BY Mal James 20th May 2017
This week in James Market News:
Continuation of the James 3-Week 100 Auction Challenge
Inside James
Auction Action
Call for Good Quoting Nominations of Agents
At 6.00pm Saturday, the overall Inner Melbourne $M+ market results were a Family Home Clearance Rate of 88% on the 33 Inner Melbourne $M+ auctions we covered, combined with a James Bidderman (bidders per auction) @ 2.2 [...]
BY Mal James 13th May 2017
Happy Mothers Day to all our Mums – the real home decision makers.
This week in James Market News:
Market Commentary – Three-week Challenge of 100 reported auctions
Auction Action – 33 auction results
Inside James – buy-then-sell service and Mal’s auction observations
At 6.00pm Saturday, the overall Inner Melbourne market results were solid, if you just look at the Clearance [...]
BY Mal James 6th May 2017
WOW, what a week in Inner Melbourne!
Last Friday we had one active negotiation and by yesterday, we had eight.
This is contrary to the talk of a tanking market so in our opinion piece this week, we examine closely the “evidence” used by The Australian to support their ‘Housing prices to drop 7%’ headline. You be [...]
BY Mal James 18th March 2017
It’s 6.00pm Saturday and the James Clearance rate for $M+ Inner Melbourne is still a very strong 83% on the 29 Auctions we covered today.
However James Bidderman, that is bidders per auction, was only 2.1.
What does this mean?
Well it may just be a statistical anomaly – we had a lot of bought befores and we record [...]
BY Mal James 26th November 2016
Welcome to our 2016 Bumper Christmas Edition.
In this, our last article for 2016 – the key to good sex, nothing about that American bloke and a segment on how to get $70,000 for free every year.
Plenty of positives, but apologies we don’t seem to have any fake news!
And to the Inner Melbourne Market.
Wow, what a finish [...]
BY Mal James 30th July 2016
Hello and welcome back to James Buyer Advocates Marketnews.
A few auctions of note today on very small numbers as the market awakes from its traditional Winter auction slumber. We have covered 19 in our reporting; Bidderman was 2.4 bidders per auction and the $M+ James Clearance rate was 74% – even though a small sample, we think it’s an [...]
BY Mal James 30th April 2016
The Inner Melbourne market is showing a return to normality as evidenced by a healthy, but not stratospheric clearance rate of 68 today.
Having said that, there is a feeling of subdued excitement amongst agents (listing ok for June) and buyers (Bidderman 2.5 on big stock numbers today) as sellers appear to be coming out of hibernation [...]
BY Mal James 20th February 2016
(Above and below) 160 people witnessed this architectural masterpiece (working from a low base to a state of brilliance – Steve Domoney Architecture) sell under the hammer for $4,160,000. James Tostevin and 3 bidders. Google our James Home Rating – 2a Harcourt Street, Hawthorn East to read our detailed thoughts.
Excuse me what did I read above, James Bidderman 3, James [...]
BY Mal James 21st November 2015
Special Edition – James International Demand Report for Inner Melbourne $M+ housing
Today we have ditched our across Melbourne auction coverage and focused on assessing the change (if any) to International Demand within the Melbourne Property Market.
James Bidderman, Bayside, Stonnington and clearance rates have been sidelined, so as we could focus almost all our resources on assessing [...]
BY Mal James 14th November 2015
The market is not as bullish, as urgent, or as downright insane as it was from February to May, even June of this year.
Is this really a true statement?
In many cases we are 20% above the start of the year. Is the market’s outward intensity less about dollars and bidding and more about that, we [...]
BY Mal James 24th October 2015
It is important to note that we deliberately focused on the high-end today, as it is the canary in the gold mine. The Top End is where you will see the change (if any) first, as this current market is a Top End driven market. The Top End traditionally has the least depth of any [...]
