Every Sunday Cate shares a recent adventure or interesting industry observation.

Back in April I had the pleasure of receiving a phone call from a prospective client. He and his fiancee had been searching for months for a suitably sized, long term family home in West Footscray and surrounds. Their search had been drawn-out and painful in part; from being pipped at auction to falling prey… Read more »

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 more »

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 more »

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 more »

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… Read more »

Only two weeks ago, Amy and I attended an auction in Ascot Vale’s “The Parade” – an enviable address with an easy walk on offer to Union Road’s cafes and the local rail station. Keen buyers challenged us beyond our budget but an advocate from the Eastern Suburbs lurked at the back and slammed a… Read more »

We had the pleasure of helping a very special family find their new home in Frankston South; the gateway to the Mornington Peninsula bound by the beautiful bay, the hustle and bustle of busy downtown Frankston, and the leafy treetops of sleepy Mount Eliza. This was no ordinary assignment… it had complexity. In this moving… Read more »

We had the pleasure of working with a lovely (but pragmatic) client recently. She was looking for her ‘Camberwell’ home and had set her sights on this gorgeous Victorian era three bedroom property. We conducted our comparable sales analysis and put together a ‘likely selling range’ projection for our client based on other single fronted… Read more »

Amy and I had an exciting brief with two fantastic investor clients. The challenge for us all was based on their possible future plans…. they were prepared to do some hard work, didn’t mind travelling long distances each weekend with young children in tow, and were sensible about every aspect of the strategy. They hoped… Read more »

Late last year a fabulous client of ours was the successful purchaser of this 1970’s townhouse in Yarraville. Situated near Seddon station, equi-distant between Yarraville village and Seddon’s cafe strip, and offering a great floorplan – this townhouse had a lot to offer. What it lacked however was modern appeal. We knew our client would find a… Read more »