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The headline says Melbourne property is falling. The data says something more interesting: it depends entirely on which suburb you bought in.
Most buyers spend more time inspecting a second-hand car than a $700,000 house. The final inspection before settlement is your last legal opportunity to flag problems. Here's exactly what to check.
Across six southeast Melbourne suburbs, we tracked what buyers actually paid for properties with granny flats versus identical neighbours without them. The premium was consistently $100K-$200K — yet a
Every word you say at an open inspection is ammunition for the other side. I watched one sentence cost a buyer eighty thousand dollars at auction.
I bought this place when nobody wanted to touch Melbourne. Three years later it's worth $230K more than I paid, and the rent covers everything with change to spare.
You have found the house. Perfect location, right price, layout that makes sense. There is one problem: your current property has not sold yet. The deposit money is locked in the equity of a house tha
Not even Boxing Day yet and half the country feels broke. The flights, the hotels, the mortgage repayments, the notification pings from Afterpay. Public holidays have become a financial stress test fo
In years of working as a buyer's agent, I have watched clients almost buy properties that would have set them back half a decade. Not because the properties were obviously terrible—some looked fantast
Twenty-six days. That is how much diesel Australia has in reserve. The country has two refineries. They supply 20% of finished fuel demand. The other 80% arrives on ships from overseas. If those ships
The Indian community in Australia figured out something decades ago that most Chinese-Australian investors still resist. They do not need to own the house they sleep in. They need to own the houses th
I drove to the build site last week to check on progress. It was 38 degrees. The plumber was running pipe. I brought him water and a pack of smokes. He brought his apprentice and worked twice as fast.
There are four categories of property where the price is irrelevant. They could be giving it away and I would still tell you to keep walking. Because the cost of buying wrong does not show up on settl
Thirty-million dollar question for bargain hunters: what's the difference between a $300K house yielding 6% in a mining town and a $300K house yielding 6% in a regional hub? About twenty years of heav
Everyone sees the renovation profit. Almost nobody sees the tax bill coming. I dug through the ATO's own guidelines and found three traps that turn a $150K profit into a $58K headache. Plus the one st
I used to think off-market meant gold. Then I went through three years and hundreds of off-market listings. Now I know better. Let me save you from the same expensive education.
I've started calling them the 'high-net-worth poor'. On paper, millionaires. In practice, one unexpected car repair away from a margin call on their life. If that sounds dramatic, wait until I show yo
The client thought I was a scam artist. Then the rent started hitting her account at $1,200 a week, and she called back asking if I could do the same thing for her cousin. This is the case study, with
The neighbour across the road has an identical-looking house. Same street, same vintage, similar purchase price. Their rental income? $600 a week. Mine is double that. Here's exactly where the $150K w
Every time a government rolls out a low-deposit scheme, the headlines celebrate. But the spreadsheet tells a different story. I ran the numbers on 5% deposit mortgages and what I found should make any
I crawl under houses for a living. Not glamorous. Not pleasant. Definitely not what my mum expected when I got my degree. But the two minutes I spend with my head in a subfloor access hatch have saved
I have been hunting for ways to stretch my borrowing capacity for months. Then a broker sat me down and walked through six adjustments that banks never advertise. One of them—cutting a credit card I t
Strip away the opera house, the beaches, and the global liveability rankings. What you find underneath is a country that chose the easy road fifteen years ago and has been paying for it ever since. Re
A client rang me last week. Said their agent was recommending a new-build in Clyde North. Great price, guaranteed rental return, close to the new Westfield. I opened my spreadsheet. Took about forty s
A Sydney-based investor with holdings across Australia came to us with one gap in his portfolio: Melbourne. No time to fly down every weekend. Needed a team that could find, buy, renovate, and manage—
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