If the numbers (and facial expressions) at open inspections are anything to go by, nabbing a nifty rental property to call home is proving more of a challenge than ever before. First-time renters, students and lower income earners are now competing against experienced tenants and...
There’s something about DIY culture that sits nice and ‘flush’ with us Aussies. The satisfaction of knocking up a cheap, practical no-fuss solution to a domestic problem using little more than our bare hands, a few recycled odds and ends and a lick of paint...
To make the most of the present, it can sometimes pay to revisit the past. After all, trends come and go, and many old classics are joyously recycled. From cars, food and beards on footballers to the ‘big picture’ things, such as how and where...
You’re at an auction. A sea of suits (or, for us Melburnians, raincoats) is all that stands between you and your dream property. The playing ground seems as level as the front lawn you tread upon…or is there more at play here, amidst the chatter,...
Recently, I got thinking about the many tactics a real estate agent uses to obtain the highest and best price for their client – now there is nothing wrong with this because they are exclusively employed by the vendor to obtain the HIGHEST AND BEST...
As buyers advocates, it is our job to look after the buyer but I must say it gets really tiring when in a rising market people keep banging on about agents under-quoting. When an agent appraises a property for sale all they can ever use is...
We know what property is, but what is a 'spruiker'? A spruiker as listed in the online dictionary is: (intr) Austral archaic slang to speak in public (used esp of a showman or salesman). I believe that many property investment advisors are trying to offer financial...
I read an article recently in one of the investment magazines which was written with the aim of “improving the quality of advice” given by people in the property industry, the basic gist of the article was that approximately 80,000 professionals were directly and indirectly...
DO – be honest on your rental application DONT – request that the leasing agent meet you after 7pm when you finish work to sign the leases because you are too busy during work hours DO – come to your appointment on time DONT – assume we sit...
As buyers agents we are often submitting offers prior to auction or within a private sale campaign and each agency has a different procedure for dealing with acceptable offers. It was only recently when we submitted an offer to a relatively new office in St...