BY MAL JAMES 2020
Continued from Marketnews article
At first, it’s a little tricky to understand as Community Heritage is a great concept and we support it BUT the “heritage industry” in its quest, has come up with an additional and coincidentally great fee-paying concept, called Individual Heritage Orders (IHOs) which is not about community spaces, it’s about private homes.
IHO’s [...]
BY MAL JAMES 2019
Opinion
This is a response to Kristin Stegley’s (The Age Sep 17th) and the Age editor’s (Sep 3rd) articles. I respect their positions and I respect the opinions expressed.
However, I do not support The National Trust and Melbourne Metro Council’s heritage protection orders going onto on individual homes if the owner is in disagreement.
Background
What is [...]
BY MAL JAMES 2019
Estate Agents are solving homelessness just like people solved polio, road toll and guns
Well done Kay and Burton, Marshall White,
Jellis Craig, Fletchers, Nick Johnstone,
Greg Hocking and Buxton
28,000 Melburnians are homeless – how many is that?
For every working Melbourne agent, there are two homeless people? OMG! Evidence
Good news: Estate Agents REDUCED 253 evictions with early intervention phone calls
253 [...]
BY MAL JAMES 2018
As of 2018 $5,000 from each Seller Advocacy job is donated to 11climbers.org. The money donated will go towards alleviating Melbourne Homelessness and increasing the number of life changing surgeries for African young people. The balance of any fees will go to James Buyer Advocates.
Giving is the most selfish thing I do – it gives [...]
BY MAL JAMES 2018
The market has changed and so have we at James Advocates.
When 67% of homes are not selling at an auction.
When you spend $30,000 on advertising for a failed auction and all that’s achieved is
you’ve told everybody what your home is not worth.
When the market has changed but your selling agent hasn’t, isn’t it time to [...]
BY MAL JAMES 2018
Divorce, the Children and a Better Way.
This is an ongoing part of our multi-generational living series.
If the unhelpful events of Canberra of this past week have reminded us of anything – it is that the sum of divided individuals is far less than the value of a united group.
It’s exactly what happens in a divorce when it comes [...]
BY MAL JAMES 2018
At James Buyer Advocates we are looking to help younger homebuyers where we can.
We now believe in a PAUSE in rapid population growth through immigration (family reunions excepted) from 2020 to 2025/2030?
Why? We would like to see our community have a discussion and consider infrastructure solutions to better house our young people, who already live here.
When our community thinks it’s right to [...]
BY MAL JAMES 2018
Looking to sell Off-market?
Most people know Mal and Gina at James Buyer Advocates because of the public homes they’ve bought, like
But you never see the many, many private homes they buy quietly and confidentially Off-market.
Lyall St Hawthorn, Black St Brighton, The Ridge Canterbury, Hodgson St Kew, Stanhope St Malvern x 2, Favril St Hampton, Grace [...]
BY MAL JAMES 2018
We are pleased to welcome James Hayward, who has been employed by James Buyer Advocates on a part-time basis, to take a very average Inner Melbourne site (irregular land size of just over 700 sqm, with two older style brick unrenovated buildings) and a very average Inner Melbourne family (arguments, stresses, hope and dreams) and bring them [...]
BY MAL JAMES 2018
Week One:
Value is not a number, it is a feeling.
Price has no emotion, no conjecture, it’s factual.
Price is not value and value is not price.
I buy a number of family homes for people – perhaps more than anybody else in Melbourne, perhaps not – and at some point in the client and buyer advocate discussion [...]
BY MAL JAMES 2017
Sellers can now advertise any price they like (no matter how low) and call it not a quote, but a reserve – refuse any buyer offer above that figure at anytime and the Consumer Affairs Victoria state in print (The Age) the seller and their agent are immune from prosecution.
Dear Premier, Mr Daniel Andrews and Consumer Affairs Victoria,
On Sunday on national [...]
BY MAL JAMES 2017
The Block Underquoted and Consumer Affairs Victoria condoned the behaviour
Press Release James Buyer Advocates
Mal James
mal@james.net.au
0408 107 988
The Andrews Government said they would look out for Melbourne home-buyers and after a genuine attempt with the new Underquoting laws in May 2017, we are now firmly back to the bad ól days before 2017.
Many of us saw [...]
BY MAL JAMES 2017
Stonnington’s own residents are being heavily impacted by Stonnington’s “one-off, one-out (random)” Heritage Strategy.
It’s the “one-off, one-out” that is the key.
It’s the implementation of strategy, not the overall policy, that is hurting the Stonnington Community.
Welcome to the third of three articles on a Heritage War happening in your neighbourhood.
Your real enemy is your council’s Heritage Strategy; not [...]
BY MAL JAMES 2017
1. Be Picky – Correct Assessment and Positioning is unforgiving and crucial
We assess 30 to a 100 homes every week – we buy 2.
Initial James Home Rating typical for an EOI – 23 Hill Street Toorak
Click below to go to report
2. Its crucial to get the full offering
4 times more homes over $4,000,000 are bought outside the auction hammer [...]
BY MAL JAMES 2017
NOTE 17.6.17: This article was confirmed and published 3.6.17. Withdrawn 6.6.17 when we became aware of new information and remained so until 17.6.17 when we republished with new information.
This story is now different from the original article published in good faith, however a lot of the gist of it remains true – except that the winning bidder of [...]
