There are trends and there are exceptions. When the exceptions cease to be exceptional, that could be a new trend emerging or, like waves on a beach, it could quietly disappear into the sand. All of which is of casual interest to the casual observer but is in the you-bet-your-future category if you are buying […]
Here, there, everywhere you look there’s another pundit with the definitive view on what the market is up to/will do next/has done. Whatever. Here a boom, there all gloom and did you see the number of people (or the absence of people) bidding/attending inspections/putting their heads in their hands and deciding to go to the
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… the times they are a changin’. Along with all the other terms we import from the U.S., “gazundering” is a recent arrival – and it signals a market in turnaround. Gazumping occurs in rising markets – gazundering is its evil twin (OK, they’re both evil). The gazunderer makes an offer which, when accepted, is then
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Snap! Weekend auctioneer stares at feet. Embarrassment? 100 in the throng and not a murmer? Not a whiff of a bid? What‘s his next trick? Snap! Media – the recipients of the rivers of real estate advertising gold – now acknowledging that cracks are appearing in the market. Snap! More and more, the top end is