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Ryan Coppick
Licensed Real Estate Agent (QLD), licence 4961592
Founder, Coppick Property Advisory
Available same day for phone or email comment, including outside business hours. Based at Charters Towers, North Queensland. Happy to be recorded.
What I can speak to.
With figures rather than opinion. If it is outside this, I will say so rather than guess.
Purchase costs and transfer duty
Exact figures for every state, checked against the issuing revenue office. Most buyers overestimate the cash required by tens of thousands, and that miscalculation delays purchases by years.
Why “regional Queensland” is a misleading category
Townsville runs on hospitals and defence. Charters Towers, 134km inland, runs on education, aged care and local government. Applying one set of assumptions to both is the most common mistake interstate buyers make.
The Gold Coast market
Grew up there — Southport, Ashmore, then Mudgeeraba. Can speak to body corporate exposure, off-the-plan risk, and why suburb reputation is a poor guide to suburb performance.
What a buyers agent actually does, including when you do not need one
Willing to say on the record that many buyers should not use one, and to explain the conflict of interest in percentage-based fees — including in my own industry.
Buyer-side representation and commissions
Coppick accepts no commission or referral fee from sellers, developers, agents or brokers, in either direction. That is unusual enough to be the story in itself.
Figures you can quote.
Every one checked against the issuing authority in August 2026. Use them with or without attribution to me — but please cite the source column, because that is the part that makes them worth publishing.
| Fact | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Queensland transfer duty on a $600,000 purchase | $20,025 | Queensland Revenue Office |
| Queensland transfer duty on an $850,000 investment | $31,275 | QRO published example |
| NSW transfer duty on a $600,000 purchase | $21,187 | Revenue NSW, 2026–27 |
| Victorian land transfer duty on a $600,000 purchase | $31,070 | State Revenue Office Victoria |
| Total cash for a $600,000 QLD investment, 20% deposit | about $143,500 | Deposit $120,000 + duty $20,025 + ~$3,500 costs |
| WA first home buyers pay no duty up to | $600,000 | RevenueWA, from 7 May 2026 |
| Gold Coast population | 625,087 | ABS Census 2021 |
| Townsville population | 192,768 | ABS Census 2021 |
| Townsville’s two largest employer sectors | Hospitals 6.6%, Defence 5.6% | ABS Census 2021 |
| Charters Towers population | 8,040 | ABS Census 2021 |
One caution: New South Wales re-indexes its transfer duty thresholds every 1 July. Any NSW figure published before the current financial year is wrong. If you are filing after 1 July, ring me and I will confirm the current number.
Biography, three lengths.
Take whichever fits. No need to check them with me first.
Ryan Coppick, Licensed Real Estate Agent and founder of Coppick Property Advisory, a Queensland buyers agency that works buyer-side only and takes no commissions from sellers or developers.
Ryan Coppick is a Licensed Real Estate Agent in Queensland (licence 4961592) and the founder of Coppick Property Advisory, a buyers agency based at Charters Towers and working across the Gold Coast, South East Queensland and North Queensland. The agency represents buyers only and accepts no commissions or referral fees from sellers, developers, agents or brokers.
Ryan Coppick is a Licensed Real Estate Agent in Queensland (licence 4961592) and the founder of Coppick Property Advisory.
He grew up on the Gold Coast — Southport and Ashmore, then Mudgeeraba — and later worked across South East Queensland in the construction industry, in Logan, Ipswich, Brisbane and Toowoomba. He is now based at Charters Towers in North Queensland and works both regions.
Coppick Property Advisory represents buyers only. It accepts no commission, kickback or referral fee from sellers, developers, agents or brokers, in either direction, and charges flat fees agreed in writing before any work begins rather than a percentage of the purchase price.
The agency publishes its own verified transfer duty rate tables for Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania, each checked against the issuing revenue office and dated.
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The position, stated plainly.
So you can characterise it accurately: Coppick Property Advisory represents buyers only. It does not act for sellers or developers, does not sell property, and accepts no commission, kickback or referral fee from any party in either direction. Fees are flat — $899 for a strategy session, $11,500 for a full engagement — agreed in writing before work begins, and they do not change with the purchase price.
That last detail is the one worth understanding. An agent paid a percentage of what you pay is paid more when you pay more. I am willing to say on the record that many buyers do not need a buyers agent at all.
Coppick Property Advisory · ABN 88 561 718 761 · QLD Real Estate Licence 4961592 · AUSTRAC reporting entity 215194026.