Cohen Handler is Australia’s leading residential property buyer’s agent. With decades of experience both in Melbourne and around Australia we have deep experience in the Melbourne property market. We are your Melbourne Buyer’s Agent.

Our team is made up of specialists deeply entrenched in the Melbourne market. We have built relationships with local real estate sales agents, property management agents and people looking to sell their properties in order to keep across market trends.

Our goal is to ensure our clients have access to the most up-to-date and relevant information in order to make the best property-purchasing decisions.

Through our Melbourne buyer’s agents team we can access exclusive properties, both off-market and premarket, and can secure properties others simply can’t.

Local expertise, national experience.

Cohen Handler was founded in Sydney in 2009 and has since become Australia’s leading buyer’s advocacy team. The Cohen Handler team has conducted over 100,000 inspections and transacted more than 3,000 successful purchases worth more than $8.5 billion

How Cohen Handler Helps Property Buyers

BUYER’S ADVOCACY

We provide a professional perspective to any homebuyer by researching, evaluating and negotiating the purchase of a home.

FULL SERVICE

Our comprehensive offerings include full-service consultations, which covers every step of the property purchasing journey from property sourcing, due diligence, negotiation, auction bidding and pre-settlement inspections.

NEGOTIATION ONLY

We can provide specialised negotiation services, giving you strategic insights to save you money.

AUCTION BIDDING

Trust our Buyers Agents in Melbourne to represent you confidently on auction days, easing the pressure of auction conditions, competitive markets and sticking to your budget. This is Included in our full-service consultation however also offered exclusively if needed.  

PROPERTY STRATEGIES

Whether you are an Melbourne-local or an interstate or international investor looking at taking advantage of Melbourne’s capital growth opportunities our buyer’s agents will work with you to help develop your property portfolio strategy and acquire the right properties at the right price.

COMMERCIAL BUYING

Cohen Handler can work closely with our commercial team, Costi Cohen, to find and acquire commercial or development sites.

ON OR OFF MARKET, OUR BUYER’S AGENTS IN MELBOURNE HELP YOU BUY THE RIGHT PROPERTY AT THE RIGHT PRICE.

How a Melbourne Buyer’s Advocate Helps You

Using a Buyer’s Agent is for anyone looking for a faster, more affordable, or smoother process. Buying a property is one of the largest financial investments you can make, so it makes sense to have a professional by your side.

People use Buyer’s Advocates for a variety of reasons:

Our buyer’s agents in Melbourne have relationships in the market that provide you access to properties that may never hit the open market, ensuring you have opportunities others might miss.

Our Melbourne-based buyers agents provide strategic assistance based on your exact situation and needs. We treat every customer as an individual.

Negotiation is a skill, not an art. Our goal is to ensure you secure the right property at the right price. And if it’s not at the right price, it’s not the right property.

Our buyer’s agents in Melbourne leverage their extensive experience working with real estate agents and vendors to determine the best negotiation strategy and tactics to secure your property.

Whether you’re starting out building a property portfolio with your first investment property or you we can be by your side to identify the right properties that will deliver the right returns.

Additionally, our commercial division via Costi Cohen can also allow you to tap into our commercial buying expertise.

Benefit from our extensive experience in the Melbourne market, gaining access to some of the city’s most exclusive homes.

Our rigorous due diligence process uncovers the true nature of a property. Our Melbourne Buyers Agents, leave no stone unturned, ensuring your investment is free from unwelcome surprises. This is achieved thorough background checks and a network of professionals including, conveyancers, pest and building inspectors, trades people and thorough assessments of land and title reports.

For high-profile clientele, our Buyer’s agents in Melbourne ensure privacy from initial inspection right up to settlement, safeguarding clients through non-disclosure agreements and private viewings.

Cohen Handler is there to support you every step of the way, right from initial brief, all the way to the pre-settlement inspection. Our buyer’s agents in Melbourne ensure the property your intent to move in to or invest in has not been adversely affected since the initial inspection and exchanging of contracts.

We look for items of the home that were removed or damaged which the contract exclusively included as part of the contract of sale. We ensure the state of the home has not drastically changed or been left in a poor condition from previous owners and tenants.

Our Melbourne buyer’s agents will also ensure their clients arrange insurance on the property upon exchanging contracts to cover any risk that can arise leading up to the settlement date.

Analysing the performance of your property portfolio is essential to ensure your goals for building long term wealth and passive income. We can assess the rental return and capital growth of each property and compare with comparative listings and suburbs to determine which properties are under performing.

With this information we can make recommendations as to how to re-strategise your property portfolio and improve its performance, whether that means, adding value via cosmetic renovations, revaluing the property and using equity to secure another or even selling a property to free up capital that can be worked harder in a better suburb.

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Meet Your Melbourne Team

SIMON COHEN

SIMON COHEN

FOUNDER & CEO
NICOLE JACOBS

NICOLE JACOBS

MANAGING DIRECTOR VIC
ZAC JACOBS

ZAC JACOBS

BUSINESS DIRECTOR

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FAQ Melbourne Buyers Agents

Hiring a buyer’s advocate in Melbourne, such as Cohen Handler, means you have a local expert guiding you every step of the way through your property search, to make sure you secure the best property at the right price.

A buyers advocate or buyers agent offers various types of services such as:

Searching and gathering properties that meet your criteria and then negotiating the purchase of that chosen property (whether by auction or private sale.) Depending on your needs, a buyer’s agent may search for one particular property or an entire portfolio, or they can negotiate a better price for you by compiling insights via due diligence and conducting building and pest reports on your chosen property and then developing a negotiation strategy, or they can bid for you at the auction of a property you may have found.

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An off-market property is a home that has yet to be advertised to the public and is not yet ‘on the market’. The sellers may have already engaged a selling agent and have a price point in mind, but they might be sitting back or taking their time to prepare before taking the property public. They use this time to see if their agent can attract any interested buyers before they must advertise the property publicly.

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There are few surer ways of making money than investing in real estate. You can potentially strengthen your financial position and generate wealth, but it also means you’ll have a product that will be in demand as long as people need a place to rest their heads. But how do you choose your first investment property? There are a few things you’ll need to bear in mind.

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Buyers agents and Buyers advocates are licensed and regulated real estate professionals who act on behalf of the property buyer. Their purpose is to research, find and negotiate a perfect property for their client.

This is as opposed to a real estate agent who has a contract with the seller and therefore has their best interests at heart. A buyer’s agent will always negotiate in favour of you, their client.

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How do you know when you’re getting what you want and what you’re paying for regarding buyer’s agents and their fees?

Or if you’re not? For a full-service offering buyers agents will charge a success-based fee based on a percentage of a property, but for other services may charge a flat fee.

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Whether you’re relocating to Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane or Perth for the first time, returning from years overseas, or looking to invest in the Adelaide property market, our services are specifically designed to make the process as simple and successful as possible.

Our executive leasing partners at Cohen Farquharson offer relocation services to assist in the transition.