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Buying a Rent Roll? What Every Agency Principal Needs to Know Before Signing

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This Session Is for You If:

  • You’re a real estate principal or agency owner ready to expand through acquisition

  • You’re a sales agent or PM stepping into ownership and thinking about buying your first rent roll

  • You're a growth-minded agency leader who’s sick of wasting time on tyre-kickers and wants to secure quality rent rolls the smart way

  • You’re not 100% confident in what to look for when assessing a rent roll or seller

  • You’ve heard horror stories of buyers getting burned—and don’t want to be next

  • You’re unsure what your contract should include to actually protect your purchase price

  • You’ve been told “just do a spot check” and you’re wondering what else you might be missing

Why Do You Need It?

Buying a rent roll can be one of the fastest ways to grow your real estate agency if you do it right. In this practical, real-world session, we’ll unpack:

The 5 critical due diligence mistakes buyers make

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The truth about retentions and how to avoid overpaying

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Contract tips to protect you from moments that ruin deals

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Pros and cons of having the seller stay on

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How our real estate agency lawyers can help with your next acquisition

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Real-life cases we handled that you can learn from

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Meet Your Hosts

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Kristen Porter
Partner, Realgate Legal

Kristen Porter has Real Estate in her blood. As a third-generation, Kristen was born into the real estate industry and has a passion for it that no other lawyer has. Kristen is an expert in business and privacy law for the real estate industry and loves helping agencies just like yours.

With over 18 years of legal experience, she has a proven track record of helping agencies start and grow their agencies, buy & sell rent rolls, getting ready for sale, and assisting with matters related to shareholder agreements, employment law, commission arrangements, franchising, and all things real estate business and privacy.

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Luke Shumack
Partner, Realgate Legal

Luke brings a unique mix of legal expertise and industry insight to his work with real estate agencies across Australia.

As a trusted legal advisor, he helps principals, agents, and support staff navigate their compliance obligations without the jargon.

Luke is known for breaking down complex legal concepts into plain English and helping agencies implement practical systems that actually work. Luke helps clients on a daily basis to sell and acquire rent rolls.

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Realgate Legal is a law firm built for the real estate industry. We help agency principals protect their business, manage risk and make confident commercial decisions so they can build stronger, more valuable agencies.

Our team includes lawyers, some with real estate licences and firsthand experience working in and operating real estate businesses. By combining industry knowledge with strategic legal advice, we help agencies establish strong foundations, navigate growth and protect what matters.

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Boring legal stuff: Whilst this webinar has been designed and prepared by experts and lawyers, this is general advice only and cannot be relied upon as legal or valuation advice as it does not take into consideration your exact agency circumstances. This information is for guidance only as there are many variables in your agency. Contact us to find out if any of these variables apply to you. Whilst we may provide high level advice in live group sessions, you are not covered by professional legal privilege in those settings and anything sensitive or potentially litigious should only be discussed privately to maintain privilege. When we have 1 on 1 sessions with you, those sessions are regarded as legal advice. PS - congratulations if you have read this far, you must love legal disclaimers or are a sucker for punishment.