Thursday 19 November 2026 | 12pm-1pm AEDT | Online
Are you planning to buy a home or investment property in the next 12 months? Knowing how to make a sound decision can be overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be.
Join Michelle May, ESBWA Industry Partner and Founder and Principal of Michelle May Buyers Agents, for a free webinar on the five checks to run before you buy any property, including the one most buyers skip, and how to do each one yourself in under an hour.
You’ll learn:
The contract: what to have your solicitor check before you commit, what a 66W is, and why an agent pushing you to sign one should make you slow down
The building: building and pest every time, and for anything with shared walls, the strata report and five years of minutes, where the arguments and the water leaks live
The street and surrounds: main roads, flood mapping, flight paths and school catchments, and how each one affects what the property is worth in ten years
What's coming next door: the development application on the neighbouring block, the zoning, and the phone call to council most buyers never make
The price: how to work out what a property is actually worth from comparable sales when the guide is doing its best to mislead you, and why a bank's automated valuation isn't the answer
You'll walk away knowing:
The five checks to complete on any property before you make an offer, in the order to do them
How to read a strata report and its minutes well enough to spot a special levy or a water problem before it's yours
How to set a walk-away price for a specific property from real comparable sales, and hold to it
The one check almost nobody does (what's planned next door) and the ten-minute way to do it
Who it’s for:
This is for anyone planning to buy a home or investment property, at any budget. Especially useful for first-time buyers, members upgrading to a family home, women buying on their own, and anyone who has missed out at auction or walked away from a purchase feeling they didn't know what they were looking at. The checks apply anywhere in Australia, with examples from Sydney. This is the property side, not lending or legal advice.
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About Michelle
Michelle May is an independent Sydney buyers agent of 18 years, host of the Buy Your Side podcast and creator of the Better Home Buying course. She leads Michelle May Buyers Agents, a flat-fee agency of experienced buyers agents working only for the buyer. Named Buyers Agency of the Year at the 2026 Inner West Local Business Awards, Michelle is a regular media commentator on property, with appearances including The Project, 7 News, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Financial Review. Her view is simple: finding the property is the easy part. It's what happens next that matters.