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Bidding at auction is one of the most high-pressure, stressful parts of buying property, you’re about to make one of the most crucial decisions in your life, with long-term consequences and in most cases, it provides little to no advantage for the buyer. Auctions are designed to create a competitive and emotional environment where buyers often feel vulnerable, especially if they’ve never experienced one before. The fast pace and lack of time to think strategically can lead to poor decisions—either overpaying in the heat of the moment or hesitating and missing out entirely. Additionally, auctioneers are highly skilled professionals trained to influence the process in favor of the seller, often without buyers even realizing how their tactics work.
Using a buyer’s agent to bid on your behalf is a game-changer. Not only does it eliminate the stress and emotional pressure, but it also ensures that you have an expert who knows the “rules” of the auction and can level the playing field. A buyer’s agent brings strategy, composure, and experience to the table, making calculated moves to secure the property at the best possible price. They can also bid anonymously on your behalf, preserving your privacy and avoiding the attention of other bidders. If you’re unavailable to attend the auction or uncomfortable with the process, a buyer’s agent ensures that you won’t have to rely on the selling agent, who ultimately works for the vendor. With their guidance, you can navigate the auction process confidently, avoid costly mistakes, and maximize your chances of securing the property without regret.
Our professional Buyers Agents have extensive experience at auctions and avoid the auctioneer’s strategies to drive the final price further up. With our strategic approach, we reduce the competition, keeping the property well within your budget.
Auctions involve a lot of split-moment decisions and it’s easy to be strung along in such an emotional environment. Where each second means thousands of dollars, our objective approach manages expectations and ensures an auction without negative influences from personal feelings, allowing you to bid confidently.
With weekly attendance to multiple auctions, we collaborate with each client on an individual level, delivering strategies based on data and evidence focused on their goals. These strategies are battled hardened and proven over 14 years of auction bidding experience.
We conduct a thorough analysis of the property and leverage local market data to determine its true value. This ensures you’re not overpaying and that your purchase aligns with current market conditions, giving you confidence in your decision.
We develop a personalised bidding strategy that considers every detail of your unique circumstances, the property in question, the selling agent, and the auctioneer. Every piece of information—no matter how small—is carefully analysed and factored into your bespoke plan to ensure the best possible outcome at auction.
Our team has attended thousands of auctions over the past decade, making us experts in navigating even the most unpredictable scenarios. There’s nothing that can happen at an auction that we haven’t already seen or experienced. Unlike an individual attending their first auction, we bring a calm, composed, and strategic approach that only comes with years of expertise. Our experience ensures you have a steady hand guiding you through the process, no matter how high the pressure.
We utilize a variety of advanced bidding tactics specifically designed to outmaneuver competitors and secure the property on your behalf. Every strategy is meticulously tailored to the unique dynamics of the auction, including the behavior of the agent, the style of the auctioneer, and the current market conditions. It’s the subtle details—refined through attending thousands of auctions over the past decade—that set us apart. This level of expertise ensures every move we make is calculated and effective, giving you a decisive edge in even the most competitive auction scenarios.
We ensure complete confidentiality for our clients, managing transactions discreetly and negotiating on your behalf to maintain full privacy. This ensures your private affairs, don’t become public knowledge.
Our auction bidding service delivers consistent, measurable results, time and time again. The auction process is filled with nuances and complexities, and having a seasoned professional who has encountered and mastered them all is critical to achieving the best possible outcome. With our expertise and track record of success, you can trust that you’ll be represented with skill, strategy, and confidence, ensuring you secure the property at the right price.
Bidding at auction is one of the most high-pressure moments in the property-buying process. You’re making a crucial financial decision with long-term consequences, often in a setting designed to favor the seller. The fast pace, intense competition, and lack of time to think strategically can lead to overpaying or missing out entirely. Auctioneers are skilled at influencing outcomes in the vendor’s favor, often without buyers realizing it.
Having a buyer’s agent bid on your behalf changes everything. They bring strategy, composure, and experience to ensure you stay in control and secure the property at the best price. A buyer’s agent knows the auction process inside out, neutralizing high-pressure tactics and giving you a critical advantage. They can also bid anonymously to protect your privacy and step in if you’re unable to attend. With expert representation, you can navigate the auction confidently, avoid costly mistakes, and maximize your chances of success.
Absolutely. The auctioneer will need a letter of authority before the auction begins. It’s not unusual for buyers or investors to want to remain anonymous or have an expert guide them through one of the most stressful situations we’ll find ourselves in.
Before the auction, we establish a clear bidding strategy based on your budget and goals—and we stick to it. By carefully analysing other bidders’ behaviour and market dynamics, we make informed decisions to ensure you never overpay. You can choose to be present at the auction, join us via phone, or simply receive a call with the result, giving you full control and peace of mind throughout the process.
It’s the bid a homeowner can make on their own property. By law, they’re allowed one bid but it must be noted as the vendor bid when it’s placed.
Absolutely. Our extensive experience in auction bidding, market knowledge, and strategic approach give us a clear advantage. We come prepared with pricing strategies, understand market value, and know how to control the bidding to prevent unnecessary price inflation. Our expertise allows us to assess other buyers, gaining insights into their behavior and intentions. If a property is passed in, our expert negotiation skills come into play to secure the best possible deal.
We also understand the significance of vendor bids and reserve prices, using this knowledge to our advantage. With many of our agents being former sales agents, we have been on the other side of the auction process—so not only do we understand auctions from the buyer’s perspective but also from the seller’s, giving us a unique edge in securing the best outcome.
It means that once you’ve signed the contract, you have to buy the property. No inspections or reports are possible after this point, which is why it’s so important to research the property thoroughly beforehand. would like help researching the property prior to attending the auction and please reach out to us to learn more about our due diligence process.
Absolutely, but timing is critical. A buyer’s agent can strategically present an offer during the campaign to secure the property before it reaches auction—or even before it hits the market. If the property does go to auction, we provide expert guidance on the best bidding strategy to maximize your chances of success while ensuring you don’t overpay.
Not necessarily, though the sales agent and auctioneer are there for one reason and one reason only, to achieve the highest possible sale price for the client, the vendor. This goes against the buyer’s interests, who are trying to secure the property foir little as possible. Combined with their strategies to up the price, such as using a vendor bid or reserve price, having a buyer’s Agent bidding for you levels the playing field.
A property auction can last anywhere from a few minutes to around 45 minutes, depending on demand and the number of active bidders. If bidding is strong, the process can move quickly, but if the reserve price isn’t met, the auction may extend into post-auction negotiations. In some cases, these negotiations can continue for days or even weeks until an agreement is reached.
The auction bidding process follows a structured format, but it can be fast-paced and unpredictable. Here’s how it typically unfolds:
Having a buyer’s agent manage the bidding ensures you stay in control, avoid emotional decisions, and maximize your chances of securing the property at the right price.
Our fees are clear, competitive, and fully transparent. We’ll outline all costs in detail during our initial consultation, ensuring you know exactly what to expect with no hidden surprises.
If the bidding exceeds your budget, we stop—simple as that. Before the auction, we establish a clear bidding limit based on your financial comfort level, and we stick to it. Our role is to keep the process strategic and disciplined, ensuring you don’t get caught up in the heat of the moment and overpay. If the property passes in, we may still have an opportunity to negotiate on your behalf to secure the best possible outcome.
Our proprietary software provides clients with access to a broader range of properties and insights beyond standard listings. We can forecast property supply in any suburb in Australia and pinpoint those most open to price negotiation.
Real estate auctions are predatory. There’s no stepping around that fact – you’re in a vulnerable position under extreme pressure without time to think or assess your next move. Understanding the auction process is crucial, as a single raised hand could set you back tens of thousands of dollars. It only takes a second. The auctioneer or real estate agent has more auction experience than you, giving them every advantage when it comes to bidding at auction.
Pivot Property Buyers’ Auction Bidding service equips you with an auction bidding strategy informed by over $1.5 billion worth of property bought & sold. The painstaking effort we take begins long before the auction, inspecting the property thoroughly, as the unconditional contract means once the hammer falls, there is no option to pull out of the purchase. As Buyers Advocates we act with the confidence that comes from performing thorough due diligence coupled with years of experience.
The auctioneers are there to raise the auction price as much as possible on the seller’s behalf. It’s so subtle you might not even be aware of their influence. You’ve put in the hard yards in researching and inspecting dozens of properties over months and surrendering your weekends, so seeing the house your heart was set on go to someone else is devastating. Having a clear strategy for bidding at auction is essential to avoid bidding wars and paying more than you need to for the property. We adjust our auction bidding service accordingly to any new developments at the auction.
A professional buyer’s agent bidding on your behalf avoids high-pressure tactics and increases the likelihood that your bid really will win. The auctioneer and agent can identify inexperienced bidders and knows how to influence their bids. We attend with our proven auction bidding strategies to place you in the best position.
If an auction is cancelled and there are private negotiations, we also offer negotiation services to ensure you receive the most favourable terms.
