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 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 19th September 2019
Opinion
This is a response to Kristin Stegley’s (The Age Sep 17th) and the Age editor’s (Sep 3rd) articles. I respect their positions and I respect the opinions expressed.
However, I do not support The National Trust and Melbourne Metro Council’s heritage protection orders going onto on individual homes if the owner is in disagreement.
Background
What is [...]
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 11th December 2018
As of 2018 $5,000 from each Seller Advocacy job is donated to 11climbers.org. The money donated will go towards alleviating Melbourne Homelessness and increasing the number of life changing surgeries for African young people. The balance of any fees will go to James Buyer Advocates.
Giving is the most selfish thing I do – it gives [...]
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 28th July 2018
Welcome to the early beginnings of the Melbourne Spring buying and selling market.
Auctions start in a few weeks time.
This weekend’s James Market Insight, is the first in a series of three, about how you can best manage yourself in what’s to come.
Why manage yourself?
One: If you cannot manage yourself, then you dramatically increase your chances of [...]
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 28th April 2018
A-Graders are still selling! However, this was the only home we saw sell under the hammer today. There were 3 bidders at 2 Irymple Avenue, Glen Iris which sold for $2,750,000, John Morrisby.
Contents:
1. Under the Hammer
2. Is Now a Good Time?
3. Dr. Good Strategy
4. Around the Grounds – Auction Reports
5. Market Fresh – one-liners on 25 Top [...]
BY Mal James 17th March 2018
It’s 6.00pm Saturday and the James Clearance rate for $2M+ Inner Melbourne family homes, was a drifting down 69% on the 32 auctions we covered today, in the third and final week of our James 100 Auction 3-Week Test (Feb 24, Mar 3 and 17). The 3-week Opening Market Clearance Rate was 67%.
James Bidderman, that is bidders per auction, was 1.3 today. The [...]
BY Mal James 3rd March 2018
It’s 6.00pm Saturday and the James Clearance rate for $M+ Inner Melbourne was a drifting down 62% on the 34 auctions we covered today, in the second week of our James 100 Auction 3-Week Test. Last week it was 68%.
James Bidderman, that is bidders per auction, was 1.6, which continues the significant drop of the last four months and represents around a [...]
BY Mal James 2nd March 2018
Week One:
Value is not a number, it is a feeling.
Price has no emotion, no conjecture, it’s factual.
Price is not value and value is not price.
I buy a number of family homes for people – perhaps more than anybody else in Melbourne, perhaps not – and at some point in the client and buyer advocate discussion [...]
BY Mal James 24th February 2018
Welcome to our $2m plus auction season opener and the first weekend of our three weekend, James 100 Auctions Market Test; specifically designed to measure the true market temperature of higher end, Inner Melbourne Family Homes.
It’s 6.00pm Saturday and the James Clearance rate for $M+ Inner Melbourne was a middle of the road 68% on the 34 Auctions we covered today.
James Bidderman, that [...]
BY Mal James 28th October 2017
STOP PRESS 9.00PM SUNDAY NIGHT
Congrats to Josh and Elyse, great win on The Block and well done to all the other contestants.
I like watching The Block Grand Finale normally – but
Are you serious Scott, CAV, Frank and Nicole?
Was I watching a real show or Hollywood (where there are no rules)?
If there are no rules, what [...]
BY Mal James 15th October 2017
This weekend on one of the quieter October Auction Days, we were involved in two auctions – one we bought and one we missed.
We bought 307 Beaconsfield Parade, Middle Park (Simon Gowling), under the hammer with 2 bidders @ $6,370,000.
We missed 40 Berry Street, East Melbourne (Paul Caine), under the hammer with 2 bidders @ $4,550,000.
It was a [...]
