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There is no question that 2021 will be a property year for the record books.  Since the start of the year, property prices have surged pretty much everywhere, with double digit growth the “norm”.  What has been most extraordinary has been that Sydney was the top performer when it came to median house value growth over the […]

A bit like a party where no one wants to leave, but the sun rising the next morning kind of makes them do, there is some talk of late about a new dawn approaching for market conditions in Sydney.    On the ground, over the past few weeks, it does feel like some of the market heat has cooled, with a slight

Many buyers falsely believe that sellers are only after the highest price for their properties, when this is often not the case at all – even in strong market conditions.  In fact, whenever a buyer is aiming to secure a private treaty negotiation, while price is always important, it’s not the only factor that they should consider when they’re preparing

Did you know that compared to the first lockdown in Sydney last year, there are actually fewer properties for sale now than there was back then?  According to SQM Research, total property listings are down six per cent compared to April last year, which was a time of extraordinary unease for all of us.   Back then, the pandemic was so fresh, and

 We’ve all heard the classic yarns from our grandparents about when Richmond in Melbourne or Balmain in Sydney was working class and property prices were cheap.    Part of the reason for that, back in the old days, the landed gentry were exactly that – living on acreage far away from the inner-city where the factories and the population

Like many growing global cities, Sydney has a very short supply of available land close to the CBD.    The Sydney basin is flanked by mountains, national parks, and the sea, so when looking to booster our supply of well-located housing, we’ve had to go ‘up’ instead of ‘out’. Even with this geographical reality, Sydney apartments have seemed to

It’s long been a tradition of sorts for people to go on holiday somewhere and promptly decide they must own property there, too.   Usually, it’s because they want to have access to a holiday house before they retire there at some point in the future.   Alas, this non-strategy usually results in them losing money because they didn’t understand the

Whenever there is significant financial upheaval of some kind, the government of the day instigates stimulus measures to underpin our economy.   This is currently the situation with the HomeBuilder scheme and other grants offering tens of thousands of dollars to build or buy a new home as a way of shoring up our construction sector.   These sorts of economic stimulus policies are vital for our economic

It might be surprising to some people that there is more stock on the market in Sydney now than there was at the same time last year.   According to SQM Research, there were about 34,000 properties for sale in Sydney in October this year versus just under 30,000 at the same time last year.   Sure, during the pandemic, listings were