Timing
Two contracts, two settlement dates, one removalist. Get the order wrong and you rent in between, or carry two loans.
Almost everyone who sells is buying in the same breath. Yet the industry hands you two agents, each working half of your move, and nobody in the gap between them. Alan Weiss runs both sides, as the single decision they really are.
Watch the video explainerOne adviser
Across both sides
One plan
For the order and the dates
One move
Not two
Since 1990
In the Eastern Suburbs
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The gap between two agents, the order that shapes your year, the spread that decides how your move lands, and how one adviser closes the gap. Captions are on, so it works with the sound off.
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The gap
The selling agent’s job ends at exchange. A buyer’s agent’s job starts when you call. The hard part of moving sits between the two, and nobody is paid to own it.
Two contracts, two settlement dates, one removalist. Get the order wrong and you rent in between, or carry two loans.
What you sell for and what you pay are one number, not two. The gap between them decides how the move lands.
If one side slips, the other has to bend. Someone has to plan for that before either contract is signed.
A buyer with a sold home is a stronger buyer. Only someone working both sides can use that for you.
The first decision
Sell first, buy first, or line them up together. It sounds like admin. It’s the decision that most shapes whether your move is smooth, or the most stressful year you’ve had. Choose a route to see what it means.
Sell first
You know exactly what you have to spend. But the clock starts, and you may rent, or move twice, while you search.
How Alan handles itNegotiates a longer settlement on your sale, so there’s time to buy well.
Buy first
You secure the home you want. But you may carry two loans for a time, and feel pushed to take the first fair offer on your sale.
How Alan handles itLaunches your sale quickly, with a settlement date that meets your purchase. Talk to your lender about bridging before you buy.
Together
Your sale and your purchase settle on the same day. No gap, no second move. It only works if both contracts line up.
How Alan handles itAligns the dates in both contracts from the start, and plans what happens if either side slips.
The spread
A soft market worries sellers. But if you’re buying too, the same market is working for you on the other side. The number that matters isn’t the headline. It’s the spread between what you sell for and what you pay.
−$200,000
−$140,000
$1,140,000
$60,000
The headline says your home lost $200,000. Your move changed by $60,000: you release $60,000 less.
An illustration. It assumes both homes move with the market by the same amount. Real markets rarely move in perfect step, which is why Alan prices both sides on the evidence.
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The Spread. Alan on why the gap between your sale and your purchase is the number that matters.
How it works
Your sale and your purchase run side by side, not one after the other. At every step, Alan ties them together, so a decision on one side is made with the other in view.
Your sale
An honest price for your home, with the evidence.
Your purchase
What that buys, where, and what it costs.
What ties themYour net position, before anything is signed.
Your sale
Method of sale, timing, preparation.
Your purchase
Your brief, budget and suburbs.
What ties themThe order, and the settlement dates both sides aim for.
Your sale
Prepared, styled if it helps, photographed.
Your purchase
The search starts, on the portals and off them.
What ties themBoth sides moving at once, not one after the other.
Your sale
Long opens. Every offer to you in writing.
Your purchase
Shortlist inspected. Contract and reports checked.
What ties themHow your sale is going sets how hard to push on the buy.
Your sale
Exchange, with a date that fits the purchase.
Your purchase
Priced on the evidence. Negotiated, or bid to your limit.
What ties themThe certainty of your sale used as leverage on the purchase.
Your sale
Final inspection. Keys to your buyer.
Your purchase
Deposit, final inspection, your keys.
What ties themBoth settlements timed so you move once.
Your sale
Sold and settled.
Your purchase
Bought and settled.
What ties themOne move. One adviser. Done.
What proper counsel sounds like
Two agents can each answer half. These need someone looking at both sides at once. Tap a question for Alan’s view.
Alan’s viewAlan prices both homes on the comparable sales, then watches how the gap moves. Not the headlines.
Alan’s viewA buyer with a sold home is a stronger buyer. Sometimes that’s worth more than the home you might miss. Sometimes it isn’t. Alan tells you which.
Alan’s viewA longer settlement, an early deposit release, bridging, or a stay after settlement. Agreed before anything is signed, so you’re never left holding two homes by accident.
Alan’s viewThe comparable sales that price your home also tell Alan what not to overpay for the next one.
Is this you
Tap whatever applies to you.
Only selling? Selling with Weiss. Only buying? Buying with Alan.
Common questions
General information about selling and buying in New South Wales, current at October 2026. It isn’t legal, tax or financial advice. Your solicitor, conveyancer and lender will confirm what applies to you.
Yes. That’s the service. He sells your home, and acts as your buyer’s agent on the next one, with both sides planned as one move.
He can’t act for you on that one. NSW law prevents an agent acting for both the buyer and the seller of the same property. He’ll tell you up front.
Each side is set out in writing before Alan starts: the selling fee and the buying fee. Ask him how they work when he handles both.
That’s the plan you make on day one. A longer settlement, an early deposit release where the contract allows it, bridging finance, or a stay after settlement. Your solicitor and lender confirm what fits.
Yes, for both contracts. Your solicitor or conveyancer advises on each, and handles the conveyancing. Alan keeps everyone to one timetable.
Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, where he has sold since 1990.
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If your next step means selling and buying, talk it through before either side is committed: the order, the timing and your net position. Confidential, and without obligation.
0412 176 074Alan Weiss · Weiss Real Estate · Licence 218396
Serving Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs since 1990