BY Mal James 7th October 2017
Contents October Market Start Edition
1. October Market Start
2. Inside James – An incredible story from Malvern East to Tanzania
3. Game Changer – Stonnington Heritage Reversal
It (usually) attracts more than a Grand Final,
a bigger array of stars than the Cup Carnival – the results are more telling than the Bathurst 500: that’s what Super Saturday, October 28th will represent to [...]
BY Mal James 26th August 2017
At 6.00pm Saturday, the overall Inner Melbourne $2M+ market results:
Family Home Clearance Rate of 81% on the 36 Inner Melbourne $M+ auctions we covered.
Combined with James Bidderman (bidders per auction) @ 1.7 on lowish auction stock numbers.
Is the market on a turn? As we said last week, for the first time in a long while, the ingredients [...]
BY Mal James 29th July 2017
G’day and welcome back to James Market News. Hope you all had a break from the Melbourne winter!
My break was with my youngest daughter, Maddie, in the Top End at Fitzroy Crossing, Kakadu and Kooljaman, Cape Leveque. Aboriginal people know a lot more about land and its value than many of us “new migrants”.
Hard to believe it’s been [...]
BY Mal James 3rd June 2017
NOTE 17.6.17: This article was confirmed and published 3.6.17. Withdrawn 6.6.17 when we became aware of new information and remained so until 17.6.17 when we republished with new information.
This story is now different from the original article published in good faith, however a lot of the gist of it remains true – except that the winning bidder of [...]
BY Mal James 29th April 2017
It was a quiet-ish day today on market – off market is a different story – the auction biggies for May starting in numbers the week after next.
At that time we will be focusing on James Bidderman (for any movement in demand) and any drop off from overseas buyers.
Has all the talk of late begun to bite?
This [...]
BY Mal James 22nd April 2017
In James Market News today:
Under Quoting – Only 8 more sleeps to go
Todays auction action
Off Markets
Chris Richardson from Access Economics – Opinion
Big Changes Part 2 – zoning and $700,000 difference on one block
With the Easter break, very few auctions today, most of the activity is off market.
We expect it be the same again next week, before we burst [...]
BY Mal James 12th April 2017
Welcome to Part 1, of the James Big 3 Reports on the changes in the $2M+ inner Melbourne market. In Part 1, we discuss the first change, under quoting.
Parts 2 and 3 will be published in the coming weeks.
On May 1st 2017, we will hopefully be entering a new era; one that will make our [...]
BY Mal James 25th March 2017
It’s 6.00pm Saturday and the James Clearance rate for $M+ Inner Melbourne was 78% on the 23 Auctions we covered this weekend.
Bidderman was back hovering where it has been for several years now – at 2.7 bidders per auction and on big auction numbers – meaning whilst 151 bidders bought, there were still another 313 bidders [...]
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 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 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 12th November 2016
Its 6.00pm Saturday and the James Clearance rate for $M+ Inner Melbourne is 88% on the 26 Auctions we covered today.
James Bidderman, that is, bidders per auction, is 2.8.
Super Strong.
Big numbers of bought befores and look at the Volcanoes 48%. That means every second auction had 4 or more bidders and how about this; there were 15 bidders [...]
BY Mal James 22nd October 2016
Welcome to our 3 Part Series on Negotiation
Part 1 – Negotiation Noise
Part 2 – What’s Really Important in a Negotiation
Part 3 – How to Negotiate Well
Hey you, what would you know about negotiation?
You’re reading this article because you’re desperate to pick up a free morsel from me; the master, who has already beaten over a [...]
