Buyers Agent in the Inner WestGet the Advantage You Couldn’t on Your Own

The Inner West’s trusted buyers agents & actual locals.

Whether we’re finding the home, negotiating the price or winning it at auction, we go in like the money’s our own — so you land the right one for less.

Free · 30 seconds · No obligation

★★★★★ 5 · 56+ Google reviews

Green two-storey Victorian terrace with cast-iron lace and arched windows, Darlington
★★★★★ 5Rated by 56+ clients
Oliver Burton and Clare, Lumin Property Buyers

Why Lumin

  • Active Auctioneernegotiating on your behalf
  • ★ 5.056+ Google reviews
  • 3–6×fee saved*
  • $275,719,000of property purchased
  • LicensedNo. 10105710

As seen in

  • The Sydney Morning Herald
  • The Australian Financial Review
  • The Daily Telegraph
  • Domain
  • realestate.com.au
  • 10 News

Buying in the Inner West: what you need to know

Ah the Inner West, a real estate market as diverse as the people who call it home. Value swings on which street, which side of it, and how long the walk to the station actually takes once you have done it in the rain. A suburb median tells you very little about the home you are standing in.

Victorian and Federation terraces, workers' cottages, interwar semis, warehouse conversions and a rising volume of new apartments. Each carries its own trap. Damp and rear lane access decide the terraces, the strata report matters more than the finish on a conversion, and two semis can look identical on paper and be nothing alike in practice.

We live here, and we buy here all the time, and that's what matters. Knowing which streets carry a discount for rail noise, which blocks will never fit a second car, which neighbours have sold to a developer, and what a place is genuinely worth on the day is the difference between paying the best price and paying the price the campaign was always hoping for.

Painted wren mural on the side wall of a house in an Annandale back lane

Three ways we can help you get a property in the Inner West

  • Ideal outcome at every step

    Search & Secure

    We search for you — uncapped opportunities across off-market, pre-market and on-market, built on your full brief.

    • Full review of off-, pre- and on-market stock in our database
    • We contact owners and agents in your target streets
    • Extensive due diligence on the property before you commit
    • Then we negotiate or bid to secure it
    Average saving 3× our fee
  • You search, we'll buy!

    Advice & Acquisition

    Found something? We'll do the due diligence, tell you what it's really worth, and buy it for you.

    • Full due diligence, plus the right experts around you
    • Comparable sales report and recent-trend analysis
    • We make the offers and negotiate with the agent
    • We'll bid at auction if that's the best strategy
    Average saving 6× our fee
  • Game day guidance

    Auction Day Expert

    Got the property and the price in mind? Put a practising auctioneer on your side of the bidding.

    • A bidding strategy built on experience and agent feedback
    • We attend and bid on your behalf, to your instructions
    • We represent you in post-auction negotiations if it passes in

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Real homes. Real buyers. Real reviews.

(Some of) what we’ve bought across Sydney’s Inner West, Inner City, Eastern Suburbs & beyond — rated 5 from 56+ Google reviews.

  • Drummoyne property secured for a Lumin client
    Drummoyne
    ★★★★★

    “Within a month, we secured our dream home”

    YYana
  • Newtown property secured for a Lumin client
    Newtown
    ★★★★★

    “Reviews like this can often feel forced or inauthentic, but we genuinely found our dream home in under two weeks with the Lumin team”

    MMatt
  • Leichhardt property secured for a Lumin client
    Leichhardt
    ★★★★★

    “He secured our new home within 48 hours of us signing him up”

    MMaryann
  • Balmain East property secured for a Lumin client
    Balmain East
    ★★★★★

    “Even better, he negotiated the sale over the course of a day, less than a week after it came on the market”

    GGermaine
  • Lilyfield property secured for a Lumin client
    Lilyfield
    ★★★★★

    “They handled all negotiations leaving us to make decisions with a clear head”

    SSophie
  • Camperdown property secured for a Lumin client
    Camperdown
    ★★★★★

    “He really knows the industry and is so skilled at handling auctions and negotiating the best deal for his clients”

    RRosane
  • Newtown property secured for a Lumin client
    Newtown
    ★★★★★

    “Their network within the agencies helped us inspect far more houses than we would have if we had relied solely on online search”

    NNabeel
  • Marrickville property secured for a Lumin client
    Marrickville
    ★★★★★

    “Oli navigated the process and took away the stress”

    BBron

The fee

Flat fee, agreed upfront, conditional on success.

You’ll know the exact figure before we start, and it’s fixed — it doesn’t climb as the price does. That leaves us one job: getting your price down.

You may also be able to buy something you thought you were priced out of. Answer four quick questions and we’ll give you an honest read on what your budget can actually secure in your area.

  1. 1Four quick questionsAbout thirty seconds — just enough for us to come to the call prepared.
  2. 2A quick callThe real conversation. We’ll learn what you’re chasing and tell you honestly whether we can help — no pressure either way.
  3. 3Coffee, not a pitchIf we’re a fit, we’ll meet over coffee, show you the behind-the-scenes numbers and how we’d buy for you — no hard sell, just confirming it both ways.
Oliver Burton and Clare, Lumin Property BuyersYou’ll be dealing with us — Oli & ClareNot a junior, not a call centre. The two of us, start to finish.

Why we qualify

We only work with a handful of buyers at a time. That’s how every search gets full due diligence and our full attention, start to finish — and it’s why our reviews read the way they do.

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Servicing Sydney’s Inner West

52 suburbs across Sydney’s Inner West, Inner City and Eastern Suburbs.

  • Abbotsford2046
  • Alexandria2015
  • Annandale2038
  • Ashbury2193
  • Ashfield2131
  • Balmain2041
  • Balmain East2041
  • Beaconsfield2015
  • Birchgrove2041
  • Camperdown2050
  • Chippendale2008
  • Chiswick2046
  • Darlinghurst2010
  • Darlington2008
  • Drummoyne2047
  • Dulwich Hill2203
  • Earlwood2206
  • Erskineville2043
  • Eveleigh2015
  • Five Dock2046
  • Forest Lodge2037
  • Gladesville2111
  • Glebe2037
  • Haberfield2045
  • Hunters Hill2110
  • Hurlstone Park2193
  • Leichhardt2040
  • Lewisham2049
  • Lilyfield2040
  • Marrickville2204
  • Moore Park2021
  • Newtown2042
  • Paddington2021
  • Petersham2049
  • Pyrmont2009
  • Redfern2016
  • Rosebery2018
  • Rozelle2039
  • Russell Lea2046
  • St Peters2044
  • Stanmore2048
  • Summer Hill2130
  • Surry Hills2010
  • Sydenham2044
  • Sydney2000
  • Tempe2044
  • The Rocks2000
  • Ultimo2007
  • Wareemba2046
  • Waterloo2017
  • Woolloomooloo2011
  • Zetland2017
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