Shayne Mele | Buyers Agent for Investors

01 · The promise

“The buyer pays us, so the buyer wins.”

Spruikers dominate investor property. They're paid by developers to sell you stock, and the pitch always sounds like advice. I sit on the other side of the table. Flat fee, paid by you, accountable to you.

No developer kickbacks

I take nothing from the sell side. Ever.

No off-the-plan commissions

If a property pays me to recommend it, I don't recommend it.

No spruiker funnels

No seminars, no pressure. A thesis, the numbers, and a decision.

02 · How I buy

Market. Shortlist. Asset.
The logo is the method.

The market

Step 01

The market: held, not chased.

15,000+ suburbs analysed with proprietary data. I don't fall in love with listings; I hold the whole market and let the numbers cut it down. Growth cycle, supply, demand, risk, all scored before a single inspection.

Residential suburbs · commercial precincts · development corridors

Step 02

The shortlist: 20 metrics per pocket.

Growth inside a suburb isn't evenly spread. I score the specific pocket, not the postcode, on 20 metrics, then model your cash flow under the post-May 2027 tax rules. Most agents still quote pre-reform numbers. That gap alone changes the decision.

The working layer. This is where the spruikers lose.

Step 03

The asset: the one that earns the gold.

Negotiation, contract review, auction bidding if it comes to it. 60–70% of my deals settle off-market or pre-market before the crowd arrives. And if the numbers never say yes, we don't buy. That's not a failure of the search. That is the search.

38 days average from engagement to exchange.

03 · The four lanes

Four ways I help investors buy.

Different asset classes, one discipline: market, then shortlist, then asset.

Residential investment

Your 1st-through-Nth property, modelled under the post-May 2027 tax rules most agents haven't caught up with. Pocket-level precision, full execution.

Flat fee · $15,000 inc GSTExplore → 02

SMSF property

Compliance triage before the property search: a 10-point pre-flight on the fund first, then the asset. LRBA modelling and full execution inside the fund.

Flat fee · $15,000 inc GSTExplore → 03

Commercial

The Deal Grade™: every property graded A1 to C3, income before building, priced by the lease instead of the listing. Net yields of 4–7%.

$5,000 + 2% success fee inc GSTExplore → 04

Development sites

Off-market sites, quick feasibility with the Feaso Filter™, planning research, DA precedent review, and JV teaser decks for capital partners.

$5,000 + 2% success fee inc GSTExplore →

04 · Who it's for

I only work with investors.

✓ We'll get along if you're

A residential investor1st-through-Nth property. Growth or yield. Post-reform aware.
An SMSF trustee$250K+ member balances, buying inside the fund.
Moving into commercialChasing 4–7% net yields and longer leases.
A developer or JV partnerBuying to subdivide, reposition, or build.

✕ I'm the wrong fit if you're

Buying a home to live inOther agents do this well; I don't do it at all.
Buying on emotionIf the brief is a feeling, I'll say so on the first call.
After a pitch, not a thesisEvery engagement starts with cash flow modelling and portfolio fit. No thesis, no engagement.

05 · The origin

I bought my first property at 19.

Everyone told me I was too young, the unit was too small, the suburb was too boring. Nobody could argue with the rent covering the mortgage. Years later it had more than quintupled, and I'd stopped listening to opinions about property altogether.

The lesson wasn't the profit. It was that the numbers knew before anyone else did.

After years in finance and mortgage broking, I kept meeting smart professionals stuck between bad advice and spruikers. So I built the system I wished existed: data on 15,000+ suburbs, pocket-level scoring, and cash flow models that already assume the post-May 2027 rules.

Outside the numbers: a good shiraz, a long lunch, and telling anyone who'll listen that the pocket matters more than the postcode.

As featured in Elite Agent: “From finance to property investment expert” · April 2026

06 · The receipts

Real purchases. Real numbers. Verbatim reviews.

Every claim on this site traces back to a settled purchase. Four featured here; the running ledger, suburb by suburb across five states, lives on the results page with the Google reviews quoted word for word.

Residential7 days

★★★★★

“Amazing from the get-go and not a pushy salesman at all. He explained everything really well, and it was so nice having someone to guide you from start to finish.”

ShannynFirst purchase, Muswellbrook NSW · Google review One of 33 Google reviews that name me directly. Read them all →

07 · The next move

Bring the goal. I'll bring the thesis, the numbers, and the deal.

A strategy call is 30 minutes. You leave with the property analysis and cash flow model either way, free. The numbers are the pitch.

Book a strategy call

Best fit: $50K+ in cash or equity · household income $200K+ · buying in the next 1–3 months.
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