For Sydney property owners with a real decision in front of them

Your next property decision could be a 6-FIGURE MISTAKE.

Book Clovia's 30-minute property strategy review before you buy, build, develop, renovate, sell, or spend another dollar on advice.

A 30-minute strategy review, normally valued at $1,100. Open to only 5 qualified applicants this week.

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The reality

You're good at what you do. You've built a career on sharp calls made with information you trust and instincts you've earned.

Where it gets confusing

But property decisions work differently. The numbers don't add up in isolation. The advice often contradicts itself. The builder sees construction. The architect sees design. The agent sees resale. The broker sees borrowing capacity.

The real question

The real question is whether the whole decision makes sense, and whether the next step is still worth taking.

Before you spend another dollar, spend 30 minutes with Clovia.

Clovia is co-founder at OIC Property Group. She reviews your situation before the call, identifies where the real risk sits, and tells you whether OIC is the right team to help.

A 30-minute strategy review, normally valued at $1,100. Open to only 5 qualified applicants this week.

Any of this sound familiar?

If any of these sound like something you've thought this month, this call is for you.

"My project has already started, but something feels off. I'm scared to keep spending money in the wrong direction, and I don't know how to fix it."

"I'm planning to add value to a property I already own, and I need to know the numbers will hold up before I spend another dollar on design or construction."

"I've owned this property for years. I know I should be doing something with it. I just don't know what."

"I'm about to make an offer. I want to know the risks before I sign."

"I've found a site I like. On paper it works but I need someone who's actually developed in this market to tell me what it can become."

Is this for you?

This call is not for you if:

You want to casually explore "what Sydney property is doing right now"
You do not have a specific property, project, or decision in front of you
You are looking for free general advice rather than a read on your actual situation
You are not in a position to act on what you learn within the next 3-6 months

This call is for you if:

Your project has already started but something feels off, and you are unsure whether to continue, pause, or change direction
Before you spend more, you want an expert development read on whether the next step is worth taking
You have a real property in view, or a property you already own and are deciding what to do with
You are open to working with OIC if the fit is right

Property feels confusing when nobody is reading the whole decision.

You can speak to a builder, architect, broker, agent and accountant and still not know whether the decision makes sense.

Not because those people are bad at their jobs. Because each one is answering a different question. The builder sees construction. The architect sees design and approval. The broker sees borrowing capacity. The agent gives a market opinion.

But your real question is bigger:

Does my current strategy actually fit this property and the value I want to unlock?

If you keep working it out alone

You may be relying on separate opinions that were never tested together.

What can happen:

You bid at auction using a builder's number that was never right for the site.
You buy a property before the feasibility has been tested properly.
You spend money on drawings for a product the market does not want.
You get a DA that passes council but does not protect your resale value.
You accept advice from specialists who are each correct in isolation, but wrong when combined.
You keep moving because everyone sounds confident, even though nobody is accountable for the whole outcome.

You hope for success.

With Clovia's read

Clovia looks at your situation through the full development lens: site, constraints, opportunity, pricing, buyer and delivery risk.

What becomes clearer:

Whether the property is worth pursuing before you spend more.
Where the real risk sits, not just the obvious risk.
Whether the project is feasible once cost, resale value, and risk are considered.
Whether the design direction matches the end buyer.
Which specialist advice needs to be questioned or coordinated.
Whether OIC is the right team to help you take the next step.

You plan your success.

30 minutes. A whole-decision read before you spend more money.

We see these situations every week.

Here's what three of them actually look like from the inside, and what they cost.

$300K

The builder quote that was never right.

You bring a builder to the auction so you can "bid with confidence." The number feels safe. Then the job starts, and it turns out they don't actually specialise in your type of project. Every variation is another $20,000. By the time you break ground, you've lost $300,000 on a project that had thin margins to begin with.

$150K

The floorplan that was designed to pass council, not to sell.

Your architect is talented, your drawings are beautiful, and the project gets through council. But the person who will eventually walk through the front door, look at the layout, and decide whether to sign a contract? Nobody in the room designed for them. When the project hits the market, that gap shows up as a 5-8% discount on every offer that comes back. On a Sydney duplex that's $80,000-$150,000 off your sale price, money you can never recover once the drawings are locked in.

$400K

The family property where the real money was in the strategy, not the sale.

You own a property — held for years or passed down through family. The house no longer adds value, but the land does. An agent gives you a price, somewhere around $2M, and it feels like the logical next step.

Except the same land, developed properly, becomes a $5M end product. After costs, that's $2.2M in your pocket through a builder joint venture, or $2.4M if you take control of the project yourself. Same starting point but three possible outcomes. The difference comes down to knowing your options, choosing the right strategy, and having the right team to help you realise it.

Every one of these is a six-figure property decision being made without the full picture. This 30-minute conversation exists to make sure you're not making yours blind.

Every specialist sees their part. Who is putting the pieces together into a strategy?

Agents, architects, builders, brokers and accountants all have their own roles and professional scope. But a property project does not work simply because their advice sits side by side. Someone needs to connect the logic between them into one clear strategy.

That person often does not exist.

Who is checking whether the design makes commercial sense? Who is identifying conflicting advice between specialists and helping you make the right trade-offs? Who is confirming whether the final product fits the market you are targeting?

OIC sits between these disciplines. We read the design, feasibility, development risk and final market value together, so before you spend another dollar, you can see whether the decision is truly worth pursuing.

How It Works

The 30-minute conversation is a 1-on-1 call with Clovia that gives you a real read on your situation.

1

Tell us about your property in 2 minutes.

Fill out a short questionnaire about your property and your situation. This is what guides Clovia's preparation, and sets the difference between a generic chat and an informed conversation.

2

Lock in your time.

Once the questionnaire is submitted, you're taken to Clovia's calendar. Choose one of the open slots for the week.

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Clovia prepares for your call.

Before your call, Clovia reads your questionnaire and thinks through your situation the same way she would any OIC project: site, constraints, opportunity, pricing, the eventual buyer. She's prepared before she picks up the phone.

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30 minutes on the phone with Clovia.

You walk her through what you're facing in your own words, the decision in front of you, what's bothering you, what you're afraid to get wrong. She listens, then reflects back what she sees. If OIC is the right fit, she'll tell you exactly how: which service and what it involves. If it isn't, she'll tell you that too. You will never hear a number you did not ask for.

How Clovia thinks about your situation

Every property gets read against the same five lenses.

When Clovia looks at a property, she isn't just asking what could be built on it. She's asking five things:

Site

What is this site, really?

Constraints

What's going to constrain it?

Opportunity

Where is the actual opportunity?

Pricing

Does the pricing hold up?

Buyer

Who buys this at the end?

That's the lens she brings to the 30 minutes. It's why a short conversation can do real work, instead of the generic "general advice" most free calls deliver.

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A 30-minute property strategy call, normally valued at $1,100

Open to only 5 qualified applicants this week.

Answer a few short questions first. If your situation is suitable and a place is still available, you'll be taken to the booking page.

OIC co-founders Clovia Cai and Florian Hofmann

Meet the Co-Founders

The people behind the conversation.

Clovia reads a property's potential and the pathways it can take to create wealth. Florian makes sure the numbers behind those pathways hold up. Together, they built OIC to sit between design and ROI (return on investment), helping clients see which direction is truly worth pursuing before costly decisions are made.

Read Clovia's and Florian's stories +

How a Sydney property owner did everything right and almost built a house nobody would buy.

She took a builder to the auction, hired an architect, and spent a year getting DA approval. On paper, every step looked right. But the whole project had been pointing the wrong way from auction day, and she was about to pour another six figures into a house that wouldn't sell. Here's how we caught it.

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At first, her plan looked sensible.

She bought an older house in a good Sydney suburb, planning to renovate, extend, add value, and either hold or sell later. It was the kind of path many property owners are told to follow.

Before the auction, she brought a builder so she could get a construction estimate before bidding. After the purchase, she hired an architect, worked through the design, and spent a year getting the DA approved through council.

The real problem began on auction day.

The builder she relied on at the auction was experienced in knockdown rebuilds, not alterations and additions. That sounds like a small detail, but it matters. Alteration and addition projects carry different constraints, unknowns and hidden costs, and the number she was given did not properly account for them.

She bid based on that number and ended up overpaying by around $300,000. Worse, that loss was locked in before the first design drawing even existed. Then a full year of design and council time went into a DA, but nobody had properly tested the question that mattered most: Who is going to buy this house when it is finished?

Where the real problem was.

It was not until someone looked at the drawings through a builder-developer lens that the real issue was said out loud: Once this is built, it will be hard to sell. The issue was not that she had hired "bad" people. Her builder may have been good at knockdown rebuilds. Her architect could get the DA through council. But neither of them was responsible for one question: Will this house actually make money once it is built? That question had been sitting in the blind spot since auction day.

What we did next.

We did not start with the drawings. We started with the market. Who actually buys this type of property in this suburb? What kind of product are they willing to pay for? What kind of design would make them walk through the front door and turn away?

Once we had the answer, we did not start again from scratch. She had already spent a year getting DA approval, and construction was about to move forward. The real task was to correct the direction without wasting the approval work already done, disrupting the construction timeline, or adding unnecessary holding cost.

Using the existing DA, the planning constraints and the available modification pathway, we reworked the design so the project could move forward within a compliant approval strategy while keeping construction momentum wherever possible.

The goal was not simply to make the house look better. It was to pull the project back from a product the market would not pay for, into a direction that matched the target buyer and made the numbers work again.

We did not recover the first loss, but we stopped the second and larger one.

The $300,000 she overpaid at auction was gone. That loss was locked in the day she won the bid, and no design change was going to get it back. What we stopped was the second loss, and that one was going to be much bigger. She was about to pour the full build cost into a house the market wouldn't pay for. The house she is building now is one that matches the buyer, and the numbers actually work.

What she has now.

It's not just an adjusted design. It's a project that makes sense again on the numbers, a product repositioned around the real buyer, and a responsible team that can support the project through to a successful delivery.

She began seeing the real problem in one 30-minute conversation with Clovia. You can start there too.

Answer a few short questions first. If your situation is suitable and a place is still available, you'll be taken to the booking page.

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