Melbourne Suburbs Where Sales Are Plummeting

by Wendy Chamberlain | Jul 11, 2025 | Auctions, Buying a Home, Real Estate News, Selling a Home

PropTrack’s June home price data showed that Melbourne’s property market is finally gaining some ground with prices rising for a second consecutive month, but that is of little relevance in suburbs where sales volumes have plummeted during the last...

The Huge Impact School Zones Are Having On Melbourne Property Prices

by Wendy Chamberlain | Jul 4, 2025 | Auctions, Buying a Home, Real Estate News, Selling a Home

Recent analysis by the Real Estate Institute of Victoria shows the surprisingly high premiums Melbourne families are paying for homes within exclusive school zones compared to properties just outside the zone. In some cases properties within the zone of highly...

Why Melbourne Properties Are Taking Longer To Sell

by Wendy Chamberlain | Jun 27, 2025 | Auctions, Buying a Home, Real Estate News, Selling a Home

An ‘old’ property listing is defined by SQM Research as being on the market for over 180 days. Recent SQM Research data showed that the number of old listings rose nationally by 8.8% during May, and by 6.2% in Melbourne. Across the past year,...

First Home Buyers Missing Out On Concessions

by Wendy Chamberlain | Jun 20, 2025 | Auctions, Buying a Home, Real Estate News, Selling a Home

New research shows Victoria’s first home buyers are missing out on the concession that could save them thousands of dollars and help them take that first step into the property market.  Victoria’s first home buyer concession scheme waives the stamp duty...

Are Property Price Guides Just Taking Us For A Ride?

by Wendy Chamberlain | Jun 13, 2025 | Auctions, Buying a Home, Real Estate News, Selling a Home

In a recent interview with the Sydney Morning Herald’s Jim Malo, Wendy Chamberlain calls property price guides ‘a work of fiction.’ If you’ve been on a fruitless and frustrating house-hunting expedition in Melbourne’s property market,...

Why You Should Buy Property In Melbourne NOW

by Wendy Chamberlain | Jun 6, 2025 | Auctions, Buying a Home, Real Estate News, Selling a Home

While Melbourne and Canberra have been the only capital cities to record annual declines in their home values of -1.2% and -0.7% respectively, it appears that is about to change. RBA rate cuts in February and May have helped to boost borrowing power, with further rate...