How Ratings Work
BUYER TESTIMONIAL
I just wanted to drop you a note to say how much we're enjoying our new house. As time goes by we appreciate it more and more - it has been extremely practical and successful, and works so well for all of us, including the menagerie of animals! By the end of the year we will be adding another two to our family as I'm expecting ...
Stephanie & Carey
black rock

We are government licensed Buyer Agents.
What do the numbers mean?
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James Home Ratings is a patented tool to make property decisions clearer, more accurate and quicker by examining every home against the same fixed demand and supply criteria.

Nobody can predict with complete certainty the behaviour of each individual buyer or seller in a property exchange - however it is possible to predict with a high level of certainty how large groups of human beings will react to a home.
That is, there is a body of facts or truths when systematically analysed that show the operation of general laws with regards to home exchange. It is therefore a science as mathematics or medicine is.
The Science of Property has laws - We have based our James Home Ratings on laws that we have developed over time.
To best match an owner's outcomes (financial and emotional) to a home's characteristics (price, property and position) we have found that the following process works.
It has three parts
Step 1 - Clarity of Your Needs - is it best for me?
Step 2 - Assess Property Characteristics - is it any good?
Step 3 - Negotiate Price - how much?
We only show the Property Characteristics (Step 2) score for public display on this website and only on a few select homes - our clients can have the rating of any home.
Once a rating is completed a score out of 1000 is calculated and this allows you the user to:
- compare ALL properties against each other
- compare the properties you are looking at against each other.
- know what most other buyers think of your property
- know the long term growth potential of each property
- know whether the targeted property is any good or not.
- know whether or not it is any good for your needs.
Our clients have the benefit of the three step scoring process on each property. We only select a small amount of properties to display on our website, but we in fact have a large database of rated properties available to clients.
The total maximum James Home Rating is out of 1000
What is the benefit of a Property Characteristics score?
It lessens the chance of you buying an overall poor property with one dominating good feature or missing a good property which only has minor negative features.
  800-1000 - Exceptional home
  700-800 - Above average home
  600-700 - Good average home
  500-600 - Home has issues but may be OK
- 0-500 - Poor home which we do not feature on the website
Developed over many years with an Australian Innovation Patent and International Patents pending, it is now being used by thousands of residential homebuyers. All ratings are completely objective - we receive no money from the sellers or selling agents and ratings are only carried out by licensed and fully trained James Buyer Advocates or James Buyer Architects.
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Explanations & Disclaimers
Bought* - Indicates property has been bought. We are a buyer rating company and a buyer advocate company only, and we use the word bought instead of sold to give the website a buyer flavour. We do not buy all the properties listed on this website, therefore we often rely on an advertised price or the selling agent to indicate the bought price and occasionally the result may be inaccurate.