Preparation
Complimentary, fully vetted trade advice and trade resources across the 6 critical preparation elements… every dollar spent here usually returns 2 to 3x in the final sale price.
The 8 Days To Sell System™
Performance… guaranteed speed, offers and/or buyer interest.
Presentation… guaranteed quality, quantity and lowest costs.
Brisbane’s only fully-integrated staging, styling and selling system … engineered to improve buyer competition and negotiation control.
✓ No cost. No obligation. *Conditions apply to both guarantees.
Our unique guarantees
The performance guarantee
Our average is 8 days. If your home hasn’t generated higher buyer interest and/or one or more offers at or above your agreed market value and also hasn’t sold within the first 30 days of the campaign, you only pay half of our commission rate.
Terms and conditions apply.
The presentation guarantee
Our net final cost is guaranteed to be lower than any equivalent styling service. If one can beat it, your staging and styling are free.
Terms and conditions apply.
Included, not optional
Directed by the most awarded property stylists in Queensland and integrated into every campaign as standard. Staging, styling and marketing costs are all deferred to settlement, and the deferral fee is rebated in full from our commission… so a better presented home costs you nothing upfront.*
The secret sauce
We allocate just 1 furniture and listing installation per week… the opposite of the industry’s “as many listings as possible” approach. It is what lets us put the best prepared, most attractively presented and best promoted home into your marketplace. Installs are booked months ahead, so start the conversation well before you are ready to list.
*Conditions apply.
How it works
Luke Russell, General Manager and Lead Agent of Cape Cod Residential, explains the 8 Days To Sell System™
Our track record
A record no other agent in Brisbane has matched… 2 to 4x more buyer interest, consistent above-market prices, and 9 suburb records in a row.
8 days
Average time on market across 12 years and 85+ suburbs
5 days
Average over the last 5 years across 50+ suburbs
2 to 4x
More buyer enquiry than local market averages
12
HIA QLD Property Styling Awards over the past 10 years
Almost every home we sell achieves a price higher than its market value… In 2025/2026 we sold 9 consecutive properties, for 9 suburb records, in 9 different suburbs, with no local office in any of them, in an average of just 5 days on market.
Emphatic evidence that it’s the process, not an agent’s postcode, that leaves you with more in your hand, in a shorter space of time.
Attracts more buyers
Presentation and promotion working as 1 system… 2 to 4x more buyer interest than comparable local listings, campaign after campaign.
4 recent campaigns, 4 different homes… every one well above the industry-average click-through rate, every one filling a launch with qualified buyers.
Accelerates market feedback
Every buyer transacts through our online offer management system… more offers arrive, sooner, and the results land consistently above market. Kedron and Calamvale, both suburb records, both sold well above the average price buyers told us they’d pay.
2 recent record sales… 18 registered buyers, 12 active offers, and a combined $251,667 above the average prices buyers told us they’d pay. Source: Propps Offer Management.
The 5 P’s of faster and higher sales
Most agents photograph what exists and hope. The 8 Days To Sell System™ transforms your home first, then transforms the demand for it.
Complimentary, fully vetted trade advice and trade resources across the 6 critical preparation elements… every dollar spent here usually returns 2 to 3x in the final sale price.
Fully integrated, multi-award-winning staging and styling… guaranteed lowest cost of any equivalent service, with zero upfront cashflow. Your home becomes a scroll-stopping product.
Brisbane’s best photography, premium realestate.com.au and Domain advertising, and hyper-effective social and AI marketing… 2 to 4x more buyer interest than comparable local listings, with no upfront cashflow.
A realistic price zone to start, then dynamic guidance that moves with market interest and offers… a race to the top, never a race to the bottom, and never an anchor or ceiling on your result.
Buyer urgency, competition and value optimally managed through our hybrid online offer system… exposing not just your market value but your true above-market value, and capturing your ideal buyer sooner.
Our client reviews
“Cape Cod Residential’s process is the greatest innovation in real estate sales in the last 10 years.”
★★★★★E.M. … seller of 8 Brisbane properties (Sherwood, New Farm, Enoggera and Ashgrove)“Best agents in Brisbane… cannot fault their process!”
★★★★★Steve and Amelia … Carina“We have never come across another agent like her.”
★★★★★Dean and Jen … CarindaleRecent case studies
Our published study
Published before the boom… so the results cannot be dismissed as a hot-market artefact.
The Impact of High-Calibre Property Styling on Residential Property Sales
144 consecutive Cape Cod Residential sales across 62 Greater Brisbane suburbs, from $375,000 to $3,500,000, measured against their local markets.
9 days
Median time on market, 5 to 6x faster than the Brisbane market (average 14 days)
85%
Of homes sold above market value
$69,017
Average premium above market value, or 7.3%
100%
Of the 144 sales drew superior buyer interest to their local area
Study period: 2015 to 2020. These are the study’s own historical figures and are reported as such … they are separate from our current-form results elsewhere on this page.
Our awards
13 major property styling awards over the past 10 years. No other agency in Brisbane is close.
The 13th … and the international one
12 HIA QLD Property Styling Awards, won consecutively over the past 10 years, plus 1 International Home Stager of the Year title (Vacant) at RESA, the Real Estate Staging Association of North America and Canada… the world’s largest home staging awards. 13 in total.
Who is our system made for?
Homes sell fast when buyers can decide fast. That’s why the system works for both sides… and why 8 days is just our average.
For buyers
Buyers see the home’s true integrity… the functionality, scale and utility of every space, presented in its best light. They can decide immediately: this is the home, or it isn’t.
For sellers
The 8 Days To Sell System™ attracts more buyers, accelerates market feedback and amplifies competition better and faster than anything else. Every buyer gets the information they need to compete at their best… which is exactly what you want your buyer pool doing.
Who you’ll be working with
Founder and General Manager
Licensed agent with a background in finance and financial planning. Luke leads the buyer management side of the system… marketing, price guidance and negotiation… so every campaign converts interest into competition, and competition into your result.
Principal and Creative Director
The presentation director behind 12 HIA QLD Property Styling Awards and an International Home Stager of the Year title (USA). Anne-Maree leads the Phase Change on every home… so your property meets the market in a state no local competitor can match.
A free gift … how to prepare your home before you list
Preparation is the first of the 5 P’s, and the one most sellers get wrong… spending where buyers never look, and skipping what quietly costs them tens of thousands.
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No imagination required.
Buyers see the home’s true integrity … the functionality, scale and utility of every space, presented in its best light. They can decide immediately: this is the home, or it isn’t.
That sounds like a courtesy to the buyer. It is not. A buyer who has to imagine a room working is a buyer who goes home to think about it, and most of them talk themselves out of it somewhere between your driveway and theirs.
It is also why we never use virtual staging. It asks a buyer to trust a picture that does not match the room they are standing in, and the moment they notice, they stop trusting everything else in the campaign.
Homes sell fast when buyers can decide fast. That is why 8 days is just our average.
Confident buyers compete harder.
The 8 Days To Sell System attracts more buyers, accelerates market feedback and amplifies competition better and faster than anything else. Every buyer gets the information they need to compete at their best … which is exactly what you want your buyer pool doing.
A hesitant buyer negotiates. A confident buyer competes. The gap between those 2 behaviours is the gap between your Fair Market Value and your Above-Market Value.
That is the 3 A’s doing their work … Attract more buyers, Accelerate market feedback, Amplify competition. Historically we draw 2 to 4 times more buyer interest than comparable local listings, and that is the whole mechanism behind both the speed and the price.
When you create a beautiful product, market it thoroughly to every active buyer, and host an open home that creates a genuinely emotional and competitive environment, you get the most honest survey of the market’s opinion of your home that exists.
We call it the Race To The Top. It finds your real market value as fast as possible, then manages the competition upwards without placing any limit on the final price.
These are the 5 P’s we never shortcut…
Complimentary, fully vetted trade advice and trade resources across the 6 critical preparation elements. Every dollar spent here usually returns 2 to 3 times in the final sale price.
Fully integrated, multi-award-winning staging and styling, guaranteed to be the lowest cost of any equivalent service, with nothing to pay upfront. We never use emotion killers like virtual staging.
Brisbane’s best photography, premium realestate.com.au and Domain advertising, and hyper-effective social and AI marketing … 2 to 4 times more buyer interest than comparable local listings.
A realistic price zone to start, then guidance that moves with market interest and offers. A race to the top, never a race to the bottom, and never an anchor or a ceiling on your result.
Buyer urgency, competition and value managed through our hybrid online offer system … exposing not just your market value but your true above-market value, and capturing your ideal buyer sooner.
Two things, both in writing, both before you appoint us. No other agency in Brisbane guarantees either one.
The full conditions are set out in the questions that follow, and are given to you in writing before appointment. We would rather you read them than take our word for it.
You pay half our commission. That is the guarantee, and it is the reason we will not take a listing we do not believe the system can sell.
The discount applies where your home has not sold within the first 30 days of the sales campaign. One further condition must also be met over those same 30 days: buyer interest has not been higher than comparable local buyer interest (verified through realestate.com.au and our social advertising data), or no offer at or above the agreed appraised market value of your home has been received. Either one is enough.
In other words, we carry the risk of the campaign underperforming. Most agencies ask you to carry all of it.
Three components, quoted as one package: marketing, staging and commission.
It is a low-cost, high-performance marketing and staging package built around your specific home. Once we have audited the property and know exactly what it needs, we quote a package whose net final cost is always lower than an equivalent service … and we guarantee that in writing, in your Home Staging Programme.
Nothing is payable until settlement.
Less than any equivalent service, or it is free.
The comparison is made on our net final cost … the figure after every staging and styling fee rebate applied at settlement … exactly as set out in your written Home Staging Programme. If an equivalent service can beat that net cost, your staging and styling are free, fully rebated from our commission.
That is the presentation guarantee, and it exists because we own the inventory and run the styling in-house. We are not marking up a third-party stylist.
At settlement. Nothing before it.
Staging, styling and marketing costs are all deferred to settlement, and the deferral fee is rebated in full from our commission. A better presented home costs you nothing upfront and nothing extra.
Most sellers are asked to fund a campaign before they have any evidence it will work. We think that is the wrong way round.
That depends on the home inspection. If your home needs rejuvenating, it is not uncommon to spend between 3% and 5% of its value on the items that decide how it feels and how it functions to a buyer.
Anything you spend there will either lift the value of your home by more than you spent, or stop you losing a far larger amount … which is what usually happens when the critical items are left alone.
The 6 major areas of rejuvenation…
Presentation, then process. In that order.
Our published home staging study details how high-calibre property styling consistently lifts the value of almost any home. Across 144 consecutive sales, 85% sold above market value at an average premium of $69,017.
We provide no-obligation preparation and presentation advice before listing, on top of the award-winning styling that is already included. But presentation is only the engine. It is the process an agent runs afterwards that decides whether you sell at market value or above it.
Yes. Every property needs staging and styling, and it is already part of what you are buying.
We have won 12 HIA QLD Property Styling Awards over the past 10 years, plus the International Home Stager of the Year title at RESA in 2020 … 13 major awards in total. No other agency in Brisbane is close.
Property styling is the single largest lever on the perceived value of your home. It sells the dream, and it shows buyers exactly how the property can feel and function. Buyers who do not have to imagine can decide immediately.
Because it is the only way the rest of this holds together.
We allocate 1 furniture and listing installation per week … the opposite of the industry’s ‘as many listings as possible’ approach. It is what lets us put the best prepared, most attractively presented and best promoted home into your marketplace, every single week.
Installs are booked months ahead. Start the conversation well before you are ready to list.
We do, but keep it in proportion: roughly 95% of buyers come from 1 to 2 suburbs away from your home.
We use every major portal, current AI-assisted online marketing, and one of the largest genuine social followings of any agent in Brisbane … approximately 40,000 warm, real followers across our Instagram and Facebook accounts.
We do not spend your money on marketing that looks impressive and does nothing. We only use what we can measure.
Generally a minimum of 4 weeks to prepare the marketing and staging … furniture selections, booking external suppliers, and allocating an installation date.
If your home needs rejuvenation first, the lead time is longer and depends on the trades and the work involved. This is the part sellers underestimate most often.
For a home like yours, in your location, we would expect a sale inside the first 7 to 14 days.
Our 12-year average is 8 days. Over the last 5 years it is 5 days. The guarantee is written at 30 because that is where we are prepared to put our own money, not because that is what we expect.
No. We start every campaign with a FOR SALE price. A price either places an anchor under your result or a ceiling over it.
If you want to control the price outcome, you cannot open with a ‘price guess’ built from theoretical comparable sales. Setting an asking price is the high-risk option, not the safe one.
Un-priced homes do not deter enquiry when the home is well presented and properly marketed. Agents who believe you need an advertised price to attract buyers have little experience with high-calibre homes. We have historically had more attendance at our first open homes than most agents we know, and we have never started a campaign with an asking price.
We do give every buyer price guidance when they enquire. There are specific reasons for that, and we are happy to walk you through them.
Every portal and every appraisal gives you 1 number. Your home has 2, and the gap between them is the entire reason to be selective about who sells it.
FMV is your Fair Market Value … what the evidence supports today, roughly what an ordinary campaign reaches. AMV is your Above-Market Value … what a buyer pays when they are competing rather than negotiating alone.
That is what the formula 5P = 3A describes. The 5 P’s drive the 3 A’s … Attract more buyers, Accelerate market feedback, Amplify competition … and the 3 A’s are what expose both of them. Almost every home we sell finishes above its market value.
Buyers feel the impact of a competitive environment whether the competition is real or merely perceived. That is what lowers both the time risk and the financial risk of your sale.
Not a public auction. Auctions carry a high time risk and a high financial risk, and there are safer ways to reach the same result or better. Traditional private treaty has its own problems.
Three reasons we never use public auction…
Every conditional buyer is excluded from the contest before it starts, which is the opposite of what you want in the room.
There is very little gap between the highest and second-highest bid at the end. A non-transparent process routinely opens a large gap between the two.
Everybody in the room can see exactly where they stand, so nobody has to reach. That is a buyer’s advantage, not yours.
We use a hybrid … the best of private treaty and the best of auction. It delivers consistently whether there is 1 outlier emotional buyer or 20. An auction with 1 emotional bidder is dead in the water.
Our online offer management system sits underneath it, so we can be as transparent or as non-transparent as the campaign requires. A public auction gives that control away permanently.
We have led the Brisbane market on this measure for 12 consecutive years.
12-year average across 85+ suburbs
Average over the last 5 years, across 50+ suburbs
Consecutive suburb records, in 9 different suburbs
Fastest of any established agent in Greater Brisbane
Average days on market is the most useful performance metric available, and the only one that shows whether an agent performs consistently.
Volume tells you nothing. An agent who lists 200 homes and sells 100 looks busy, but that is a 50% failure rate, and it says nothing at all about price.
When an agent sells consistently fast, it indicates they sell consistently high. Why? Because sellers do not accept early offers when the price is poor.
Historically 2 to 4 times more than local market averages, campaign after campaign.
That gap is the whole mechanism. More buyers means more competition, more competition means offers arrive sooner and land higher, and offers landing sooner is what produces an 8-day average.
Our 2 most recent record sales drew 18 registered buyers and 12 active offers between them, and finished a combined $251,667 above the average prices those buyers had told us they would pay.
A service and performance package no other agency in Brisbane offers, backed by 2 written guarantees.
We also know your area. We have secured above-market results near you and we are happy to take you through them line by line.
Your next step
An appraisal with Luke and Anne-Maree… your home, your suburb’s numbers, and exactly how the system would apply. No cost, no obligation.
No cost. No obligation.