BY Mal James 13th 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 6th September 2014
At 6.00 pm on Saturday, the James Clearance Rate for Melbourne’s $M+ property was 74% on the 39 auctions we covered. The Weekly Review Bidderman, our bidders per auction measurement continued its impressive run at 2.4.
Overall Summary of Melbourne’s Million Dollar Plus Auctions:
Ducks ($M+ auctions with no bidders) 11%
Lone Rangers ($M+ auctions with one bidder) [...]
BY Mal James 6th September 2014
Over the next two months in James Masterclass (www.james.net.au), in association with THE AGE Domain and The Weekly Review, you will see as a young person how you can make decisions that will put a million dollars into your pocket by doing nothing other than simply making a decision. A good one that is.
Recap Week One.
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BY Mal James 30th August 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 James Buyer Advocates 23rd August 2014
At 6.00 pm on Saturday, the James Clearance Rate for Melbourne’s $M+ property was 70% on the 33 auctions we covered. The Weekly Review Bidderman, our bidders per auction measurement, was at a whopping 2.6. Only twice this year can we remember it higher. Sure it’s only one day, and maybe it’s the weather, but [...]
BY Gina Kantzas 23rd August 2014
Has Spring Arrived Early?
It felt hot out there today and indeed we felt the build-up during the last week or so.
Today we bought 2 at competitive auctions (low $1m’s and low $3m’s) bought at Off-market circa $4m, missed at one of the longest bidding auctions I’ve been to (at the mid $2m’s) and during the [...]
BY Gina Kantzas 9th August 2014
At 6.00 pm on Saturday, the James Clearance Rate for Melbourne’s $M+ property was 79% on the 29 auctions we covered. The Weekly Review Bidderman, our bidders per auction measurement, was at 2.1. Another strong result. We are still on low auction stock, but there is still a reasonable amount of oomph in the [...]
BY Gina Kantzas 9th August 2014
Inner City
People love these Inner City areas for their condensed urban profile, which is great for convenience and proximity to the city, but brings with it a different type of living. For example, buyers here are prepared to trade off the possibility of noise for the reward of being in the action. Car parking is [...]
BY Mal James 7th August 2014
Off-markets and the Duck Test
On the subject of off-markets, we buy a fair number – but we reject an awful lot more than we buy.
For the inexperienced buyer, many off-markets are not what they are cracked up to be (by the agents). A number of inexperienced buyers are lured by the romance of an off-market [...]
BY Mal James 2nd August 2014
At 6.00 pm on Saturday, the James Clearance Rate for Melbourne’s $M+ property was 77% on the 26 auctions we covered. The Weekly Review Bidderman, our bidders per auction measurement, was at 2.2.
This weekend’s first run of the high end auction market after a good spell in July saw a “strongish” start on limited [...]
BY Gina Kantzas 14th June 2014
Apartment Action – What’s it worth?
Most of us would agree that two similar houses in the same street normally sell for about the same price, so why doesn’t this happen with apartments? With the houses, we can see if the land is about the same size and, although the price may vary a bit to [...]
BY James Buyer Advocates 31st May 2014
There were mixed results last weekend, which was also a ‘Super Saturday’. Bidderman dropped to an average of 1.7 bidders per property and whilst this is not alarming (it is only the fourth weekend we have covered this year that has averaged under 2, and the other three were on lesser quality, low stock weekends), [...]
BY Gina Kantzas 31st May 2014
At 6.00 pm on Super Saturday, the James Clearance Rate for Melbourne’s $M+ property was 74% on the 39 auctions we covered. The Weekly Review Bidderman, our bidders per auction measurement, was at 1.9.
Next weekend there will be a break with the Queen’s Birthday weekend, leaving us only two auction weekends until the June/July school [...]
BY Mal James 18th May 2014
Lies or perceived lies are endemic within the Melbourne Property market. Many dinner party conversations include the “fact” that some real estate buying and selling agents are liars and whether that is true or not is irrelevant, as many people believe it to be so.
Lies can be very hurtful and we all want to avoid [...]
BY Mal James 17th May 2014
At 6.00 pm Saturday, the James Clearance Rate for Melbourne’s $M+ property was 76% on the 34 auctions we covered. The Weekly Review Bidderman, our bidders per auction measurement, was at 2.2. Both measurements are solidly up.
Overall Summary of Melbourne’s Million Dollar Plus Auctions:
Ducks ($M+ auctions with no bidders) 16%
Lone Rangers ($M+ auctions with one [...]
