Author; David

It happens every time the market takes off. When prices are increasing rapidly agents quotes always lag behind. When you’re using comparable sales from six months ago, these could be 10 – 15% below current values. And so everything starts selling 5 – 10% above the range. This attracts potential sellers to market. Maybe I […]

I wonder if Jagger and Richards were thinking about real estate when they wrote this song… I doubt it. But it’s very applicable. It’s nigh on impossible to get what you want when looking for a house. At 79a Rowena Parade, Richmond (which has been converted to a private auction tonight) we have met buyers […]

The long weekend was a quiet reprieve after a crazy few weeks of sales activity. Numbers at opens were mixed, with anywhere from three to 35 groups inspecting our homes. Stock levels seem to be quite healthy right now scrolling through REA. Last week in particular saw quite an influx of properties going online to […]

Another weekend of over 90% clearance across the Jellis Craig network, slightly above the Victorian rate of 86% for a very healthy volume of 903 scheduled auctions. After Labour Day we have three clear weekends to auction until Easter, hence why we’re seeing a healthy amount of stock hitting the market last week, this week […]

Last week was eye opening. I’ve seen strong auction weekends before. February 2020 was strong. In 2016 and 2017 we saw a strong run with reserves being smashed week after week. But I’ve never seen anything like this. I couldn’t believe it as the following sales unfolded before my eyes in within 24 hours over […]

There’s a lot of momentum in the market right now and a five day lockdown isn’t about to stop that. If the lockdown is extended though it’s going to become a scheduling issue, first and foremost, with auctions and opens being delayed until we have the all clear. Interestingly, the clearance rate for last weekend, […]

You can think of downsizers as the ‘canary in the goldmine’ for the market. They tend to be the first to drop off (not literally) when the market heads south or when supply dries up, like last year. They also tend to be the last to re-emerge once conditions improve. And that is understandable. They […]

How rapidly things change. Flash back to April last year and we couldn’t get an offer to save ourselves. Buyers were more than happy to sit on the side-lines and wait for the market to implode. But it never did. Distressed sales? Didn’t happen. Negative net immigration? Didn’t matter. Recession? Not in Stonnington. Banks predicting […]

We are gradually moving back towards onsite Auction as the preferred sales method for most of our properties, particularly the broadly appealing single and double fronted period homes in the $1,000,000 – 3,000,000 bracket. Love ’em or hate ’em, Auctions are still the most straightforward, transparent and efficient way to sell houses in a market […]

Welcome back! You may recall on December 8th I wrote, ‘Are we up 10% in 10 weeks?’: I suggested that prices for period homes in Stonnington seemed to be up 10% in the 10 weeks since Stage 4 lockdown ended in late September. I thought I was being flippant, but it turns out I was […]