Most vendors spend more energy negotiating the the agent commission than they spend evaluating whether the agent can actually negotiate on their behalf.That response is understandable. Commission is the most visible cost in a property sale. Because it is tied to a sale price that has not yet

The gap between the lowest and highest appraisal on the same property is rarely small. Thirty thousand dollars. Fifty thousand. Sometimes more. And all three agents, when asked to explain their number, can point to comparable sales and adjustments that make their conclusion sound defensible. Which i

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 o

The buyers who need reliable suburb data most are often the ones working from the weakest version of it. Affordable outer suburbs produce median figures that look identical to those from established high-volume markets. The underlying statistical weight is not the same at all.The median for

The idea of competing buyers tends to get treated as a lucky outcome - the right property at the right time attracting the right level of interest. Sometimes that is true. More often it is not.Ask most sellers how buyer competition gets created and the answer tends to be vague. Good marketin