Welcome to James Buy Sell!
You’re probably here via personal referral, reading Marketnews or have seen us in action over the last 20 plus years.
Maybe you’re a doctor, a mum, time poor? It’s 50/50 you’re local or OS/interstate.
Are you here to find what you cannot, value how others do not or to secure the unlikely?

Great, then we can help you with advice.
Advice that makes a difference, a positive one to your result. Advice that really matters.
20 years Melbourne Top End
1000+ buy sell transactions
$3m – $30m+
2022 BUY SELLS
SOUTH MELBOURNE
BOUGHT > $10M

ASPENDALE
BOUGHT > $10M

INNER MELBOURNE
BOUGHT > $22M

HAWTHORN
BOUGHT > $7M

BRIGHTON
SOLD > $6M

ARMADALE
SOLD > $8M

WINERY
BOUGHT > $3M

CANTERBURY
BOUGHT > $3M

SOUTH YARRA
SOLD > $5M

HOLISTIC VALUE ADVICE $30m – $50m
Towers Toorak

Our clients rang us from overseas. In 2016 we found and bought the most expensive house ever bought in Victoria for them. It was at the top of the cycle.
Between 2017 to 2020 the market fell – yet during this time, 30% to 40% more was offered on this same home, without going to market, not once, but 3 times.
St Georges Road Toorak

Two doctors had heard of us from colleagues and phoned to buy and sell well. We bought a home for $4m. Seven years later in 2021, that home was sale managed by us off-market for $14m. The two doctors are great at doctoring, geniuses at listening and different.
PROVENANCE ADVICE $20M – $30M
Grace Park Hawthorn

We all like a good tip, even more so, when it’s free. But who is giving it?
- Well-meaning bad advice costs millions
- Unknown agendas are often dangerous
- Lack of expertise doesn’t stop many from still giving.
Great advice is measurable, creates wealth, options and time. Great advice matters.
Inner Melbourne 2022

Some purchases are subject to formal and all to informal confidentiality understandings.
You will never see our name, next to a client’s name, next to a home in the general media, without written permission, as some clients don’t want their name up in lights.
Like this home that we bought in this $20m to $30m price bracket against 8 other bids.
It was the second job for this family, the first 20 years ago, and the first ended in an equally exciting and positive result.
In 2 weeks – 4 heritage architects, 3 town planners, 3 solicitors, a building inspection company, 6 outside agent opinions and alternatives were arranged on top of general advice which on one day included back to back to back to back meetings to work through clarity, assessment and strategies AND ultimately gave advice that the home was B position, B property and probably B price but represented an A for what was wanted and unlikely to be repeated due to 2 specific requirements and matching characteristics.
Our advice also included that the agent’s number could be and despite being in a difficult market, 50% off the mark to the final result – given in writing before any offers.
These results are more difficult if you do not have a successful behind-the-scenes team.
Bay Brighton

Our clients were readers of Marketnews, when in 2013 we were engaged for advice on how to buy a home for $5m in Bayside – and sell their previous home that same day.
Fast forward to 2021 – we advised on selling their home (without agents), whilst buying them another. Simultaneously we sold for that buyer. All off-market. All 3 same day. No banks. No media. $20m+.
EVIDENCE BASED ADVICE $10M – $20M

GAME-CHANGING BUYING ADVICE $5M – $10M
BUY SELL GROWTH ADVICE < $5M
- Our clients were readers of Marketnews, when in Covid 2020 they rang us to buy and sell.
- Six weeks later we had bought a new in Canterbury and sold the old in Kew. $3m each.
- We ran side-by-side buy and sell campaigns to lower the risk. Same day settlement.

Neighbours for Organisations / Individuals – Kew
Our client’s home is on the busiest street in Melbourne, on top of an industrial laundry and near a drug injecting room. We’d guess you say location, location, location.
No buyers through with the previous selling agent. Our advice resulted in 70 inquiries, 5 multiple visits, 2 offers, sold at full ask.
IMPACT ADVICE
EOI, Off-market, Auctions, Tenders
Find what you can’t
Value how most don’t
Secure the unlikely
Compress learning time/cost to your advantage