The Adelaide house price median is the number everyone quotes and almost nobody interrogates. It appears in news headlines, agent appraisals, and suburb reports as though it were a precise measurement of what property is worth. It is not. It is a measurement of what sold - and those two things are only the same when the composition of what sold sta… Read More

Most vendors who invest in home staging think they are paying for their property to look beautiful. They are actually paying for something more specific - the removal of reasons buyers use to justify paying less.That reframe changes how the staging decision should be made. The question is not whether the property will look impressive at the… Read More

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… Read More

There is a version of agent selection that feels considered and turns out not to be.The appraisal meeting feels like an interview. In most cases it is closer to a sales presentation. The seller is the audience, not the assessor - and the dynamic only shifts if the seller deliberately makes it shift.Poor agent selection rarely announ… Read More

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… Read More