Most vendors focus on the commission percentage. Almost none of them ask what it covers. What follows is a clear account of the commission fee from the vendor side - not what agents say it covers, but what it genuinely needs to cover for a residential property campaign to produce a strong result.What Real Estate Agent Fees Are Actually … Read More

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… Read More

Every property conversation in Adelaide eventually arrives at the median house price. Almost nobody stops to ask what it actually measures. What follows is a clear account of the median house price as a tool - what it does well, where it fails, and what a more complete picture of the Adelaide market actually requires.Understanding What … Read More

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. What tends to happen next is where things go wrong. The homeowner calls an agent, gets… Read More

Affordable is one of the most used words in property and one of the least defined. A suburb described as affordable by a real estate agent, a property website, and a first home buyer rarely means the same thing to any of them. This article examines what genuine affordability means for first home buyers in Adelaide, why the northern corridor keeps p… Read More