Underquoting: Who does it help?

Every weekend prospective buyers are walking away from auctions shaking their heads, and sometimes their fists at Real Estate Agents. The same story is heard over and over again. The agent said the “buyer interest” was around $450,000 or “we are telling people who have interest around $500,000 that they should look at this property”. […]

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The Melbourne property market is open for business

With an emphatic statement across the weekend, buyers put their money where their mouths are. From over 900 auctions, there was a clearance rate of 73% with only 35 unreported sales. This is at the very upper level of my expectations and it will bode extremely well for vendors over the next 3 months. Of […]

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The gap between agents’ advertising and “on the market”

There was a 60% clearance rate this weekend from 619 auctions. There were also over 450 private sales. Of the three properties we purchased last week all were either gazetted auctions or deadline sales. All were purchased prior to the gazetted date. Agents are definitely becoming more open to offers prior to auction when the […]

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