A good buyers advocate typically saves clients anywhere from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars — not through a discount, but by knowing what a property is actually worth, negotiating without emotion, and sometimes avoiding a bad purchase altogether. Here's what that's looked like for real Baxa Property Services clients.
What "savings" actually means when you use a buyers advocate
Savings on a property purchase show up in two different ways, and it's worth knowing the difference. The first is against the asking price — a seller's opening number is rarely their bottom line, and a skilled negotiator working only for the buyer will usually land well below it. The second, less obvious way, is against comparable sales — what similar properties in the same area actually sold for that year. A buyer working alone often has no easy way to check this; a buyers advocate does it as a matter of course, before any offer is made.
There's a third factor that doesn't show up as a dollar figure at all: not overpaying in the first place because emotion took over at auction, or because a property was compared against too few alternatives.
Three real results
Every figure below is from a completed purchase for a real Baxa Property Services client, verified against comparable sales.
Linh H. saved over $500,000 on a block of land in Mt Martha, compared to a neighbouring block sold the same year.
Be T. saved more than $80,000 off the asking price on a property in Kealba.
Nathan T. saved more than $40,000 off the asking price in St Albans.
These aren't outliers picked to look impressive — they're representative of what happens when someone with local market knowledge and no emotional stake in the property does the negotiating.
Why this happens: three reasons buyers advocates negotiate better than buyers alone
1. No emotional attachment to the property
It's hard to negotiate hard on a home you've already mentally moved into. A buyers advocate can walk away from any single property without a second thought — which is exactly the leverage that gets a better price.
2. Independent knowledge of what things actually sold for
Asking prices are a starting position, not a valuation. Knowing what genuinely comparable properties sold for in the same suburb, in the same year, is what turns a negotiation from a guess into a fact-based case.
3. Being active in the market week to week
A buyer looking at one or two suburbs for a few months sees a snapshot. An advocate working across those suburbs continuously sees the pattern — which listings are overpriced, which agents are motivated to move a property quickly, and where genuine off-market opportunities are sitting.
Is a buyers advocate worth the fee?
On results like the three above, the fee is typically recovered many times over in a single negotiation — but the honest answer is that it depends on the property price band and the scope of work involved. See the FAQ page for how fees generally work, or get in touch directly for a quote specific to your situation.
Where Baxa Property Services works
The team's core coverage is Melbourne's western and inner suburbs, plus Geelong regionally — see Areas We Cover for the full list.