Super top-ups for downsizers

by Wendy Chamberlain | Jan 20, 2023 | Auctions, Buying a Home, Real Estate News, Selling a Home

From 1 January the age to qualify for a concession to top up super with proceeds of a house sale will be reduced from 60 to 55. Announced one week out from the May 2022 election by the Morrison government, Labor matched the pledge and legislated it after its election...

The unstoppable rise of social property selling

by Wendy Chamberlain | Jan 13, 2023 | Auctions, Buying a Home, Real Estate News, Selling a Home

We’re all used to shopping online by now but would you make the most expensive purchase of your life on social media? Social media is playing an increasingly important role in property sales, with platforms like Instagram and Facebook at the forefront of the shift....

Domain’s End of Year Wrap – 2022

by Wendy Chamberlain | Jan 6, 2023 | Auctions, Buying a Home, Real Estate News, Selling a Home

The experts at Domain have released their end-of-year wrap, and the consensus is the 2022 property market has behaved exactly like a rollercoaster. The year kicked off with a “once-in-a-generation property boom” before the market hit a significant...

REIV urges the government to focus on real estate sector

by Wendy Chamberlain | Dec 30, 2022 | Auctions, Buying a Home, Real Estate News, Selling a Home

The REIV has urged the re-elected Andrews Government to urgently focus on the real estate sector, with a range of critical market forces and industry issues surrounding and influencing the sector. Quentin Kilian, REIV’s CEO, has said now is the time for the...

Buying or selling a house is one of the top ten stressful life events.

by Wendy Chamberlain | Dec 23, 2022 | Auctions, Buying a Home, Real Estate News

It’s no secret that buying or selling a property is stressful and many would concur that it would be one of the top ten most stressful life events. Our own Buyers and Vendor Advocate, Wendy Chamberlain was recently a guest on Usawa’s Six Hats Podcast. and...

We took a temperature check of the market. Here’s what we found.

by Wendy Chamberlain | Dec 16, 2022 | Auctions, Buying a Home, Real Estate News, Selling a Home

As we roll towards Christmas, we have two more Saturdays of auctions. Then we’ll have a bunch of properties auctioned during the week in the days leading up to Christmas.  This happens every year. What also happens is that sellers stop putting their homes on the...