When a real estate agent quotes a fee, the conversation almost always collapses into a single number - the percentage. Two per cent. Two and a half. Occasionally less, occasionally more. The vendor hears the number, compares it mentally to what other agents have quoted, and makes a judgement about whether it feels acceptable. What they rarely do is

The question arrives quietly at first - usually triggered by a neighbour selling, a renovation completed, or simply a growing awareness that circumstances are changing. How much is my house worth is one of the most searched property questions in Australia, yet the answers people find online often create more confusion than clarity. What follows is

The decision to sell a house rarely arrives with much warning. It tends to emerge gradually - through a change in circumstances, a growing family, a job that has moved, or simply the recognition that the current property no longer fits the life being lived in it. What tends to happen next is where things go wrong. The homeowner calls an agent, gets

When a real estate agent quotes a fee, the conversation almost always collapses into a single number - the percentage. Two per cent. Two and a half. Occasionally less, occasionally more. The vendor hears the number, compares it mentally to what other agents have quoted, and makes a judgement about whether it feels acceptable. What they rarely do is

An investor who bought in the inner eastern suburbs in 2005 and held for fifteen years did well. But an investor who applied the same logic in 2018, paying a premium for inner-ring scarcity at peak prices, has a different story. The premium was real. The subsequent growth was not proportional to what was paid for it. This article examines what has