$1.821m but you can't live there! Uninhabitable but full of potential, the auctioneer knocked back the opening bid and then welcomed $500 bids at the end!

191 buyer inspections and an auction bought forward by a week - the large crowd expected a fire cracker of an auction from the 11 registered bidders.

Free property reports are unreliable and worthless. Read my case study of how four difference property reports gave four different results for the same property - and all of them were wrong.

An auction where the successful purchaser paid about $200,000 more than they needed to. Relatively unbelievable.

They had no competition and this house was far from anything special.

402/320 Harris Street Pyrmont auction - Why this apartment sold for $140,000 more than its neighbour five months ago

2 Crown St St Peters auction - Why the auction started $400,000 over the guide and where it went from there

Are you struggling to execute on your strategy of buying a property? Are you looking at multiple suburbs, multiple dwelling types, and working in a broad budget range?

You may be challenged by the Paradox of Choice

3 Consett St Dulwich Hill auction review - The full run down on how this auction unfolded and how it landed 20% higher than the original price guide.

How 2 identical properties go to auction 4 weeks apart and the auction result is 20% different!

This auction proves the market is currently sitting right where it was in March 2021... which puts buyers in a very dangerous predicament

With a price guide just $25,000 above what the owner paid 3.5 years ago, the vendor was seriously at risk of selling this home at a loss

This 2 bedroom free standing home on a decent size block attracted a number of people to the auction. Guide of $1.4m bringing in a number of first home buyers. Opening bid $50,000 above the guide. How far did it go?

12 Bubalo St Warriewood Auction Review. Guide $2m. How far above an advertised price guide can a property be passed in?

This average 2 bedroom Coogee apartment had a price guide of $1,050,000 which resulted in absolute firecracker of an auction! Read on to find out how the auction played out, what it took to buy and watch a video of just how many people showed up to bid.

How do you work out if you should sell your first property allowing you to buy in your ideal location, or keep the first property and buy in a location you like, but don’t love?

What are the trade offs? What is the financial outcome of each scenario? Do you have the right information to make an informed decision?

I wrote the rule book at one of Australia’s leading in financial service companies as to how home loan discounting works - who can get a lower interest rate on their home loan, what level of discount you can get, and the best way to go about it.

Life is not the same post covid, and nor is the property market or the types of property that people will pay a premium for. I share my insights on what qualities buyers value more now than ever before

If you are focused on the purchase price and trying to buy at the bottom of the market, then you are focused on the wrong thing and it is costing you thousands. Read on for why understanding the impact of total interest over the life of your loan will end up costing you more than what you save on price.

Why buying in a “Buyer’s Market” still provides challenges, and what can buyer’s do to be best placed.

From bargain buys, to hour long auctions and properties selling for more than 20% than two years ago, 2022 certainly produced some surprising results.