BY Mal James 27th May 2017
What is the market really doing?
We get asked this question daily so we decided to conduct a 3-Week, 100 Auction Report challenge during the month of May.
Well, there were no surprises! All three measurements showed that the Inner Melbourne market is in what we call “boom times”, but now, since 2008, increasingly what we call [...]
BY Mal James 28th January 2017
Clockwise visits today – no substitute for foot leather, listening, looking and listening again.
1st Slide
Clockwise from top left: Malvern East:$2.5m? – little cutie – no, not the agent John Manton – the house. Good crowds at the OFI.
Hawthorn: $4m? Off -Market or Pre-Market? – good family home. Crowds – Only one!
Armadale: $4m? Nice one – listening [...]
BY Mal James 17th December 2016
Beautiful Decisions – Buy/Sell
Welcome to our final series for the year – over the next three weeks we will try to highlight just how much is added to your life with beautiful decisions.
This final 2016 series is about getting the most out of buying and selling a home via a beautiful decision.
We are splitting the series [...]
BY Mal James 19th November 2016
Big day today for auctions and, despite the fact that this year we are dealing in more properties away from auction than at auction – as a company we were involved in nine today – I’m zonked.
We could not cover as wide a cross section of auctions (only 20) as it was all hands on [...]
BY James Buyer Advocates 19th November 2016
BY Mal James 15th October 2016
Its 6.00pm Saturday and the James Clearance rate for $M+ Inner Melbourne was 74% on the 23 Auctions we covered today – solid.
James Bidderman, that is bidders per auction, was 2.3 bidders per auction – also a solid number.
Interesting to note the spread across the board, at the Top End, was fairly even between ducks/lone rangers, norms and [...]
BY Mal James 5th March 2016
2016’s Opening Market is …..drum roll … Pumping…….Strong …….Rocking. There’s no doubt and no other way to really describe it. We’ve had three big auction weekends in a row, with today a virtual Super Saturday and the market has spoken.
2016 has started with a real bang. The only difference between 2016 and 2015 is the [...]
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 20th June 2015
6.00pm Saturday June 20th – Mid Term Report
Market is in wind down mode re new stock, as most good agents are beginning to break for winter school holidays. Next week is the last serious week of auctions, until early spring.
Any market read on any winds of change, won’t be meaningful until September, when larger numbers [...]
BY Mal James 31st May 2015
Inner Melbourne Values $3M Round Up (Start of May and Some Around Easter Sales of Interest)
As we kick into May and look back on April you can see the TOP END is still very healthy – sure some are not selling and some are being withdrawn but its not only Saturday Auctions that are getting [...]
BY James Buyer Advocates 22nd November 2014
Warehouses by Adam Gardner
While the numbers of new public listings is starting to slow down somewhat in the Inner Melbourne areas as Christmas approaches, there are still a number of properties that should garner some interest when they go under the hammer. In fact, the number of warehouse conversions on the market is significant at [...]
BY Mal James 29th September 2014
This week we have gone practical in the quest for a million dollar good home buying decision. This is a supplementary article to Article 5 on values in The Age, Weekly Review, James Buyer Advocates eight article series – Young Homebuyers Guide.
How do we put a number to our value opinion?
In today’s modern society we [...]
BY Mal James 29th September 2014
The Age. Weekly Review, James Buyer Advocates Young Homebuyer series is designed to take homebuyers through the entire homebuying process from the inside.
Today in our young buyer series we are talking about VALUES and how understanding the true nature of value will put a fair chunk of that promised $1,000,000 into your back pocket.
Apartment: In 2000 [...]
BY Mal James 21st September 2014
The Age. Weekly Review, James Buyer Advocates Young Homebuyer series is designed to take homebuyers through the entire homebuying process from the inside. The article series has become the biggest read online series of its type. It has been been published throughout Australia and internationally. It continues on from James Home Ratings – an industry standard in [...]
BY Mal James 13th September 2014
Week Ending Saturday, September 13:
Market Summary
The Market is splitting as it normally does when adjusting to the Spring Influx of properties.
This week the market has sent buyers and sellers two very clear messages.
If you’ve got a well priced, ready to move in home with some WOW in the $1m to $5m range, then you have [...]
