Posts by Cate Bakos

What do you do when you are set to bid at auction on Saturday, but find a house on Tuesday which catches your interest? Easy – you just try your luck at auction and keep the house as your Plan B. But what do you do if the house has competing buyers who are also…

In our Seller’s market, and particularly over the winter months where supplies of properties for sale are low, many buyers come to me requesting that I help them secure an auction property before the auction. But it’s not always a good idea to pounce forward with an offer. There needs to be a sequence of good reasons…

When a brief requires the ‘out of pocket’ monthly costs to be close to zero for an investor, the implication is that they will need to consider a property which carries some downside. It could either a risky investment, a tough studio apartment or …. a regional investment. We don’t endorse risky strategies, mining towns, tiny…