Highgate Buyer’s Agent

An Agent On Your Side Of The Table

In Highgate you are usually up against families when a good house comes up. Detached homes made up 69.6% of the suburb’s occupied dwellings in 2021 and 40.6% of homes were owned outright, so a good share of the suburb stays with long-term owners. When the right house does appear, it helps to know your limit and be ready to act.

An Axiom Realty buyer’s agent has one client in the deal, and that is you. We search and inspect, price each candidate off nearby sales and achievable rent, do the negotiating and manage the run to settlement.

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Buying in Highgate

Schools, streets and what to check

Highgate is in the City of Unley, next to Fullarton and Malvern. Highgate School on Hampstead Avenue opened in 1923, and Concordia College has its secondary campus on Winchester Street and an early learning to Year 6 campus on Highgate Street. Zoning and enrolment rules change, so confirm them with the school concerned.

Many houses here are older, so the building inspection should cover the roof, salt damp in the masonry, wall cracking, the stormwater and the wiring. With a unit or townhouse, read the levy history, the reserve fund and the latest minutes ahead of any offer.

Plans to extend or rebuild may need consent under the Planning and Design Code; PlanSA’s lookup gives the controls for a given street address.

How Our Buyer’s Agents Work in Highgate

Brief, search, offer, keys

First we pin down your budget, the home you need and what you mean to do with it. Next we comb the market, walk through the likely houses and value each from comparable sales and a realistic rent.

Once a house earns an offer, we handle the negotiation, or stand at the auction as your bidder. The contract is reviewed together with you, and we help through each step to settlement. A property that fails the numbers gets an honest verdict from us: walk away.

For investors, Highgate’s rental demand is family-led. Couples with children were 51.8% of families in 2021, so a three- or four-bedroom house near the schools suits much of the demand. We weigh rent and vacancy against the price before advising a bid.

Buying in Highgate from Interstate or Overseas

Distance buyers and the suburbs around

Living outside Adelaide needn’t slow you down. We go through the house for you and send footage or a written report on the building, the street and the defects photos tend to hide. Your bidding can be done by us on auction day, with updates through the contract.

As soon as you settle, Axiom’s property managers can lease the house and run the tenancy, and owners living interstate can read about our interstate property management. For more of our work here, visit property management in Highgate and selling in Highgate.

Our buyer’s agents also search in Fullarton, Netherby, Kingswood, Hyde Park and Myrtle Bank.

Suburb breakdown

Highgate at a glance

Rents from Axiom’s local market notes.

Median house rent: $670; per week
Median unit rent: $660; per week
To the GPO: 4.1 km; straight line
Nearest Axiom listing: 1 km; unley park
Postcode: 5063; Central Adelaide

Around Highgate

Median house rent

< $670
$670–$748
$748–$780
$780–$850
$850+

Axiom Realty near HighgateThe closest Axiom listings

No.	Address	Suburb	Bed · Bath · Car	Price
01	4 King StUnley ParkLeased	Unley Park	3 · 1 · 1	$740 /week
02	4 King StUnley ParkFor Sale	Unley Park	3 · 1 · 1	$1,750,000
03	41 Florence StFullartonLeased	Fullarton	3 · 1 · 2	$780 /week
04	Unit 7/122 L'Estrange StGlenungaLeased	Glenunga	2 · 1 · 0	$430 /week
05	Unit 1/623 Portrush RdGlen OsmondLeased	Glen Osmond	1 · 1 · 1	$390 /week
06	Unit 3/49 L'Estrange StGlensideLeased	Glenside	2 · 1 · 2	$600 /week

Nothing listed in Highgate itself right now. Join Property Watch to hear first when something comes up.

Common Highgate Buyer’s Agent FAQs

Have a Question?

The roof, salt damp, wall cracking, stormwater and wiring, plus any planning controls on the changes you have in mind. Those findings go into our view of what the house is worth to you.

Yes. We can focus the search on homes within easy reach of the Winchester Street and Highgate Street campuses, or Highgate School, and assess each against comparable sales. Confirm enrolment rules with the school itself.

Yes. Together we set a ceiling from the sales evidence, then we register and bid in your name, keeping you on the line if you wish.

For an investor wanting a family tenant, it can. Renters lived in 22.9% of homes in 2021. Before you commit, we check a property’s expected rent and vacancy against its price.

Our fees depend on the level of service you need. We discuss them up front at the first consultation and set them out in writing, with no hidden costs.

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By placing people at the heart of what we do the landlord-tenant relationship becomes a matter of genuine trust and good-will, instead of duties and responsibilities.

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