BY Mal James 16th May 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 16th May 2020
How was your week? To be frank, I have really liked a lot about our Covid-19 time. There has been more time, my mind is clearer and my focus more meaningful. Relationships for me are better and I love my work even more.
Executive Summary
Its 6.00 pm Saturday – what a week
Street Auctions are back
Marketnews Multi [...]
BY Mal James 10th May 2020
This may have been the last of my regular, really long, walks for a while.
It’s 6.00 pm Saturday and what a change in outlook this week from last week.
We have moved from pause Pre-Easter, to part-time Post-Easter, to full-time from next week.
The phones are ringing again, meetings and walk through of homes are happening and [...]
BY Mal James 25th April 2020
Executive Summary: Improve our economic situation immediately at NO ADDITIONAL COST to governments through a property market improvement.
3 key components of actionable demand, as opposed to underlying demand where friction and barriers lie:
Belief,
Trust and
Money
3 property market lubricants – the WD-40 if you like – that will reduce friction/barriers thereby encouraging underlying demand to move to [...]
BY Mal James 21st March 2020
The Very Strong
4 bidders – Volcano – $4,322,500 – 23 Duke Street, Kew – Walter Dodich
This was a home we were intimately involved in the sale management of from start to finish and it was brilliantly sold by Walter Dodich. He priced it well, marketed it well and auctioned it well.
Whilst it got slightly more [...]
BY Mal James 23rd November 2019
Welcome to our final Marketnews in 2019. We have really enjoyed the year, hope you have. This is our Bumper Summer Edition.
Big Stat: Today only 1 in 10 auctions were tearaways!
ARMADALE, 17 Seymour Avenue. John Manton (Marshall White) Under the Hammer $3,570,000, 6 Bidders
GLEN IRIS, 3 Malvern Avenue. Daniel Wheeler (Marshall White) Under the Hammer [...]
BY Mal James 14th September 2019
Spring Summary
There is little confusion with the Inner Melbourne Spring market direction right now.
The reasons for this sudden, powerful and upward market directional change could be something temporary like an election afterglow, the Early Spring Pep or something more concrete like stock levels or the banks are lending again and the Asian market has returned. [...]
BY Mal James 18th June 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 4th May 2019
G’day
Mal James here. I wrote this piece as I wanted to. I have written about how I feel in this market and I’m not asking you to feel the same way.
So it’s ok to switch off now rather than wade through my mud, but there are some sprinkles of gold in here by the way!
Life is good
I love what [...]
BY Mal James 2nd February 2019
From all recent news reports, this year is going to be a “bad one” in property.
And by definition, a “bad one” is poor quality or not as hoped for.
We’re sorry, but we just don’t see “bad”.
We see the market, as we left it in 2018, a superior quality one – more sophisticated and better for [...]
BY Mal James 1st September 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 27th August 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 2nd June 2018
At 6.00 pm on Saturday we found the market, as we have found it all year; B and C Graders down – A-Graders mixed.
A-Grader, by our definition – right Position, right Property and right Price – good PPP‘s.
Overall, the market as we go into winter is still declining in its mood, interspersed with some strong results: such [...]
BY Mal James 21st April 2018
Contents:
1. Buy/Sell – 17 Chelsea Brighton, a work in progress
2. Bidderman – Under the Hammer
3. Round the Grounds with agents that know
We ask the questions of Campbell Ward, Mike Gibson, Nicole Gleeson and Andrew Campbell
4. Off-Market update
5. Doctor Home – Doctors, Surgeons, Dentists and Anaesthetists, your time to shine!
6. Population, Tax and Tenancy for the Young
Good home [...]
BY Mal James 21st April 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 [...]
