DAVID SCIOLA

Partner & Auctioneer

David is a highly regarded Partner and auctioneer in Jellis Craig Stonnington’s top performing sales team, led by Carla Fetter. In 2019, he won the company-wide Jellis Craig Rising Star Award, recognising his fierce work ethic and high-impact auction style.

First to spring delivers a strong start

On Saturday, it felt a little like the old days. The sun was out, the streets were full, open homes were busy and there were big crowds at the auctions. We even had the Domain coffee cart out. Perhaps it was all the caffeine, but the bidders certainly came ready to compete. As part of…

What 140 groups on Saturday told me…

If you’ve been wondering where all the new listings have been lately… so have the buyers. The past five or six weeks have been about as quiet as winter usually gets in Stonnington. Plenty of buyers have been refreshing REA and Domain like they’re trying to buy Taylor Swift tickets, only to discover there wasn’t much to look at.…

State of the Market

The market is quieter. That doesn’t mean it’s stopped. After a short break from my market updates (no, it wasn’t a sabbatical in Europe), I thought it was worth sharing what we’re seeing on the ground. There’s no doubt conditions have become more challenging over the past nine months. Higher interest rates, ongoing economic and…