Let’s call a spade a spade… Property in inner-city Melbourne has been a terrible investment over the last eight years. Every other week, there’s an example of a house purchased in Prahran, South Yarra, or Malvern in 2016 or 2017 selling for the same price today. There was a two-bedroom Victorian single front that sold […]
Read more "Why I’m bullish"If you’re an F1 fan like me, you’ll know that as tyres heat up, the tyre pressure increases. The heat and pressure in Melbourne’s property market last peaked around Cup Day 2021. As soon as the last lockdown ended, the pressure and temperature started to ease. It was a slow leak at first, but then […]
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Last week the cash rate dipped below 4% for the first time since 2023. This means you can borrow more money today than any time over the last two years. With a few more rate cuts ahead, your borrowing capacity will increase significantly. Buyers tend to find out their max budget and spend the full […]
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The Victorian era spanned from 1837 to 1901, but when it comes to Stonnington’s architectural charm, we’re zooming in on the “Late Victorian” period—think 1880 to 1900. This was the golden age when suburbs like Prahran, Windsor, South Yarra, Armadale, and Malvern were being shaped. Fast forward to today, and many of these beauties are […]
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Concerned about auctioning your property on Election Day? Don’t be. We held two auctions this past Saturday, and both were resounding successes. Debunking the Off-the-Plan Myth Think off-the-plan apartments always sell for less than their purchase price? Think again. We sold a modern two-bedroom apartment on High Street, Armadale, for approximately $600,000—32% more than its […]
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April hit the snooze button. Just 20 homes sold across Armadale, Toorak, Malvern, and Prahran—half the volume of April last year. If you spent Easter scrolling through real estate apps, you probably found more hot cross buns than hot listings. Stonnington’s market was sluggish —but Team Fetter/Sciola still sold seven homes, three of them off-market. […]
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Carla and I have sold more properties off market in the last six weeks than we sold in all of 2024. Six to be exact. Back in the bull markets of 2017 and 2021 we would sell approximately one in six homes off market. In 2023 and 2024 it was more like one in fifteen. […]
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We might have been getting ahead of ourselves. Surely the rate cut dopamine hit hasn’t worn off already? Has the market already reverted to where it finished off last year? Hesitant. Well not for us at least. We’ve had a remarkable start this year. 20 sales for Team Fetter/Sciola in the last 30 days. We […]
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It was a quiet Saturday for Team Fetter/Sciola. Just the one auction, having sold two other houses before auction. Our sole auction, a single front in Armadale, sold after passing in with three bidders. Our perfect success rate of 100% clearance out of the Stonnington office for the last two weeks came to an end, […]
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It’s been a while since bids have flowed so freely. It’s been a while since we’ve had 100% clearance on two consecutive Saturdays from our Stonnington office. It’s been a while since we’ve seen such big crowds at our auctions. There’s a bit of a buzz about the market right now. It feels markedly different […]
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David Sciola 