The real estate valuation Australia sellers picture in their heads usually involves a tape measure, a clipboard, and a short walk through each room ending in a figure. What actually shapes that figure often starts in the driveway, well before the agent has even reached the front door, and it is the … Read More

From the side of the seller, a campaign looks like a set of numbers: inspections attended, enquiries logged. It is natural to treat those figures as the full story. What actually shapes the result takes place somewhere else entirely, in conversations between the agent and interested buyers that rare… Read More

House prices Adelaide sellers hear quoted rarely tell the full story until you watch two nearly identical properties launch in the same suburb within the same fortnight. Same block size, same number of bedrooms, same general condition, built within a few years of each other. One sold in eleven days … Read More

Consider what actually happens during a typical appraisal process. A vendor sees three agents. Two quote within a similar range, supported by recent comparable sales. The third quotes significantly higher. The vendor, understandably, leans toward the higher figure. They sign. The campaign launches. … Read More

I was talking to a homeowner not long ago who had just come from three independent appraisals on their Gawler home. The figures were spread across a sixty thousand dollar window. The homeowner was frustrated — and truthfully.Figures that far apart is something that happens regula… Read More