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It is as quiet as it has been in 20 years. Even the 1990 blood bath had some transactions to make a noise about. We’re now in new territory for a lot of agents who have nothing but memories of endless listings. Explanations? They’re wherever you would like to look: the election, the sharemarket, the […]

Tis the season of polls, polls, and more polls. Even worms are being asked for their opinions. And for every question, you get to choose the answer you like. Jeremy Grantham pontificated on Oz and continued his stirring of our property market, suggesting that we’re at the height of a bubble and home price falls

Silence. Expensive silence. The top end has been out to lunch, on hols, nowhere to be found. Gone missing. Top end vendors, however, have been found looking over fences, in bushes, under carpets – wondering where their agents have gone. Amazing. You  spend $25-30,000 on a sales campaign and when that falls on its face

A big weekend of sport with Spain finally triumphing in the beautiful game, Cadel Evans donning the yellow jersey in Le Tour and Saint Nick back to lead St Kilda to glorious victory in September. Melbourne’s other winter sport – property watching – yielded little to get excited about. Real bidders and live bidding the

Even with the start of school holidays, Bayside activity continues; reduced auction numbers prompting its highest percentage clearance rate in many weeks, despite seriously winter weather. It is becoming more and more obvious that the recent slide in clearance rates across Melbourne, and in Bayside in particular, has not been created by The European Debt

When our market dives, it does it with style. Yes, there was a record number of properties on offer, but at the top end that led directly to what was almost certainly a record number of pass-ins. What did that look like? Look no further (and any resemblance to any real estate agents of this

Along with, at last count, 384 cities around the world, Melbourne claims to be the one which can offer four seasons in a day. That’s nothing. Look at our real estate. Changeable? We define it. In two months the clock has been wound back two years*. It’s buyers’ time again. What’s going on? We have

With school holidays rapidly approaching, the market was geared up for a record number of houses for sale in May. Mixed messages still permeate through the market and with conferences at Federation Square on underquoting*, times are … interesting. What is clear is that, after talking with dozens of estate agents, the common expression is

The equity market had the ride of a lifetime over the past week with uncertainty, a falling dollar and Government policy making it not a particularly nice place to be. As one investor wept: “I would rather be on holiday in Bangkok, it’s safer.” Meanwhile, in real estate … Over the weekend, the top end

Kids, we don’t want to frighten you, but things just get weirder with each passing week. Weirder and weirder. The exceptional will always be the exceptions: they’ll sell. But finding buyers for anything less has now become work. Auctioneers who had bidders leaning out of passing car windows only a few weeks ago are now