The home made just for you. It has your name all over it. Now all you have to do is buy it. There’s going to be an auction… You do your sums. You ask the agent what it will go for (it’s in your budget!). You check every nook, every cranny, every powerpoint, every cupboard. […]
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Everywhere you look doesn’t look like it looked before. How do you make sense of chaos? How can you predict what’s next? A glimpse at how we got here provides a clue. This is from realestate.com.au Victoria’s first COVID lockdown near-killed buyer interest, it then rose well above the norm until taking another hit
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A submarine, of course, because the real AAA action (and there’s a lot) is now underwater. And a mask because that’s what you need to go anywhere today. So. What’s up, down at the top? Market Crashes. Not. Last week non-AAA land went for $8,300/sq m. That kind of result was not alone. The doom-singers
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How was your Sunday? Kind of short? That will be the Winter Solstice. Traditionally the time for the real estate market to curl up and die. But there’s still life left if you know where to look. Just last week $25m changed hands (yes, really, real money and everything) and there are a couple in the
Some lessons for migratory estate agents who haven’t been around in MEL for longer than they can remember. Lesson 1. Is this winter? You open a door and it’s really cold. That’s a sign that it’s probably winter and you’re not in the South of France. Lesson 2. Things still get bought. Home things. (Yes!
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Chaos. Results can be a little difficult to predict “Chaos theory is a branch of mathematics focusing on the study of chaos—states of dynamical systems whose apparently-random states of disorder and irregularities are often governed by deterministic laws that are highly sensitive to initial conditions.” (thanks, Wikipedia) Well, it’s good to get that out of
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OK. There’s a heap of conflicting predictions about what real estate will and won’t do out there, so we have consulted the world’s most reliable prognosticators (one President excepted) for the answers you need. The Oracle of Delphi “Beware the Ides of…” (Sorry, wrong Oracle.) “You saw what happened with the GFC? Stock markets fell
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Now let’s be clear. What’s happening at the top end is that it’s: Booming Tanking Quiet Frenetic And that’s just the weekend. So every expert, every optimist, every pessimist, every Nostradamus is right on the money. Everybody wins! And then a little sense kicks in. At the top end, every home is unique, every trend
It’s on again. Last year ended with a kaleidoscope of views about where the market might be heading. This year? No-one, including us, came close to predicting the numbers hitting the ceilings of South Yarra, Red Hill or Clifftop Portsea (which is a suburb apart) — and that’s not including vendors who will need crowbars to
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The best laid plans … That don’t include a repeat of the last Top End Trends. Apologies. That was not meant to happen. Now, to return to regular programming… 2019. Are you confused yet? The divide is stark. Down where price trends are counted in thousands, things are looking up (prices, that is, although from
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