by Wendy Chamberlain | Nov 1, 2021 | Buying a Home
With part of the traditional spring selling season experienced in lockdown, we still seem to have a few legs left in the Melbourne property market. The fundamentals remain the same – people need somewhere to live. If anything, the past 20...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Nov 1, 2021 | Suburb Profile
Buying a property in Warrandyte can be a daunting and difficult process. For many of us, buying property is something we only do a few times in our lives. A buyers advocate (also known as a buyers agent or property finder) can be an enormous help when buying a home or...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Nov 1, 2021 | Buying a Home, Real Estate News
Regional Victoria suburbs are experiencing a major price increase boom! Research shows that properties are earning four times more than the average income of regional homeowners. This is thanks to sea and tree change buyers accelerating their move to regional towns...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Oct 31, 2021 | Auctions
The week ending 31st October delivered a clearance rate of 85% from the 1088 auctions reported for the period (based on REIV data). At the same time last year, there were 489 auctions reported. 633 homes sold at auction last week and another 289 sold prior to auction,...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Oct 28, 2021 | Buying a Home, Real Estate News
We will see an extra 7200 homes built in the outer south-east thanks to a major rail line extension and upgrade. It appears that the building of new train stations in Pakenham and Pakenham East is set to commence this year with this busy rail line to be extended 2km...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Oct 26, 2021 | Buying a Home, Real Estate News
Amongst many other changes to our lives, the last two years have seen a re-evaluation of how much space and the type of accommodation we need. Considering the number of weeks in lockdown we have spent in our homes, particularly in Melbourne, a home office or study has...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Oct 25, 2021 | Suburb Profile
Buying a property in Croydon can be a daunting and difficult process. For many of us, buying property is something we only do a few times in our lives. A buyers advocate (also known as a buyers agent or property finder) can be an enormous help when buying a home or...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Oct 24, 2021 | Auctions
The week ending 24th October delivered a clearance rate of 90% from the 968 auctions reported for the period (based on REIV data). At the same time last year, there were 371 auctions reported. 575 homes sold at auction last week and another 292 sold prior to auction,...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Oct 21, 2021 | Buying a Home
On the 8th of October the Victorian government announced it is launching the Victorian Homebuyer Fund (VHF) – a $500 million “shared equity” scheme to try and help about 3000 people make their dream of becoming a home owner a reality. The VHF will...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Oct 19, 2021 | Suburb Profile
Buying a property in Heathmont can be a daunting and difficult process. For many of us, buying property is something we only do a few times in our lives. A buyers advocate (also known as a buyers agent or property finder) can be an enormous help when buying a home or...