How to buy a home

It seems that there are two ways to buy a home these days: search and search and search sites like domain.com.au or realestate.com.au, make heaps of phone calls to agents and place a contract down on properties based purely on the photos from the web…. OR…. engage a buyer’s agent to do it for you.J and I chose the second way, and as of 5pm today the contract to purchase our home-to-be has gone to the Unconditional stage.We’ve got the finances organised, the building and pest inspection was acceptable, our in-person inspection was good, the deposit has been paid and ….. settlement is in mid-June.We’ll be moving about a fortnight afterwards, once J has finished her secondment.