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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Scarcity Isn’t Seasonal
A perennial question from buyers: “Will there be more stock after Cup Day? After summer? After Easter? After winter?” Short answer: probably not. We live in a market of scarcity at the best of times. Excluding new apartments, Stonnington has…
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Which Buyer Type Are You?
We deal with a lot of buyers. Hundreds each week. Thousands each year. Across the Jellis Craig network, there are more than a million contacts in our database. If you’ve ever enquired on or inspected one of our properties… you’re…
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