The median house price is the starting point for almost every property market conversation in Australia. It is repeated constantly and understood correctly far less often than it is used.Monthly median price data is published by multiple providers across every suburb, city, and growth corridor in Australia. What starts as a statistical output from

The assumptions investors bring to a new market are almost always formed in a different one. Applied to Adelaide, those assumptions produce miscalculations whose consequences often do not become clear until years into the hold period.Over the past several years the Adelaide residential market has appeared on more investor radar screens than at any

How First Impressions Influence Appraisal OutcomesA seller walks the agent through every improvement. The agent listens, inspects, and arrives at a number the seller was not expecting. This happens more often than agents would prefer to say - not because sellers are wrong to prepare, but because not all preparation is equal.The buyer response to a

The Battle of the BedroomsMost people are wrong about how property valuations actually work. They assume that a fresh coat of paint or a new kitchen benchtop are what force a property into the next price bracket. The absolute factual truth is that regional property values are entirely driven by the brutal reality of structural size. We are currentl

I sat with a seller in Gawler East who was worried about the future. They had tried to sell earlier in the year without success. You could see the disappointment because the house was solid, but the market just wasn't responding. I hear this often in our town's housing sector. People often think that listing on the internet is sufficient for a sale