Sell Your Commercial Property Without an Agent and Save

Commercial property is where agent fees hurt the most. Commissions on commercial sales are negotiated case by case, but between the commission itself and the marketing budget agents typically ask you to fund up front, the total cost of selling through an agency very commonly runs into the tens of thousands of dollars — money that comes straight off your return.

Here’s the part many owners don’t realise: you don’t need an agent to get your property in front of commercial buyers.

Where commercial buyers actually look

Serious commercial buyers and investors search two portals: realcommercial.com.au and commercialrealestate.com.au. An agent’s main practical contribution to your campaign is putting your listing on those portals — because private owners can’t list there directly. Only licensed agencies can.

For Sale For Lease is a licensed real estate agency, and that’s exactly what we do: we publish your listing on realcommercial.com.au and commercialrealestate.com.au for a once-off $795 until sold. Every enquiry goes directly to you. When it sells, you pay no commission — nothing.

You know your property better than any agent

Nobody knows your building, your tenants, your outgoings and your numbers like you do. Commercial buyers ask detailed questions about lease terms, yields and zoning — questions owners are usually better equipped to answer than a listing agent juggling thirty campaigns. Selling privately doesn’t mean selling amateurishly; it means removing the middleman from a conversation you were always going to lead anyway.

What the private process looks like

1. Prepare your information. Lease documents, outgoings, land size, zoning, permitted uses and quality photos.
2. List once, stay listed. Our commercial sale package keeps your property live until it sells — no monthly re-listing fees.
3. Field enquiries directly. Buyers contact you; you negotiate on your own terms and timeline.
4. Engage your solicitor for contracts, exactly as you would in an agent-led sale.

We help owners in every state — see our state guides for VIC, NSW, QLD, WA and SA — and if you’re leasing rather than selling, the same logic applies to our commercial leasing package.

Ready to run the numbers on your own sale? Read our full guide to selling commercial property privately, or call us 7 days on 1300 622 300.