Perth · Western Australia
We buy tired Perth homes. Direct sale, no agent, settle on your timeline.
Family-run, Perth-based. We talk in plain English and we don’t pressure anyone.
Family-run
Peter and Carolyn, husband and wife, based in Perth.
33 years in construction
Qualified carpenter, ran his own building company in Brisbane for 12 years.
No agents, no fees, no pressure
Direct sale, your timeline, no commissions.
Who buys your house
We’re a husband-and-wife team. Not a faceless investor.
I’m Peter Gadsden. My wife Carni and I run Gadsden Johnston Property out of Perth. We buy older homes directly from owners — homes that need work, or that are sitting empty, or that the family just wants gone without a year-long agent process.
I’m a qualified carpenter with 33 years in the trades. I ran my own residential building company in Brisbane for 12 years before moving to Perth and spending a decade in major project planning across the WA mining sector. That means when we look at your house, we know what’s structural and what’s cosmetic. We don’t lowball you on imaginary problems, and we don’t undercut on the easy stuff. We also fund every purchase ourselves or with capital we’ve personally invested alongside — there’s no third-party investor pressuring us to chip your price down.
Carni handles the conversations and Peter does the walkthroughs. Our son works alongside us. This is genuinely a family business, not a marketing front for a faceless investor. We’ve built this around the kind of selling experience we’d want our own parents to have.
Situations we buy in
We probably can help if you’re...
- Settling a deceased estate and don't want to spend months on agent listings, repairs, and inspections
- Downsizing and want to skip the stress of staging, open homes, and chains of buyers
- Going through divorce or separation and need a fast, clean settlement
- Behind on payments or facing a forced sale, and want to act before the bank does
- An interstate or absentee owner who doesn't want to fly back for a renovation
How it works
Three steps. No surprises.
Tell us about the house.
Call, or fill in the short form below. We'll ask a few questions about the property and your situation. 5–10 min.
We'll come and have a look.
Free, no obligation. Peter walks through, takes notes, asks about the history. We don't bring an entourage.
We make a written offer.
Usually within 48 hours. Take it, leave it, sleep on it. If you accept, we use a local Perth solicitor to handle settlement on the date you choose.
What you won’t get from us
What we don’t do.
No high-pressure sales tactics.
We've never closed a deal with a stopwatch and we never will. If you need a week to think, take a week.
No “free property reports” or sweepstakes gimmicks.
Our offer is the offer. We're not buying your details to flog you something else later.
No surprise fees or last-minute price drops.
The number we put on paper is the number that lands in your account at settlement.
Questions
The questions people actually ask.
How do you work out what to offer?
We look at recent sales of comparable Perth homes, then subtract what it'll honestly cost us to bring it up to a saleable standard plus a reasonable margin. We'll show you our working if you want to see it.
Will you offer me less than market value?
Yes, almost always. That's the trade-off — you skip the agent fees (typically 2–3% = $15–25k on a $700k Perth home), repair costs, months of holding costs, open homes, and the uncertainty of waiting. For some sellers that's a great trade. For others it isn't.
How fast can it actually settle?
As fast as 14 days if you need it, or as long as 6 months if you'd rather take your time. Your call.
Are you a real Perth business?
Yes. ABN 61 437 477 972. Husband-and-wife operation based in Perth. You can call us, meet us at the house, or check the ABN on the Australian Business Register.
Ready to talk?
Pick up the phone, or write a few lines.
Whichever feels easier. Carni picks up most of our calls — she’s been doing customer-facing work for 30+ years and is the one most people end up speaking to first.
Mon–Fri 8am–6pm WA time