BY James Buyer Advocates 21st June 2014
At 6.00 pm on Super Saturday, the James Clearance Rate for Melbourne’s $M+ property was 63% on the 27 auctions we covered. The Weekly Review Bidderman, our bidders per auction measurement, was at 1.8. Both figures are down on last week.
In contrast to last week’s strong results and high number of bidders, we were [...]
BY James Buyer Advocates 14th June 2014
At 6.00 pm on Super Saturday, the James Clearance Rate for Melbourne’s $M+ property was 79% on the 28 auctions we covered. The Weekly Review Bidderman, our bidders per auction measurement, was at 2.9. Not only is that higher than we’ve seen in a long, long time (we’ll have to check our records) it is [...]
BY Mal James 17th May 2014
At 6.00 pm Saturday, the James Clearance Rate for Melbourne’s $M+ property was 76% on the 34 auctions we covered. The Weekly Review Bidderman, our bidders per auction measurement, was at 2.2. Both measurements are solidly up.
Overall Summary of Melbourne’s Million Dollar Plus Auctions:
Ducks ($M+ auctions with no bidders) 16%
Lone Rangers ($M+ auctions with one [...]
BY Mal James 8th April 2014
Record Midweek Bayside – Wow!
If ever you were not that sure about the A-grade home market, just attend a WOW auction with a great agent (Kate Strickland). In Bayside last week (Thursday) new records were set for the suburb at 41 Binnie Street, Brighton East (it was a great home and we were unfortunately the under-bidder – [...]
BY Mal James 5th April 2014
At 6.00pm Saturday, the James Clearance Rate for Melbourne’s $M+ property was 76% on the 33 auctions we covered. The Weekly Review Bidderman, our bidders per auction measurement, was at 2.2. (Note that we have included an auction from Thursday night.)
This weekend the market continued on its merry way – lapping up WOW homes and [...]
BY Mal James 15th March 2014
With the break in traffic due to last week’s long weekend, how did we finish up this weekend after the shaky Second Super Saturday a fortnight ago?
At 6.00pm Saturday the James Clearance Rate for Melbourne’s $M+ property was 66% on the 35 auctions we covered. The Weekly Review Bidderman, our bidders per auction measurement, was at 1.7
Overall Summary [...]
BY Mal James 14th October 2013
Week Ending Saturday, October 26 – Super Saturday!
It was a huge day across Melbourne and it really felt solid out there. It was solid in terms of everything.
Have a look at the dials on our front page. They’re all in the red zone. Bidderman was an amazing 2.3 on the biggest $M+ auction day [...]
BY Mal James 19th September 2013
The first week of September was all about the Federal Election. Auction activity returned to full swing on September 14. There were four auctions in Melbourne over $3m. See details below.
Week Ending September 14, 2013
Biggest Auctions:
Toorak, 10 Yarradale Road, Tim Derham (Abercromby’s), under hammer, $4,840,000, 4 bidders
80 or so are comfortably gathered in the backyard [...]
BY Mal James 14th September 2013
At 6.00 pm on Saturday the James Clearance Rate for Melbourne’s $M+ property was 81% on the 36 auctions we covered. The Weekly Review Bidderman, our bidders per auction measurement, was 2.3.
Ducks (no bidder auctions) –18%
Lone Rangers (1 bidder auctions) – 13%
Norms (2-3 bidder auctions) – 45%
Volcanoes (4+ bidder auctions) – 24%
Another win to the Norms!
Market
This [...]
BY James Buyer Advocates 17th August 2013
The market continues to perform well and on my regular chats with agents the feedback is very positive. Interestingly, the clearance rates at the bigger firms for auctions are more often than not exceeding the average clearance rate.
This week we continue the focus on the $3 million plus Boroondara market.
Among the recent activity at this [...]
BY Mal James 17th August 2013
Week Ending Saturday, August 31
Biggest Auctions:
Toorak, 6 Heymount Close, Justin Long (Marshall White), under hammer, $4,050,000, 3 bidders
Justin Long backed up from success across Toorak Rd to auction this 1970s SJB home in a quiet and well manicured Toorak cul de sac…(See More in Auction Report)
Armadale, 134 Kooyong Road, Mark Wridgway (RT Edgar), [...]
BY James Buyer Advocates 10th August 2013
We had been looking forward to the auction of 155 Clarke Street Northcote (Luke Sacco, Nelson Alexander), a home we rated 659/1000 and one of the strongest looking properties I’ve seen for a while. I was quite taken by this property with its link to the past, yet well renovated for the future. However, unlike the [...]
BY James Buyer Advocates 25th May 2013
One auction we were looking forward to this weekend in the inner north-west was 19 Richardson Street in Essendon (Christian Lonzi, Frank Dowling Real Estate – Essendon). This is a grand looking home, although not overly large, but it was well-renovated and had a lovely feeling. It lacked an ensuite and the flats to one [...]
BY Mal James 24th May 2013
Week Ending 18th May
Off-Market Special
This week, with the quality $M+ market continuing to move ahead strongly, we are looking at an increasingly large part of the market – the Off-market sector.
Off-market transactions are transactions that take place without any advertising, without big glossies in The Age or without any internet presence. Consequently you won’t see [...]
BY James Buyer Advocates 18th May 2013
Over the past week we have been involved with two extremely good period properties – a perfectly renovated single-fronted home in Fitzroy North and an imposing double-storey terrace literally opposite Edinburgh Gardens, also in Fitzroy North. Andrew Simondson (Collins Simms) did a good job at managing the sale of the terrace that resulted in two [...]