Sellers routinely spend money before listing their property. A significant portion of what sellers spend before listing does not return at settlement. Certain categories of pre-sale spending produce no return regardless of how much is committed to them.The gap between what sellers spend preparing a property for sale and what buyers are actu… Read More

Interstate buyers and sellers arriving in Adelaide from Sydney or Melbourne tend to repeat a consistent error. What they know about property from Sydney or Melbourne is real knowledge - it simply does not apply in the same way here.Adelaide operates as a distinct market with its own structural features, demand composition, and price behavio… Read More

Investors entering the Adelaide market frequently arrive with a framework developed in Sydney, Melbourne, or another capital - and that framework does not always transfer. The cost of those assumptions is not always immediately apparent - it tends to surface when the investor tries to sell or refinance and finds the outcome different from what they… Read More

A fifteen-minute drive can separate two suburbs by two hundred thousand dollars in median house price. Understanding why that gap exists tells a buyer or seller more about a market than any single median figure ever could.Most buyers and sellers perform some version of a suburb price comparison at some point in their property decision proce… Read More

Sellers routinely spend money before listing their property. A significant portion of what sellers spend before listing does not return at settlement. Some of it never had a chance of returning anything at all.Seller spending and buyer willingness to pay do not always align - and the gap between them is one of the more reliable sources of p… Read More