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...
We all know that the key to doing well from property is in the asset selection, but what makes a good asset, are all properties good properties? Why does one property outperform the other? These are very good questions and we believe there are some key...
The Million dollar market. I remember a time when $1 million dollars seemed like so much money, only the rich could buy a house at $1 million dollars or more, but now we find ourselves at a point in time where in inner Melbourne you...
One thing all landlords want is to have their property consistently leased with quality tenants. Of course the nature of rentals is that commonly every couple of years your tenants will vacate but there are a couple of things you can do to try and...
Should I fix my lease or leave the tenant on a month by month arrangement? Before reading the pros and cons about fixing a tenancy or not, there are some other points to consider that will play a great part in your decision. Once an original fixed...