Archive for 2019
Property News Update – The city of the future + A royal baby’s bedroom + When a bidder bolts and more!
‘Property Planner, Buyer & Professor’ – The lifestyle vs Investment conundrum (Ep. 5)
These Brunswick townhouses next door to each other are for sale with a $119,000 price difference
Fake property stats
Our market has bounced back, but when will the vendors catch on?
The property pundits have already put up their Saturday night reports, several with similar angles about the strength of our auction clearance rates, and more specifically, the fact that it hasn’t been this strong since 2017. Surely for anyone who has paid the slightest bit of attention to the doom and gloom stories about our…
Read More‘Property Planner, Buyer & Professor’ – How to develop your own Property Plan – start with the end in mind! (Ep. 4)
How do you know the Agent isn’t bluffing?
This is a very fair question for buyers to ask. They don’t always have the benefit of a long-standing professional relationship, or acquired trust. And they don’t always know the questions to ask or the ways to handle this doubting concept when the question arises. Buyers often ask us this question when they are faced…
Read MoreWhy is this ratio *such* a valuable measure for capital growth prospects?
Land to Asset Ratio is not a plentiful term in our industry, but it should be. It literally means ‘the ratio of the land content to the total asset value.’ The term has a few variants, but they all refer to the value of the land when benchmarked against the value of any dwelling plus improvements on this…
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