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Top End property wasn’t making the news last week, it won’t be this week and it won’t be next. With such a volatile and weird stockmarket, at least in public the top end has taken one serious dose of mogadon. Up here where the millions play, auctions are starting to look so very last century. […]

It was like the fathers’ room in a maternity hospital – pre-ultrasound. No-one quite sure what they were about to be presented with and shrouds of mystery and concern hovering over the entire process. Another bloodbath on the stock exchange. Would it lead to a vendors’ nightmare? Would we, as happened in GFC1, simply look the

Could this be the spring with no zing? For the first time since the 80s there are signs that this spring market … won’t. No market to be seen. Gone. Kaput. Especially at the top. When many in the media and even some agents are suggesting that the sky has fallen in, you know things

Art lovers, this is a week made for you. Much staring into space, looking for elusive meaning. Finding gems where others see only confusions of colour. Hot on the tail of Fred Williams, we took off for 2 Hyde Hill Road, Harkaway. in Williams, the aware mind is struck by its rural truth, right down

The top end continues to work in mysterious ways. A very expensive, very silent submarine. Secrets rule. We’d tell you but they’d have to kill us and we’re too busy to go to that funeral. And then a periscope pops up. 21,000 square feet of 12 Albany Road sells – not overnight, it took four weeks

Where did everybody go? Why has the top end … disappeared? And who’s to blame? Nobody’s short on theories: It’s the carbon tax, it’s the Oz Dollar, it’s the long weekend (really?), it’s school holidays, the weather, the footy, the… Our turn: At the top end it’s because there’s next to nothing for sale for

Those seeking the real action at the top end should take a look at 250 William Street, Melbourne. Yes. The County Court. It’s fun for all the family as QCs take aim at when an offer is or is not an offer and whether an agent had a real counter-offer or was crossing his fingers

This much you know: the market is soft, its top end especially so. Many listings, few must-haves. And plenty of those less than exceptional houses which a year ago would have had crowds queuing today can’t attract a stray cat – any bets on how long it will be before the offers of free coffee

What happened at the top end over the weekend? Not enough to waste your time. There’s action behind closed doors but that, at least for the time being, is where it must remain. David Morrell Something to say? Add your comment below.   Soft is pundits’ new hard-sell “They need the turnover,” says buyer advocate

What’s the latest? What’s really happening? Depends on who’s doing the reporting. Any historian in years hence, trying to make sense of what happened in this real estate market (OK, an unlikely field for any historian, but stranger things, etc…), will spend considerable time rolling on the floor laughing at all the self-interested opinion found