T.E.T.

Grab your coat!

A chill has descended. At the Top End, the market’s caught in moody stand-offs — no one quite sure whether to pull the trigger or pull the doona over their heads. Buyers are skittish, sellers are split between hopeful and haunted and agents are eyeing their San Tropez floaties with more than usual caution. Still, […]

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Reality Nibbles

Knock the clock back 100 years and it was the Roaring 20s. Today it’s more like the Truth Is Out There Maybe 20s. Clendon Road. $150m? Really? It’s been a feast of fabrications and self-serving leftovers served up by agents who know better. Some clarification: We are not about to be invaded by hordes of

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Ho! Ho! Woe!

‘Tis the season to be jolly for buyers, run for the hills for sellers. Yesterday there were 13 of those with $20m+ homes to sell and hardly a buyer on the horizon. Today? We’re seeing two strong maybes (including a two-figure millions price drop). Yes. Some opportunities are very much worth exploring. You’re buying? It’s

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Boing!

A post-budget boing? That’s rarely heard. Yet Boing! it did. In the week after the budget, $320m+ changed hands in Toorak, including two homes which had been begging for attention for over 6 months (one reverberating to six expressions of interest, leaving five interested parties with pockets full of $20m wandering 3142 with nowhere to

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Sinking or swimming?

There are sinkers and swimmers in the ever-intriguing river which is the top end. Swimmers are mostly underwater, out-of-sight sales made quickly and quietly. Down there, you are in the know or out in the cold. Sinkers? The no-ways. Save your grief and your money. Then come the litmus tests. The exceptions with the lot.

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