Get Your First Look
An architect's read on your potential new home, in your inbox within 48 hours. $295.
Before you spend a Saturday on the inspection (or your nerves on the auction) get an architect's eye on the house first and get a heads-up on the opportunity, red flags, and questions to ask at the inspection.
A listing has caught your eye. The photos are doing some work, the price guide is a stretch but maybe doable, and you're already drafting the renovation in your head.
Before you go further, it's worth knowing what an architect would see.
That's what First Look is for.
It's the conversation you'd have with an architect mate over coffee, if you happened to have one, distilled into a one-page written response, designed for the speed of property hunting.
What you get
A one-page report, in your inbox within 48 hours, covering:
What's worth getting excited about
The bones, the orientation, the light, the things the photos don't show but matter.
What would worry an architect
The red flags worth confirming at the inspection.
The right questions to ask
The specific ones that change the picture (and that agents rarely volunteer).
A first take on potential
Whether a future renovation looks straightforward, tricky, or expensive, in plain English.
It isn't a building inspection. It isn't a valuation. It's an architect's read on whether the property is worth your time, your weekend, and ultimately your offer.
How it works
1. You book in and send the listing. Pay $295. Share the listing link, any floor plans or photos you have, and a sentence or two about what you're hoping the house could become.
2. An architect spends time with it. That's Brodie - registered architect in VIC and NSW - reviewing the listing, floor plan, orientation, planning overlays, and photos with the same calm, considered eye applied to the full Confidence to Buy service.
3. You get the report. One page. Calm, jargon-free, useful. In your inbox within 48 hours, including weekends, because that's when properties get listed.
Ways we can help
Buyers who've found one house they like and want a sanity check before the inspection or the offer.
Buyers comparing two or three shortlist properties and trying to make the call.
Anyone who's been burned by a renovation that quietly tripled in budget, and doesn't want to do that again.
Who it isn't for
First Look is intentionally light-touch. If you want a deeper review — one that starts with a conversation about how you actually want to live, tests floor plan ideas, considers renovation scope with realistic costings, or covers several properties in detail, that's what Confidence to Buy is built for.
Many buyers start with First Look on a single property they're nervous about, then move to Confidence to Buy once they're seriously narrowing down.
If you upgrade within 30 days, your $295 comes off the Confidence to Buy fee.
$295. One house. One report. Within 48 hours, including weekends.
Take a closer look
Good advice should be easy to understand and easy to trust. This sample report gives you a feel for how we assess properties and communicate our thinking: clearly, calmly, and without jargon.
Before you spend a Saturday on the inspection, or your nerves on the auction, get an architect's eye on the property first. First Look is a single-property review delivered as a one-page report within 48 hours. Strengths, red flags, the right questions to ask. $295.