Out in force

Team Fetter/Sciola had possibly our busiest day of the year on Saturday.  Buyers were out in force. We had 62 groups inspect 32a Cromwell Road, South Yarra; 42 groups at 21 Stuart Street, Armadale; 37 groups at 10 Westbourne Street, Prahran; 25 groups at 40 Chomley Street, Prahran; and a total of over 200 groups across our eight open […]

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House price changes since the pandemic

Today we had a guest presentation from PropTrack’s Senior Economist, Paul Ryan.  Being a bit of a stats nerd, I love these presentations. Unlike the forecasts and predictions from banking analysts, which are generally not worth the pixels they are written on, the data and statistics from PropTrackare reliable.  These are hard data – sold prices, sales volume, […]

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Spring hope

There was minimal auction activity over the long weekend as we head into the final two weeks of auctions before the winter hiatus.  Buyers are hopeful of a busier spring.  We are also hoping for a busier spring, but not necessarily expecting one.  To paint a picture of just how quiet this year has been […]

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Nine out of ten

We have a fresh new look this week for our new listings email. We hope you like it! As our Managing Director, Andrew McCann, said in our sales meeting on Tuesday, “We are marketers, not valuers.” Our job is to engage buyers, generate activity and interest, and ideally create competition.  We connect the dots. We […]

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Social Proof

I called three auctions on Saturday. All sold. One had two bidders, one had four bidders and one had five bidders.  And yet they all started exactly the same way, after a very energetic yet concise pre-amble… “Who’d like to kick things off with an opening bid?” Crickets.  Why does no one ever want to […]

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“Housing market finds a floor”

On Friday Jellis Craig hosted our inaugural Property Event for over 450 guests at The Glasshouse. Hosted by Melbourne-local Alicia Loxley, the morning of insights featured a line-up of notable speakers including Property Economist Tim Lawless and Demographer Bernard Salt. It was a fantastic event. Given my predilection towards numbers, graphs and statistics, (Carla calls […]

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