When you’re house shopping and find a property that ticks a lot of your boxes, it can be difficult to contain your excitement. Whilst this can be great because your hunt for the perfect home might be over, it can also be problematic if it blinds you from reality. The first thing we always recommend is to arrange an independent building & pest inspection [...]
The spring/summer real estate sales season has arrived and if you’re in the market to buy or sell, we’ve got some great tips for you. If you’re selling, there are a couple of things that are non-negotiables if you want to get the best sale price: De-clutter and de-personalise your home. Look at it from a stranger’s point of view and remove, clean up, [...]
If your home needs a revamp whether it’s to make you fall in love with it again or in preparation to sell, here are our top tips to breathe some new life into your home: Repaint – inside or out, or both. A fresh coat of paint is ideal to make a tired home look bright and fresh again. You’re best to stick with [...]
To many people, this is just a date on the calendar. A day to give your kids a pinch and a punch for the first of the month - unless they beat you to it. But it’s also a great time to set financial goals. What do you want to achieve this financial year? Do you have goals, targets, a plan, a spending and [...]
When is the right time to buy property? This is one of the questions I get asked most often, but there is no secret formula that can give you a definitive answer. We don’t know when the market is going to turn, we don’t know when property demand and supply will be optimally balanced in your favour, we don’t know when your dream home [...]
It’s often so easy to have your plan railroaded by other people, events and activities. Then, all of a sudden you wonder what happened. Does this sound familiar? I hear it often with people who are still waiting to buy a house. They were waiting to see what the fall out would be after Covid - thinking it would just be an event that [...]
When you're buying a house, whether it's your home or an investment property, there are three things you must do. Have your finance organised. Finding the perfect home and then missing out on it because someone else can sign the dotted line or pay the deposit before you can is hard! Arranging pre-approval, knowing your borrowing capacity and having everything ready to go, gives [...]
Since Covid hit and brought with it the opening up of options to work from home and the realignment of many of our values, Aussies are having a love affair with regional areas. And I totally get it! CoreLogic’s quarterly Regional Market Update shows Australia’s 25 largest non-capital city regions continued to achieve unprecedented increases in value. Over the 12 months to January 2022, [...]
The way the property market is right now, it's really important to think outside the square if you want to upgrade or even to buy your first home. Buying a property that is ripe for renovation is a great way to get your foot in the door if you're struggling to find exactly what you want at the price you can afford. But buying a [...]
Are you getting itchy feet in your home and thinking it’s time for a change? Are you running out of room and need more space? Or maybe you’ve got too much room and need to downsize. Or maybe it’s just time to have a new experience of living in a new town and a new home. A great place to start the ball rolling [...]
