So what was that all about? The tide came in, the tide went out, the tide came in… It was that kind of year. For buyers, the best time this year was November last year; but that’s stretching it. This year this year went off like a cracker. Buyers everywhere and wallets agape. And then […]
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Is the election to blame? No. The wheels have been falling off a lot of the action since Cup week. EOI Ouch The great big pile of Expressions Of Interest which closed last week. Not a SOLD sign among them. (It’s the price, people, it’s the price.) Inspections Ouch Saturday’s opens may as well have
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The bloke in the red suit has his dates mixed up. It’s still November and, right there under the tree, there are more presents than you can count. Children, you must have been very, very good. Some due to be opened just this week are: 38A Lansell Road, Toorak 46 Canberra Road, Toorak (again) 11
Cup week can do strange things – and not only to the citizens at Flemington. At the top end it often brings with it a change in the real estate weather; and it’s starting to look like a cool breeze is coming. Much has to do with a surge of off-market offerings onto what for a moment
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A Cup For Every Starter There are cups and there are cups. Some filled with champagne, others with flat beer. And it’s been some horse race out there. The Sprinters $2-4m. Huge field and queues of jockeys, yet results still vary between tears of joy and disappointment. Some vendors coming home to cheering crowds, others doomed to
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Are we seeing – at least at the top end – the end of the auction era? And are advertised ‘private’ sales approaching the end of their road? More and more the real action is off-market (much of it not even involving agents). But … why? The answer to the auction question is easy: At the top
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The Block is a television program. A reality television program. Expect unreality. And so it was. Five apartments that contestants had been labouring over for as many months, finally going onto the block with their renovators in line for anything paid above their reserves. And all of them looked like they would have struggled to reach much
Footy: Done School hols: Done Sharemarket: Hmmm Oz$: Hmmmmmmmmm Eight weeks to Christmas and now there’s nowhere left to hide. It’s crunch time. Do it now, or stay put ’til March or later? That is the question. Meanwhile, in the dark… Nothing ever happens during the school holidays. Or does it? 750 Orrong Road Finally
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Week in, week out there are prognosications about what “the” market is doing. Most prove to be about as useful as fortune telling: generalised opinions around the obvious. It may be that no man is an island, but many properties are markets unto themselves. There is no “the” market. Which brings us to lonely bidders.
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The to be or not to be thing. There’s a lot of it around. The Agent’s Lament June. Agent’s phone rings. “We’d like you to tell us how much we could get…” July. “We’re still thinking. Maybe after the holidays?” August. “Is now the right time? Really?” September. “Maybe after the footy finals?” Lots of