Institutional thinking for everyday investors.

Meet the founder

A valuer who saw the same mistake again and again.

Melvyn spent more than a decade as a property valuer, including five years with JLL, developing a deep understanding of what drives property value, how markets behave and how sophisticated investors assess risk.

His valuation work spanned family homes and investment properties through to commercial real estate, residential developments, hotels and operating businesses. It gave him a perspective few residential buyers have: assessing property through the lens of banks, developers and institutional investors, and looking beyond the asking price to its underlying value, risks and long-term potential.

But he kept noticing the same problem. Everyday investors were struggling to build meaningful portfolios, not because they lacked ambition or capital, but because their first purchases were often poorly selected, incorrectly structured or financed in ways that held them back. Too often, the property that was meant to create financial freedom became the thing holding them back.

He's been on the other side of it too. Melvyn built his own $4 million property portfolio on a PAYG income, and made his share of mistakes along the way. Those lessons are now built into how he buys for clients, so they can avoid the same costly errors and keep their portfolio moving forward.

That insight led Melvyn to start LPI Buyers Agency.