and strategists, not salespeople
The advice is the product. Not the property.
We are independent property investment consultants. Nobody but you pays us, so the strategy you get is the one we would follow with our own money.
In short: a property investment consultant works out what your next purchase has to achieve, then tells you whether to buy, wait, or fix what you already own. We are paid only by you, so "do not buy this year" is an answer we are free to give.
Book my free 20-minute call No pitch. If buying is the wrong move for you this year, we will say so on the first call.
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The biggest risk in property investment is not the property. It is the decision-making.
Most investors do not get into trouble because they missed the perfect suburb. They get into trouble because decisions were made in the wrong order. Too many opinions, not enough structure, and no clear view of what the next purchase actually has to achieve.
Australian property investors rarely come unstuck on property selection. They come unstuck on sequencing, on buffers, and on investment decisions taken years apart that never fitted together.
Information is not the shortage
You can read the whole property market in a weekend. Market trends are free and everywhere. What is missing is a way to judge which of it applies to your financial position, this year, at your borrowing capacity.
Order matters more than selection
The same three investment properties bought in a different sequence produce a different portfolio. Sequencing is the part almost nobody sells you, because it is not a transaction.
Most advice is funded by a sale
A great deal of property investing advice in Australia is paid for by whoever is selling the stock. That does not make it dishonest. It makes it structurally unable to say wait.
Our clients are not short on information. They are short on clarity.
Get RARE client figures, as at August 2026.
What a property investment consultant does before showing you a single property
We do not start with property. We start with strategy.
Every engagement begins in the same place, and it is never a listing. It is your position: what you own, what it earns, what it costs to hold, what you can borrow, and what you want the next ten years to look like. Only once that is on the table does the conversation turn to what to buy.
Sometimes the right move is to buy. Sometimes it is to wait. Sometimes it is to review the portfolio properly before committing more capital. A property can look good in isolation and still be the wrong next move.
Good property investment advice is mostly subtraction. Most of what looks like an opportunity does not fit your investment goals, your financial goals or the years you have left to run. Removing those first is the work.
The industry likes to call this a property investment journey. We call it a sequence of decisions. Each one narrows what the next one can be.
Consultant, advisor, strategist, buyers agent: what the labels mean
Australian property investment advice is not a licensed activity. Buyer's agency is. That is the whole difference. It is also why none of these titles are protected. Each one means whatever the firm using it decides.
A property investment advisor at one business does the same job a property strategist does at another. A property investment agency and a property investment advisory can be the same office with two websites. An investment property agent may simply be a salesperson with a different business card.
What to consider when choosing a property investment advisor
Consider how they are paid, what they lose if you decide not to buy, and whether they invest in property themselves. Everything else is decoration.
Every firm here advertises expert advice and property experts. Those words cost nothing to print. We do not promise to maximise anything, either. The label tells you nothing. Three questions do. Who else pays them. What happens to their fee if you decide to wait. How many properties do they hold themselves.
Why should you use an independent property investment advisor?
Because an independent property consultant can give you advice a salesperson cannot, starting with the word wait. Four commitments sit underneath everything on this page.
No developer commissions
We hold no stock and we promote none. No developer, project marketer or sales agent pays us anything, in any form.
No referral fees, either way
We do not pay introducer fees and we do not accept them. If we point you to a broker or an accountant, nothing moves between us.
Clients pay us directly
A flat fee, fixed and set by the price bracket you buy in. You know your exact fee before you engage. No percentage and no variable component.
We stay in our lane
We do not advise on property finance, super, tax or insurance, and we are not property managers. Property management is a separate business we take no fee from. We work alongside the people who do those jobs, and we say plainly when a question is theirs.
How to check any of this for yourself
What you can check is the licence. Get RARE holds real estate agent licences in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, and each state regulator publishes a public register you can search. We are members of PIPA, REINSW, REIV, REIQ and REIA. Our award and finalist placings are published each year by REINSW, so you do not have to take our word for those either.
We work with Australian property investors nationally, and we buy where the strategy points rather than where we happen to live. If you want the local view first, start with our buyers agent Sydney page or our buyers agent Melbourne page.
Led by a strategist, not a salesperson
Get RARE was founded by Rasti Vaibhav after more than 9 years managing institutional portfolios at Westpac and AMP Capital, where capital allocation and risk management were the whole job. Portfolios there ran past $2 billion.
Rasti is a CFA Charterholder and the author of The Property Wealth Blueprint. He has been investing personally for 14 years and holds 22 properties worth about $16.8 million as at August 2026. All of it is residential property. That is exactly why the commercial side of this business is led by somebody else. Get RARE itself is 7 years old.
That matters for one reason. When a property strategist has built a portfolio with their own money, through their own mistakes, the advice is shaped by consequence rather than theory. We invest with our own money, so we look at yours the same way.
Commercial acquisitions are led by Rasti, with the same strategy-first discipline and the same independence as every residential brief.
The two frameworks behind every property investment consultation
Structured thinking is what separates a portfolio from a collection of purchases. We publish both frameworks rather than describing them vaguely.
GPS: Grow, Protect, Secure
Grow targets capital growth and long-term growth in equity. Protect manages buffers, cash flow and downside risk. Secure creates long-term stability, income and optionality. Ignore one of the three and the portfolio becomes hard to sustain, usually at the worst moment.
RARE: Review, Aim, Raise, Enjoy
Review the current position clearly. Aim at the right outcomes. Raise with discipline and sequencing. Enjoy the confidence and flexibility that long-term wealth is supposed to deliver.
Portfolio performance is then judged against your own plan, not against a headline about somebody else's suburb. Property investment decisions compound, which is why the order of them matters more than any one of them. Together the two frameworks replace noise with structure, so each decision supports the one after it. See how the frameworks work in practice.
Which property investors we work best with, and who we do not suit
Most of our clients are time-poor Australian professionals and established families who want to build wealth through property with structure rather than guesswork. Some are first-time property investors and some already hold four or five. They value discipline over speculation and work to a 10 to 15 year horizon.
This fits if
You earn well but are unsure what the right next move is. You may be buying a first investment property, or you may already own several with no clear plan connecting them. Or you are financially capable and tired of conflicting advice.
This does not fit if
You are a short-term speculator or a quick-flip investor, or you want a property recommended on the first call. We will not do that, and you would be paying for something we do not sell.
Not sure?
That is what the first call is for. Twenty minutes, no cost, and a straight answer on whether we are the right property consultants for your position right now.
If you value calm, disciplined thinking, you are in the right place. If you want excitement, we are the wrong firm.
Which service fits your property portfolio right now
Different stages call for different investment strategies. Some clients arrive ready to begin and want structure before they act. Others already own property and need clarity on what comes next. Others have a strategy and want disciplined execution.
The three services below are the whole of what we sell. There is no fourth thing waiting behind a login.
Strategic property advisory
For investors who need clarity before committing capital. We establish where you are, what your portfolio can support, and what the next decision has to achieve. The output is a tailored investment strategy, written down, before anything is bought.
Investment property acquisition
For investors ready to act with discipline. We source, assess, negotiate and settle acquisitions that fit the agreed investment strategy, rather than treating a purchase as a standalone event.
Ongoing portfolio review
For investors who want continued oversight. As your circumstances, lending position and portfolio complexity change, we keep the decisions fitting the bigger picture.
Together these form a continuing strategic partnership, not a one-off transaction. The investment process is the same at every stage: position first, then plan, then property. It is the main reason more than 70% of clients continue with us beyond the first acquisition. If your next purchase is commercial property rather than residential, our commercial buyers agent service runs the same way.
How a property investment consultation works, step by step
A 20-minute call
You describe your position and what you want property to do. We tell you honestly whether we can help, and whether now is the right time to act at all.
A personalised investment strategy
We map your borrowing capacity, your buffers, your risk profile and the sequence. What comes out is a property strategy built around your investment needs and your long-term goals, not a template. This is where most of the value sits, and it happens before any property search.
Execution and review
If the strategy calls for a purchase, we run the search, the analysis and the negotiation. Then we keep reviewing the portfolio as your position changes.
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Property investment consultant FAQ
What does a property investment consultant do?
The work starts with your money, not with a listing. We read your financial position and the portfolio you already hold, set what the next decision has to achieve, and test whether buying is the right move this year at all. Only then does a search begin.
Anyone who opens by showing you a property has skipped the first three steps.
What is a real estate investment consultant?
The same role under an American name. In Australia the common titles are property investment consultant, property investment advisor and property strategist, and a real estate investment consultant means the same thing again.
What separates them is not the title. It is whether the fee comes from you or from the sale, and that single fact shapes every piece of property advice that follows.
What is the difference between a property investment consultant, an advisor and a strategist?
Nothing reliable. None of the three titles are protected in Australia, so each means whatever the business using it decides it means.
The useful question is who pays them. A property consultant paid only by you gives different advice from one paid by a developer, and no job title will tell you which is which.
What services do property investment consultants offer?
Ours offers three. Strategic property advisory, which sets the plan before any capital moves. Investment property acquisition, which is the search, the analysis and the negotiation. Ongoing portfolio review, which keeps the plan current as your lending position and your life change.
Some firms bundle property management or property finance into that list. We do not, because we do not want a second fee riding on your decision.
How do property investment consultants find the best properties?
There are no best properties, only the right property for one investor's position. We start from your borrowing capacity, your buffers and your holding period, then look for property that fits those constraints.
Data narrows the list. Inspection and local agent relationships decide it. Anyone who names a suburb before they have seen your numbers is selling, not advising.
Who is the best person to talk to about property investment?
Someone with no financial interest in your answer. That rules out anyone earning a commission on the property they recommend. Ask three things before you engage anybody. Who else pays you. What happens if you tell me not to buy. Show me a recent case where you told a client to wait.
The last one separates an adviser from a salesperson.
Are you property investment consultants or a buyers agent?
Both, and the order matters. The consulting comes first: your position, your sequencing, and whether a purchase is right at all. The buyers agent work is the execution that follows, and only if the strategy calls for it.
Plenty of clients engage us and buy nothing that year. That is a normal outcome here, not a failed one.
What does a property investment consultation cost?
The first call costs nothing and runs about 20 minutes. After that we charge a flat fee, fixed and set by the price bracket you buy in, so you know the exact number before you sign.
No percentage, no variable component and no success fee, because a percentage pays us more when you spend more.
Do you take developer commissions or referral fees?
No. We take no commission, rebate or referral fee from any developer, sales agent, vendor, mortgage broker or accountant. Client fees are our only income.
This matters more here than in most industries, because a large part of this market is funded by the people selling the stock. Ask anyone you are considering, before you share your financial position.
Clarity before your next property investment decision
Twenty minutes to understand your options before you commit more capital. No pressure and no selling. The point is to grow your wealth with fewer mistakes, not faster.
Or call 02 5022 5450 · Suite 5.03, 309 George Street, Sydney · Mon to Fri, 9am to 5pm
Written and reviewed by Rasti Vaibhav, CFA Charterholder, former institutional portfolio manager at Westpac and AMP Capital, and Founder of Get RARE Properties. Last updated 17 August 2026. Get RARE Properties is licensed in NSW, VIC and QLD and is a member of PIPA, REINSW, REIV, REIQ and REIA. This page is general information and does not take your personal circumstances into account.
