NOVEMBER 2026 EDITION
The checks I run on every Brisbane home, in one guide
My 43-page guide, Before You Buy in Brisbane, walks you through choosing where to buy, checking, pricing and buying a home in Brisbane, including a chapter for buyers moving here from interstate or overseas. It’s written from 25+ years as a Registered Property Valuer and Buyer’s Agent.
- The checks I run on every property, step by step, using council and government tools you can open yourself
- How a valuer works out what a home is worth before you make an offer
- A printable inspection checklist to take to every open home
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Before You Buy in Brisbane brings together everything I check on a Brisbane property before a client makes an offer, laid out so you can do it yourself. It covers the council and government tools I use every week, examples from my own files, and the inspection checklist I take to open homes.
What’s inside the Brisbane buyer’s guide?
- Flood, overlays, schools and development: how to check flooding, overland flow, character overlays, school catchments and nearby developments, step by step, with the official links
- What a home is really worth: how a valuer works it out, and why the asking price and online estimates can both be wrong
- Where to buy: Brisbane’s north, south, east, west and inner west, plus a chapter for people relocating from interstate or overseas
- Buying as an investor: yield, outgoings and vacancy, including a summary of the negative gearing and capital gains changes that start on 1 July 2027
- Costs, contracts and a printable checklist: the costs, concessions and contract rules current at November 2026, and my Brisbane inspection checklist
The 18 chapters
- Chapter 0: Start here
- Chapter 1: Your brief, your budget and pre-approval
- Chapter 2: Where to buy in Brisbane
- Chapter 3: Relocating to Brisbane
- Chapter 4: Suburbs and streets
- Chapter 5: The flood check most buyers skip
- Chapter 6: Zoning, character and heritage overlays
- Chapter 7: What’s being built next door
- Chapter 8: School catchments
- Chapter 9: Noise, roads, flight paths, easements and sewers
- Chapter 10: Building and pest, approvals, pools and smoke alarms
- Chapter 11: Units and townhouses
- Chapter 12: Title, disclosure and the contract
- Chapter 13: What it’s really worth
- Chapter 14: Negotiating, auctions and off-market homes
- Chapter 15: The costs to budget for
- Chapter 16: Buying as an investor
- Chapter 17: The pull-out inspection checklist
- Chapter 18: Too much to do yourself? Here’s how I help
About Sam Price
I’m a Registered Property Valuer and Buyer’s Agent with 25+ years in Brisbane property and $300 million purchased for clients, and I’m rated 4.9 from more than 210 Google reviews. I live in Ashgrove and do most of my work across Brisbane’s inner west.