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Buying Your First Home — The Book for First Home Buyers Who Want to Actually Understand the Process

A calm, clear guide to buying your first home in Australia. 17 chapters covering borrowing, deposits, loans, offers, and settlement. Now on Amazon.

The book is here.

Buying Your First Home is now available on Amazon — and if you’ve ever sat down to research the process and come away more confused than when you started, this is the book I wish existed when my clients needed it most.

It covers the entire first home buying journey from the questions you should be asking before you even think about a property, through to settlement day and the first year of ownership. Not a checklist. Not a step-by-step guide full of things you already knew. A genuine explanation of how the process works, what the system is actually doing, and how to make decisions you’ll feel good about long after you’ve got the keys.

17 chapters. Everything from borrowing capacity and deposits, to pre-approval, loan selection, making an offer, contracts, and what happens in the first year after you move in. Written for first home buyers who want to understand what they’re doing — not just be told what to do.

If you’re thinking about buying, or you know someone who is, this is the starting point.

Available now in paperback.

Buying Your First Home on Amazon

There is also a page about the book with the companion notes, six short emails on how a first home purchase is assessed.

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