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Investors Are Back

It felt more like early summer than late autumn on Saturday as I stood, uncomfortably warm in my suit and tie, in the middle of Gladstone Avenue, Armadale counting the bids as the flew rapidly at me. After a spirited battle covering a couple of hundred thousand dollars in 10’s and 5’s and eventually 1’s, […]

Not Everything is Flying…

There’s a saying in real estate, ‘buy a bargain, sell a bargain’. It’s true. (Sales) history tends to repeat itself. With a few exceptions, a great property will be in demand each successive time it sells, and a compromised property will struggle each time it sells – independent of the current selling conditions. A property […]

Cooling Off Explained

In Victoria a ‘cooling off’ period applies to the purchase of residential property by private treaty. This means that if you purchase a property you can effectively walk away from the sale for whatever reason even after you’ve signed an executed contract and paid a deposit, within three ‘clear business days’. It sounds fairly straight […]