Forever Home · Gold Coast & Northern Rivers

Your forever home, found by someone who actually lives here.

Houses, apartments, townhouses, acreage or a development site — buying anywhere from Coolangatta to Coomera, or across the border into Tweed Heads and the Northern Rivers? I'm your independent buyer's agent on the ground: one flat fee, no developer or selling-agent commissions, and a Class 1 Real Estate Agent & Auctioneer's licence since 2015.

Why buyers use us
Based interstate or overseas
Can't inspect every property
Don't know the local market
Want someone representing only them
2015
Licensed Real Estate Agent & Auctioneer, Class 1
$0
Received from developers or selling agents — ever
FLAT
Fee agreed upfront, never a % of purchase price
GC+NR
Gold Coast & Northern Rivers, every suburb

Buying from afar

Your eyes and ears on the Gold Coast — wherever you're calling from.

Relocating for lifestyle, work, or family, and can't be here every weekend to inspect? I walk every serious property myself, before it ever reaches your shortlist.

Interstate buyers

You're in Sydney, Melbourne or anywhere else

You get a local advocate who knows the streets, the schools, the traffic patterns and the difference between a good buy and a good listing photo — without booking a single flight.

Overseas buyers

You're planning your move from abroad

FIRB guidance where relevant, remote-friendly process end to end, and communication scheduled around your time zone — so distance never costs you the right home.

Filmed walkthroughs

See it before you fly in

Every property on your shortlist gets a proper video walkthrough — street, street noise, light, layout — so the trip you do make is to sign, not to guess.

A smarter first move

Buy it to live in. Move on when life does. Keep it tax-free for six years.

  • Move in genuinely — establish it as your home, not a paper exercise.
  • Life changes, you move on — a new job, a growing family, a change of scene.
  • Rent it out and it can remain fully exempt from capital gains tax for up to six years under the ATO's main residence rule.
  • One property at a time — you can't claim the exemption on two homes at once.

General information only, not personal tax advice. Always confirm eligibility with your accountant before relying on this strategy.

YEAR 0
Buy your forever home — we find and secure it, negotiated or won at auction, for a flat fee.
YEAR 1+
Live in it as your genuine home — this is what makes everything after it work.
MOVE ON
Relocate when the time comes — rent the property out instead of selling.
UP TO 6 YRS
Sell fully CGT-exempt — provided no other property is nominated as your main residence in the meantime.

What we buy

Every property type, not just houses.

Your forever home doesn't have to be a freestanding house — we represent buyers across every property type on the Gold Coast and Northern Rivers.

H

Houses

Freestanding family homes

A

Apartments

Beachside & high-rise living

T

Townhouses

Low-maintenance, community living

Ac

Acreage

Hinterland & rural-residential

D

Development Sites

Subdivision & dual-key potential

Where we buy

Every Gold Coast suburb, plus Northern Rivers.

A forever home search isn't a suburb-median exercise — it's about matching your life to the right street. A sample of where we work most often:

Broadbeach & Mermaid Beach

Walkable, beachside, strong owner-occupier demand.

Burleigh Heads & Tallebudgera

Village lifestyle, cafes, surf — consistently sought after.

Coolangatta & Tweed Heads

Border lifestyle, beaches on both sides of the state line.

Robina & Varsity Lakes

Family-friendly, schools, canal and parkland living.

Gold Coast — Coastal
Southport Main Beach Surfers Paradise Miami Palm Beach Currumbin
Gold Coast — Northern Growth Corridor
Ormeau Oxenford Coomera Helensvale Nerang
Northern Rivers, NSW
Tweed Heads Kingscliff Murwillumbah Byron Bay region

How we're paid

One flat fee. No one else pays us to find you a home.

  • Flat fee, agreed before we start — never a percentage of what you pay, so there's no incentive to push you toward a pricier home.
  • No developer commissions — including on new-build or off-the-plan homes.
  • No selling-agent kickbacks — we're never paid to steer you toward a particular listing.
  • Buyer-only representation — never the vendor, never both sides of the same sale.
Paid by developers$0
Paid by selling agents$0
Fee tied to purchase priceNO
Who pays usYOU, ONLY
Laura McGregor Principal Buyer's Agent
Class 1 Real Estate Agent & Auctioneer
Licensed since 2015
Residential & Commercial

About

Local knowledge, backed by a decade on both sides of the industry.

I've held my real estate licence since 2015 as a Class 1 Real Estate Agent and Auctioneer, across residential and commercial property. I know how selling agents run a campaign and how auctions really play out — because I've run them myself.

For forever-home buyers, that means someone in your corner who can read a listing, a campaign and a room the way the other side does — and who isn't getting paid a cent by anyone but you.

If you're relocating to the Gold Coast from interstate or overseas, I do the legwork you can't: inspecting, filming, shortlisting and negotiating on the ground, so the only trip you need to make is the one to move in.

How it works

From brief to keys in hand.

01

Brief & strategy

A free call to understand your must-haves, timeline, and whether the "live-in-then-convert" strategy fits your plans.

02

Shortlist & film

Every genuine contender is inspected and filmed in person before it reaches you.

03

Negotiate or bid

Private treaty negotiation or on-the-day auction bidding by a licensed auctioneer.

04

Settlement

Coordinated with your conveyancer and broker, wherever you're settling in from.

FAQ

Common questions

Do you only handle houses, and only right on the coast?

No — we represent buyers across houses, apartments, townhouses, acreage and development sites, and across every Gold Coast suburb from Coolangatta to Coomera, plus Tweed Heads and the Northern Rivers. Whatever the property type or the postcode, the same flat-fee, no-commission approach applies.

I'm interstate — do I need to fly up for every inspection?

No. I inspect and film every serious property in person, so you're only travelling for the properties genuinely worth seeing yourself, and for settlement.

How is this different from a relocation agent?

I'm a licensed buyer's agent and auctioneer, not a concierge service — I negotiate and bid on your behalf, and I'm paid one flat fee by you alone, never a commission from anyone else in the transaction.

Can I turn this home into an investment property later?

Many clients plan for exactly that. Living in it genuinely first, then renting it out later, can preserve the CGT exemption for up to six years under current ATO rules — we build that possibility into the search from day one where it fits your plans.

Get started

Let's find your Gold Coast forever home.

A free, no-obligation briefing — including honest advice if we're not the right fit.

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