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Pitch it low and watch it go or pitch it high and watch it die.  The language used by agents when it comes to pricing a property.  Agents are forever being accused of underquoting – pitch it low and watch it go - and every...

Last week saw the final weighted average clearance rate improve across a lower volume of auctions and fewer withdrawn auctions. There were 1,154 capital city homes scheduled for auction last week, returning a final auction clearance rate of 58.7%.  To the week ahead now and...

Property buyers and first home buyers in particular are really unmatched when it comes to negotiating with real estate agents. For starters, they are emotional when the agent usually isn’t. But they also fail to recognize that the agent knows a whole lot more information...

Meighan Wells and Veronica Morgan have taken for granted that they know what to look for when inspecting a property, but when they've been running our first home buyer Facebook Live Q&As, they've been inundated with questions about how they can avoid buying a lemon....

Welcome to this special report on the state of the Australian Market.  Earlier today CoreLogic released its Hedonic Home Value Index that indicated that Australian housing values continued to drift lower for the third month.  CoreLogic’s home value index dropped 0.6% over the month, a...

  Fewer homes withdrawn Volumes trend lower The CoreLogic report on the weekend’s auction activity shows that the combined capital city preliminary clearance rate improved across a lower volume of auctions this week.    There were 1,162 homes taken to auction returning a preliminarily success rate...

Property buyers feel like there are these key questions they SHOULD always ask agents. Yet they often don’t know what to do with the answers. Veronica Morgan asks Meighan Wells, what are some of the dumbest questions you’ve heard buyers ask?...

Over the last few weeks Veronica Morgan and Meighan Wells have been sitting in the chair and Kevin has to say the reaction from you has been fabulous.  So much so that this week they are flying solo – so to speak – if doing...

  ‘Price clustering’ ahead in NSW 90% withdrawn or sold prior in Melbourne Brisbane numbers surge There were 1,326 capital city homes scheduled for auction last week 54.1% returned a successful result, which was an improvement from the week prior by one percentage point. There are 1,206...