Interstate buyers researching Adelaide for the first time rarely arrive without assumptions. The assumptions come from whichever market they know best - the Sydney investor cycles and clearance rate swings, the Melbourne inner suburb premium and density dynamic. Those assumptions are applied to Adelaide and produce a picture that is partially accur

There is an irony at the centre of how first home buyers use property data. The buyers who rely most heavily on suburb medians to make their decisions are typically researching the suburbs where those medians are least reliable.The median for an affordable outer suburb and the median for a high-volume inner suburb look the same in a data table. Sam

Picture the week before your property goes live. There is a photographer booked, a floor plan being drawn, an online listing being written, and three different portals that all need separate account management.Most people have a rough idea of what a real estate agent does. The rough idea tends to underestimate the scope by quite a bit.This is not a

Vendors who defer or neglect basic repairs before listing often lose more in negotiation than they would have spent on the work itself. Buyers adjust their offers to account for visible maintenance issues, and those adjustments rarely reflect the actual cost of repair. The assumed threat of concealed issues tends to inflate the discount buyers dema