An investor who bought in the inner eastern suburbs in 2005 and held for fifteen years did well. But an investor who applied the same logic in 2018, paying a premium for inner-ring scarcity at peak prices, has a different story. The premium was real. The subsequent growth was not proportional to what was paid for it. What has shifted is not the des

Most sellers arrive at that question with a number already forming in their head. It has been shaped by what a neighbour mentioned at a barbecue, what appeared on a property website, what they paid plus what they spent on renovations, and what they feel they deserve after years of ownership. By the time an agent walks through the door, the seller h

For most of the past two decades, the conventional wisdom on Adelaide property investment pointed firmly inward. Buy close to the city. Pay the premium. Benefit from the scarcity. It was a reasonable framework - and for a long time it worked. This article examines what has changed in the Adelaide investment property landscape, why the outer norther

The decision to sell a house rarely arrives with much warning. It tends to emerge gradually - through a change in circumstances, a growing family, a job that has moved, or simply the recognition that the current property no longer fits the life being lived in it. When that decision does arrive, the instinct for most homeowners is to call an agent a

The common assumption is that buyers approach a property inspection logically. The expectation is that buyers assess a property on its merits and make a rational choice.That is not what happens.Buyers walk in with an emotional response already forming. The facts come later - used to justify a decision that was already forming before they reached th