BY Mal James 25th February 2017
Ferocious bidding on the right homes – despite this being the largest auction start to a year in Melbourne auction history – the market lapped it up, spat out a few and said ”feed me, feed me, give me more.”
At 6.00 pm the James Clearance Rate on Inner Melbourne Homes was close enough to 90% – yep [...]
BY Mal James 18th February 2017
The James Money Bin Competition
This year we are looking at trying to help the younger members of the community, make good decisions about buying homes and we want to hear what they have to say.
you own property, own the home
We have five opportunities to give away $1,000 through out the next few months.
The aim of the [...]
BY Mal James 11th February 2017
JAMES AUCTION REPORT: 29 Rubens Grove, Canterbury – one of the very rare Top End auctions today.
A big crowd of over 130 people gathered on both sides of this street today.
Presiding was our Auctioneer Doug McLaughlin. His preamble described a 1920’s home on 1066 sqm in a family friendly street which has already seen most [...]
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 23rd December 2016
INTRODUCTION
If I told you buying a home at the Top End is more about trust than money, would you believe me?
Maybe, maybe not.
Well this is a story about 3 homes involving strategy, dealmaking and truths at the Top of the Top End.
Towers Road, Toorak (Marcus Chiminello)
Bought 2016: James Home Rating 942/1000
Kooyongkoot Road, Hawthorn (Ross Savas / Jeremy [...]
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 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 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 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 Gina Kantzas 17th September 2016
Rock solid… Prices have flattened out over the past 12 months, which means buyers and sellers have a stable environment to transact at the moment. Tim Heavyside
I reckon the market is patchy. There is a nervousness about it. A bit like the start of a marathon race. Buyers are lining up ready to go but are [...]
BY Mal James 13th August 2016
What is starting to interest us, is the real change in what young people are looking for.
Young people are The New Downsizers – even before they’ve upsized.
Young people are the new downsizers in expectations, in mortgage commitments – $2m or $3m mortgages for many, are neither desirable nor manageable.
Many in the younger generation want to travel, [...]
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 James Buyer Advocates 14th May 2016
