Using the Prince Charming Principle in the Sydney Property Market When it comes to buying your dream home and combining it with reality, there’s usually a process that we need to go through. So often we have to hold our clients’ hand through this rather emotional process. Liken it to the prince charming principle. You [...]
Why you need a Property Coach in the Sydney Property Market Having been in the property industry for 17 years now with 9 years on the sales side it has taught me a lot about not only buying property but advising my clients on how to sell well too. This has led me to see [...]
Home Loans: A First-Home Buyers’ Guide to Government Grants The State and Federal governments in Australia in 2000 announced the First Home Owner Grant (FHOG), a national program which was funded by all the States and territories to compensate for the consequences of the Good and Services Tax (GST) on home ownership. The scheme is [...]
Visualize Your Future to Buy Your Next Home A few years ago I met a lovely couple who were living in the burbs with their three kids. They had just assumed that when you have kids you move to the burbs. One day they opened the cupboard only to find 6 blenders falling out. They [...]
A Blog from 2016 – The Lessons We Can Learn If you solely relied on statistics you would never buy into the Sydney property market. We see auction clearance rates for the entire city and the newspapers report Sydney wide prices as one entity. Boom or Bust, 50% decrease in prices and so on. However, [...]
Downsizing with a buyer’s agent in the Sydney property market. One of my earliest memories in real estate was going through a deceased estate in Balmain. It was an original weatherboard cottage. The paint was peeling off the inside of the house and the kitchen was blackened, the toilet was still outside and the electricity [...]
7 Steps to Help You if You Keep Missing Out on Property in the Sydney Market If you have been considering buying real estate in the current market and keep missing out then you might be starting to think “why bother?” I still believe that property investment in Sydney is a great way to park [...]
How to Overcome your Blind Spots in the Sydney Property Market “For the same reason we can’t tickle ourselves, we can’t see our own blind spots.” I had a lovely couple recommended to me by a real estate agent in Sydney’s Inner West. These guys started their property journey with a tiny house in Erskineville. [...]
Should you buy off the plan in the Sydney Property Market? For the time poor busy executive buying something off the plan or new can be very appealing. You walk into the showroom, everything feels new, the salesperson talks to you about the concept of the building, hands you a beautiful brochure, you see the [...]
Choosing to go to Auction in the Sydney Property Market Recently I was bidding for some clients in Randwick. After finishing my price research I realized that the agent was quoting more than what I thought the property was worth. I thought it was worth between $2,450,000 - $2,500,000. I then advised my clients the [...]
