Invest interstate, with a valuer by your side.

A fixed flat fee for residential engagements, in two parts. You pay a fixed engagement fee upfront, which is non-refundable and covers the strategic and research work we do for you. The balance is payable only when your contract goes unconditional. For commercial engagements, the fee is scoped to the deal and confirmed with you upfront. Either way, you are paying us, not the vendor, so our incentives stay aligned with yours. We share the exact figures with you on the fit-check call, once we understand what you are trying to do.

Charissa runs the deal floor end to end: property search, due diligence, comparable market analysis, and coordination with your conveyancer, mortgage broker, and property manager. Dan brings the valuer's lens, steps in on the key calls where his input matters most, and reviews the decisions that shape the deal. No junior buyer's agents. No handoffs.

CHAD operates as a tight two-founder team by design. That gives us the room to spend real time on your suburb research, your property selection, and your due diligence, rather than running on a volume model. We would rather take fewer clients and stand with each of them holistically than stretch ourselves thin and let service quality slide. Capacity is constrained on purpose.

Yes. About 99% of our clients buy in a different state from where they live. The reason is straightforward: we run a data-driven process that surfaces a cluster of suburbs already showing growth momentum, against a tight threshold of supply, demand, and risk metrics. Those suburbs are rarely the ones in your own backyard. We are not in the business of buying in areas where the data is ambiguous and you sit on a property for 12 to 24 months wondering if it will grow. We look for the areas already in motion, so your asset starts compounding from day one.

Yes. Most of our clients buy inside an SMSF. We do not advise on the SMSF structure itself, that sits with your accountant and financial planner. What we do is coordinate the property side with the right professionals around you: an SMSF-aware mortgage broker, a conveyancer who understands bare-trust setups, and a property manager geared for the holding structure.

Yes. Alongside residential, we work with investors moving into commercial property, and we bring the same valuer's lens and evidence-led process to it. Commercial is a different asset class with its own risk and return drivers, so the strategy, the due diligence, and the fee are scoped to each engagement and confirmed with you upfront. If commercial is where you are heading, raise it on the fit-check call and we will tell you honestly whether it fits what you are trying to do.

A pre-approval in hand is ideal before we start the search, since it sets the realistic ceiling. If you do not have one, we can refer you to a mortgage broker we trust, and the broker confirms your borrowing capacity early in our process. We do not start the property search until your numbers are clear.

It happens occasionally, usually during the Deal Room stage when contract conditions or due diligence surface something that should not be ignored. If a deal collapses, we re-enter the search with you at no additional engagement fee. The contract conditions we write in exist to protect you from buying badly, and walking away when a deal does not stack up is part of the service.

Formally the engagement ends at settlement, when keys change hands and your property manager takes over the operational side. In practice, most of our clients stay in touch. We are happy to point you in the right direction or weigh in informally on questions that come up later. Once a client, always a client.

Every figure on this site is drawn from real client portfolios inside Cornerstone™ and recorded in our internal data. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

You start by sending us your introduction on this site. We read every one ourselves. If we think CHAD is the right fit for what you are trying to achieve, we write back personally and we find a time for a fit-check call that suits both sides (30 to 45 minutes, informal, no obligation). From there, if it is a mutual fit on both sides, we move into a formal engagement. If not, we will tell you why and where else to look. We read every introduction ourselves because our capacity is tight, and we want to spend our research time on clients we can genuinely help.