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 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 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 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 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 [...]
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 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 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 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 [...]
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 [...]
