About Dan
I'm not a suit who read about property. I'm a tradie who bought some.
Buyers First Agency is me, Dan White, working out of Wangaratta in north-east Victoria. If you're going to trust someone with a few hundred grand of borrowed money, you should know exactly who they are. So here's the lot.
The tools came first
I started my working life on job sites, not in an office. Good money, hard work, and the same conversation in every smoko shed in the country: someone's cousin who made a killing on a house, and everyone agreeing they should get into property one day. One day.
I got sick of saying one day. So I started reading, then researching, then annoying real estate agents every weekend until they knew me by name. My first purchase taught me plenty, including a couple of lessons I'd happily have skipped.
But I kept going, got systematic about the data, and kept buying. Over a decade on, I've bought more properties across Melbourne and regional markets than I can keep straight without a spreadsheet, my own and my clients'. Somewhere in there the penny dropped: the gap between tradies who talk about property and tradies who own it isn't money. Most of us earn plenty. It's time, and knowing what to actually do with it.
Why Buyers First exists
When I looked around at buyer's agencies, most of what I found was polish. Slick suits, harbour views in the brochure, fees that grew with your budget. Dig a little and some of them had never bought an investment property with their own money in their lives.
I figured my mates deserved better. Someone who'd actually done it, charged a flat fee and showed the workings. So I built it. The name is the whole mission statement. Buyers first. Not vendors, not developers, not my commission.
Why Wangaratta?
Because it's home, and because where I live has nothing to do with where you should buy. The data doesn't care about my postcode. I buy for clients wherever the numbers stack up, and plenty of wealth gets built a long way from a capital city.
Also nobody here fights me for a carpark, and the coffee surprises Melbourne people every single time. Life's alright up here.
The short version
- Trades background. Still speaks fluent job site
- Bought his own portfolio before charging anyone a cent
- Flat $20k fee, no kickbacks
- Based in Wangaratta, buys wherever the data says
- Will talk about property until you stop him. Kate has tried
That's me. Now let's talk about you.
The first call is free and there's no pitch deck waiting for you at the end of it. Just two people working out if this makes sense.