The Residential to Commercial Pivot

In Residential, you pay the rates, the water, the strata and the insurance.
In Commercial, your tenant pays for all four.

We will show you how commercial would be more beneficial than residential, purely on numbers. This will include -

Your portfolio net position, after every outgoing
The same capital run against a real commercial asset
Vacancy stress test, in dollars, not percentages
Three to four pages in writing, yours to keep
First 10 applicants free
+61 425 191 055
Apply for the Commercial Pivot Analysis

Four questions, about thirty seconds. Normally $495. We reply either way.

How many investment properties do you own?
Are you looking at buying through an SMSF?
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If you don't leave with a clearer decision than you arrived with, keep the analysis and we refund it. No phone number needed yet. If you're a fit, your session is booked within 72 hours.
20
properties bought for clients
$15M
transacted on behalf of buyers
Class 1
licensed agent. Not a marketer, not a spruiker.
A deal we said no to

We ran the numbers on a Northern Beaches office suite and told the client to walk.

Tenanted, tidy, decent complex. Then we pulled the lease apart. The income was not worth what was being asked for it.

Commercial office property
$620,000
What the agent was asking
$530 to 570k
What our analysis said it was worth
5.92 / 10
Our score. Below our buy threshold.

We do not get paid when a client walks away. We told them to walk anyway. That is the same process you get in the session, applied to whatever you are looking at.

The honest maths

Same $800,000. Two and a half times the net income. And a much bigger hole when it goes wrong.

Most investors compare gross yield. Gross yield is not what lands in your account. On a house you pay the rates, water, insurance, land tax and every repair. Under a commercial net lease your tenant does. That difference does more work than the headline yield.

+$31,000

more net income per year. $51,200 net on small industrial versus $19,412 net on an established house, same purchase price.

+$48,000

more it costs you when a commercial tenant leaves. Six months vacant, outgoings revert, letting fee, fitout contribution.

19 months

of good tenancy to break even on one vacancy event. A five year lease with a solid covenant clears it. A twelve month holdover does not.

Which side of that line you land on depends on the lease, the tenant and your holding capacity. Working that out for your numbers is what the hour is for. Illustrative figures, typical metro assets. Yours will differ.

Tarun Sharma, Principal of Homez Buyers Advocacy
Who runs the session

You are talking to Tarun, not a salesperson.

Principal and founder of Homez Buyers Advocacy. Twenty properties bought for clients, around $15 million transacted, and a due diligence process that scores every asset before anyone makes an offer. The person who does the analysis runs the session.

Class 1 real estate licence
Cert IV Real Estate Practice
Commercial and SMSF specialist
How it works

Three steps. No pitch in any of them.

STEP 01

Apply

Four questions, about thirty seconds. We check the session is worth your time before you commit to it, and we tell you if it isn't.

STEP 02

The session

60 minutes on your numbers. What your residential portfolio nets after costs, what commercial at the same price would net, and where the risk actually sits.

STEP 03

Your summary

Three to four pages in writing, yours to keep. Take it to your accountant. No obligation to work with us afterwards.

Before you apply

This suits some people and wastes others' time.

We would rather tell you now. If you are in the right hand column, do not apply.

Apply if

You own one to four investment properties and were planning another
You have a self managed super fund and were looking at property
You run a business and pay rent to a landlord
You have looked at your net yield after outgoings and did not like it
You can hold an asset for seven years or more

Do not apply if

You want a tip on a property you have already found
You need tax or structuring advice. That is your accountant's job
You want guaranteed returns. Nobody can give you those
You need the money back inside three years
You want someone to agree with a decision already made
Launch Cohort

The first ten are free. After that, $495.

Free

For the first ten applicants. We are running these at no charge to build commercial case studies. 60 minutes, plus a written summary of three to four pages.

After the first ten, the session is $495 including GST. If you go on to engage us for an acquisition, the full $495 is credited against the fee.
What your residential portfolio actually nets you after costs
What a commercial asset at the same price would net, and at what risk
How long the lease runs, how solid the tenant is, and what happens if they leave
A written summary you can take to your accountant
A straight answer, including if that answer is do nothing
Run my numbers
Is this just a sales call for your buying service?

No. It is a paid product with a written deliverable, and roughly a third of the people we run it for are told to stay where they are. If we think you should not buy commercial, we say so in the session and in writing.

What if you tell me not to buy?

Then you have saved yourself a bad purchase and you still have the written summary. That is a good outcome, not a wasted hour. We would rather lose a fee than put you in the wrong asset.

Will you push me into your acquisition program?

We will tell you what it costs if you ask. We do not chase. If you want to take the summary and act on it yourself, or hand it to another agent, that is entirely your call.

Do I need to have money ready to go?

No. Plenty of people run this a year or two out. Knowing what you would need, and what you would be buying, is more useful early than late.

Can you advise me on tax or whether to use an SMSF?

No, and be wary of any buyers agent who says they can. We are not registered tax agents and we do not hold a financial services licence. We handle the property side and we will tell you exactly what to ask your accountant.

I already own commercial. Is this still useful?

Probably not for a first asset conversation. If you are looking at a specific deal or a second purchase, tell us in the application and we will say honestly whether the session is worth your time.