Sunday Blog - Expert property investment insights

Dads… every professional bidder’s nightmare, and often a Buyer’s Agent’s challenge when it comes to overriding their best-intended (bad) advice. A father’s support always comes from a good place, but often it can threaten an inexperienced buyer’s chances of success. We see constant examples of this in our travels and it is one of the…

Two years ago I bid on a majestic block of land in Portarlington for a lovely client who was away on the day of the auction. I recall a huge crowd, flags flying in the strong breeze and a long line of onlookers queuing for their free bite at the Lion’s club sausage sizzle trailer.…

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…

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…

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…

Our crazy ol’ market has indeed copped some changes in a short period of time. It’s hard to believe the sales that we were involved in from February to mid-May now that we’ve had two solid weekends of tough auction competition, fast-paced and competitive negotiations, and extraordinarily well-attended open for inspections. What do people point…

It’s never a dull day on a Saturday for us, but this weekend was life in technicolour for both of us. With a renewed level of energy and optimism, it was no surprise for Amy and I to see the auction clearance rate was immediately into the mid-sixties for Melbourne when the 7pm notification came…

In the wake of the election shock result, APRA’s recommendation to ease lender’s servicing buffers, and talk of further incentives for First Home Buyers, it should come as little shock to those watching Melbourne’s property market that a fresh sense of optimism now circles our market. The past two months in particular have been plagued…

Amidst the crazy election furor, annoying political ads and badly-thought-out vote grabs, one of the latest knee-jerk ideas of our politicians is to assist a limited number of eligible first home buyers into the market with a handy additional 15% deposit guarantee. What does this mean for buyers? It means that those who haven’t saved…

We use the term “A-Grade” a lot, but what does this really mean, and how do we distinguish between A-Grade and other grades? In this Buyer’s Market, it’s easy to buy a bargain property. The critical element that buyers need to focus on now relates to the quality of the property. Anyone can buy a…

Just this week a fabulous industry colleague (and friend) tagged me in his thought-provoking post and asked me to comment on this. And indeed I could. I take advantage of this phenomenon often. Tim’s article he handpicked for his post (attached here), explains that the laws of supply and demand don’t always apply to an…

In this Buyer’s Market climate, our auction clearances are lower, days on market are extended, vendors are often applying discounts to their asking price, and it’s not uncommon for agents to lose their listings to opposition agents. It’s a different dynamic in contrast to the heady days of 2017. Back in the days of Seller’s…