Estates Brief is a research service for people with significant assets who want to understand — clearly and independently — how property ownership, residency, taxes, and wealth transfer actually work across borders.
Most people who could bridge that gap — brokers, agents, developers — earn when you transact. So their version of “the facts” tends to stop where the inconvenient parts begin. We don’t transact. Our only product is the brief.
“I was looking at a property in Melbourne. My agent quoted one number, my bank quoted another. Neither mentioned the FIRB approval requirement or the foreign buyer surcharge until after I’d already made an offer.”
No property sales, no referral arrangements, no paid placements. We sell research — that’s the whole model.
Government sites. Official gazettes. Tax authority records. If we state a figure, you can click through and verify it yourself. We expect you to.
Policy documents can run hundreds of pages. We read them so you don’t have to — and give you exactly what you need to have an informed conversation.
FIRB fees, state surcharges, and stamp duty tiers — the full picture before you make an offer, not after.
FIRB fees, state surcharges, and stamp duty tiers — the full picture before you make an offer, not after.
FIRB fees, state surcharges, and stamp duty tiers — the full picture before you make an offer, not after.
FIRB fees, state surcharges, and stamp duty tiers — the full picture before you make an offer, not after.
FIRB fees, state surcharges, and stamp duty tiers — the full picture before you make an offer, not after.
FIRB fees, state surcharges, and stamp duty tiers — the full picture before you make an offer, not after.
Whether you’re buying abroad, planning a second residency, protecting what you’ve built, or thinking about what happens to it after you — the information you need lives in one of these four places.
Real yield data, price cycles, and vacancy rates across the markets people are seriously considering. Not a brochure. Not a headline. The numbers, in context.
Stamp duties, foreign buyer surcharges, transfer taxes, annual holding costs. Most buyers discover these mid-transaction. We put them upfront, in full.
The real requirements behind programmes like MM2H and the Dubai Golden Visa — deposit thresholds, property rules, processing timelines — without the migration agent framing.
Cross-border ownership structures, tax residency rules, inheritance law. What works cleanly in one jurisdiction can create real problems in another. We show you where the edges are.
Imagine being able to ask “what does it actually cost a Singaporean to buy a second property in Tokyo?” at midnight — and getting a proper, sourced answer in under a minute.
That’s Esta. She’s built on the same research library that powers our briefs. You ask in plain English or Bahasa Indonesia. She finds the answer, tells you exactly where it came from, and moves on. No pitch. No agenda. No favourite city.
The research library and Esta are both in their final stages. Leave your email below — we’ll send you one message when early access opens. Nothing else. No newsletter, no marketing.
We work with developers, family offices, and advisers who want clients to arrive informed — people who already understand the landscape before the meeting starts. We bring the research. You bring the expertise.
