Category Archives: Market Comment

Market Comment – Monday May 4th 2009

With a 77% clearance rate and over 1000 private sales last week we are certainly not in the doldrums as most commentators would have us believe. In fact we are moving along reminiscent of the pre GFC times during February and March 2008. Wasn’t it fantastic to find out that our property market had fallen […]

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Market Comment – Monday April 27th 2009

Over the weekend some agents defied protocol and ran open for inspections and even auctions before 1pm on Saturday. I would have preferred to give the day its due recognition but others didn’t. I think this is disappointing. For the full week however sales were up dramatically over the same week last year. This year […]

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Market Comment – Monday April 13th 2009

Vendor AdvocacyVendor advocates are popping up all over Melbourne. The majority of Buyer Advocates in Melbourne do some sort of vendor advocacy.(Apart from a potential legal conflict of interest, the moral dilemma would be next to impossible to cope with). There are quite a few selling agents who are promoting vendor advocacy quite strongly. After […]

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