
Why It’s So Hard to Find the Right Home
I’ve been looking for a home for about eight months now, and I haven’t seen a single property where I thought, “this is the one.” It’s surprisingly hard to find a good home. Granted, I’m looking in half of one…
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Transparency Wins – Why Auctions Work
I was speaking yesterday with one of my best mates, a real estate agent in Miami, and we got onto the topic of multiple offers. What he told me genuinely surprised me. Over there, agents aren’t even allowed to disclose…
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Your home is not an Investment
Australians love to talk about real estate. This is the basic premise: “Property always goes up.” Not only is this overly simplistic, but it’s also false. Sure, if you’re a Baby Boomer with a fifty-year time horizon, property has been…
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What Actually Makes People Move (Hint: It’s Not Rates)
Welcome back to our first new listings email of 2026. The Stonnington market has taken its time waking up after summer. That’s not unusual. February is often more of a warm-up lap than a flying start. But don’t be fooled.…
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Team Fetter/Sciola 2025 Wrap
2025 has been a big year. Humans returned to the moon – commercially this time. Taylor Swift got engaged. And Chat-GPT5 was released. (Chat suggested I mention that). The Stonnington real estate market has been a bumpy ride but overall,…
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Run Your Own Race: Why a Great Result in a Tough Market Can Outshine a Hot Market Sale
In 2024, Melbourne’s property market was at its lowest ebb in a decade – only the 2018 Banking Royal Commission dip came close. Yet even in that challenging environment last year, we saw some remarkable outcomes. A competitor sold a…
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