Archive for 2015
Cate is interviewed about Buying Below Market Value
The Problem with Buying a Bargain – Amy Mylius, Smart Property
Second time lucky!…. a Geelong West Jewell
Our regional city brief this month was in Geelong – a changing, exciting, waterside city just 50 minutes from Melbourne. Our lovely clients are thinking forward to where they are going to live and work – and came to us to help them make their wish a reality. Geelong never gets shrugged off by us.…
Read MoreWhy Some Properties Don’t Pass the Valuation Test – Cate writes for Smart Property
REA – Property Predictions That Never Came True
Winter Blues…. Spring is Just Around the Corner
On Saturday we attended an auction for two fabulous repeat clients. Their portfolio acquisition plan this time around was to identify a sub-$600K house which could respond to rejuvenation now, and could potentially be sub-dividable in future. No easy feat, but Northern middle-to-outer-ring Watsonia was identified as a possible locality to target. …
Read MoreThe Sun Wasn’t Shining on me in Sunshine on Saturday…
We recently decided to pursue a property in arguably one of Sunshine’s best streets. Not only was the property in a great street, but was a stand-out, period property. This gorgeous, three bedroom, period Californian Bungalow stole hearts, but not ours. We remained pragmatic, because after all, this asset had to do just one thing;…
Read MoreThe importance of agent relationships – an off market apartment in Brunswick
We recently had the privilege of helping a client from Sydney buy his second property (this year!), and this time our brief was to find an apartment which he could purchase in his self managed super fund (SMSF). SMSF properties are a bit trickier than the average investment purchase, and the first one we’d found…
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