Most people decide to sell before they know what selling actually costs.Most vendors commit to selling well before they have run the full numbers. The motivation arrives first. The costs arrive later - some before listing, some during the campaign, and some only at settlement.The cos

Most vendors spend more energy negotiating the the agent commission than they spend evaluating whether the agent can actually negotiate on their behalf.That response is understandable. Commission is the most visible cost in a property sale. Because it is tied to a sale price that has not yet

The standard property investment checklist - median trend, yield, entry price, comparable growth - works well in established markets. Applied unchanged to land-release suburbs, it produces a picture that looks similar but behaves differently. The supply dynamic is not the same, and the investment ca

There is an irony at the centre of how first home buyers use property data. The buyers who rely most heavily on suburb medians to make their decisions are typically researching the suburbs where those medians are least reliable.Affordable suburbs - outer ring, lower price point, modest trans

Most vendors who invest in home staging think they are paying for their property to look beautiful. They are actually paying for something more specific - the removal of reasons buyers use to justify paying less.The difference matters because it changes the measure of success. A property tha