The standard property investment checklist - median trend, yield, entry price, comparable growth - works well in established markets. Applied unchanged to land-release suburbs, it produces a picture that looks similar but behaves differently. The supply dynamic is not the same, and the investment calculation needs to reflect that.Land-relea… Read More
Most vendors spend more energy negotiating the the agent commission than they spend evaluating whether the agent can actually negotiate on their behalf.That instinct is understandable. Commission is the most visible cost of selling a house. Because it is expressed as a percentage of an unknown sale price, it often becomes the number vendors… Read More
Interstate buyers researching Adelaide for the first time rarely arrive without assumptions. The assumptions come from whichever market they know best - the Sydney investor cycles and clearance rate swings, the Melbourne inner suburb premium and density dynamic. Those assumptions are applied to Adelaide and produce a picture that is partially accur… Read More
Adelaide house prices are reported, compared, and debated as though the median were a precise instrument. It is not. The median measures what sold - not what properties are worth. Those two things only align when the mix of properties selling stays consistent, and in most suburbs it does not stay consistent for long.It rarely does.… Read More
Most vendors who invest in home staging think they are paying for their property to look beautiful. They are actually paying for something more specific - the removal of reasons buyers use to justify paying less.That distinction matters because it changes how staging should be evaluated. A beautifully presented property that still leaves bu… Read More