A vendor advocate works with you when you are selling your home or investment property and provides you with trusted impartial advice to protect your interests through out the entire selling process. A Vendor Advocate is an experienced negotiator that will provide you the guidance and support required to achieve the best possible outcome for you. The advocate will work with you to select the …
Selling your home? Make sure you remove these deal breakers!
Selling a home these days means you need to be on trend and clutter free with your interior design. Your goal should always be to have the buyer picture him or herself living in their new home – your home! Decluttering is vital, to ensure that any prospective buyer can visualise themselves living in the space. A declutter can include removing bulky appliances, any personal items and …
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Questions from a first home buyer
As a Buyer's and Seller's Advocate who's helped many people to buy and sell property over the years, I've been asked a lot of questions about how it all works. If you're looking to buy your first home, searching for your next one, or planning to sell your home, you might be feeling that uneasiness that comes from not knowing what you don't know. Take a moment …
What is a buyer’s advocate?
Have you heard of a Buyer’s Advocate before? Are you still unsure about what we do for people seeking to buy property? Relax. Your questions are about to be answered. If you’ve still got any lingering questions by the end of this article, I’ll gladly answer them for you. Just send them my way! What is a Buyer’s Advocate? A Buyers Advocate, also called a Buyers Agent, is a licensed …
Now more than ever parents are helping adult children into the property market
Now more than ever, many first home buyers in Melbourne are relying on their parents to get into the property market. Research indicates that more than a third of parents in Victoria provide financial assistance to their adult children to help them purchase their first home. Property values in Melbourne continue to soar. In this June quarter, the median house price for Melbourne was …
A house versus a unit
In the last 12 months, research has shown that house prices have sky rocketed three times faster than those of units. In a recent article written by the Domain's, James Robinson, it appears Melbourne's inner south and inner eastern suburbs have the most significant gap in pricing between houses and units. Thanks to Melbourne holding the unenviable title of most locked down city in the …
What’s happening with the property market?
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 months have shown us that often our existing home is not adequate (not enough/no outdoor space, no place to home school, work from home or …
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Regional Victoria boom
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 due to the pandemic. The boom is widespread and includes, but is not limited to the surf coast, Bellarine Peninsula, alpine …
Southeast rail line sparks housing boom
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 via an elevated sky rail and crossover. The plan is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and has already sparked a housing lot …
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Now’s the time to sell!
Often, the rule of home buying is sell first, then buy. It appears this has never been truer. With the property market going from strength to strength and the demand for houses, especially in Melbourne, being at an all time high, it seems right now is the time to sell. Particularly if you are considering downsizing, there's a good chance you'll be left with cash to splurge. …