Edith Street, Leichhardt, NSW

Damian Steele was working with a first-home buyer using the government’s first home buyer scheme, focused on an inner-city apartment in Alexandria or Zetland. Her brief was clear, but Steele felt those areas were not the best fit for what she actually wanted or for her longer-term position. Rather than simply execute the search she came with, he introduced her to Leichhardt, an inner west pocket he believed offered stronger capital growth prospects and a better lifestyle match. She agreed, and Steele secured an apartment there. The outcome is a first-home buyer who not only got into the market but did so in an area chosen for growth rather than habit, with guidance that reshaped the search for the better.