TRANSPARENCY IN REAL ESTATE There has been a lot in the real estate news in Victoria this week as the government plotted yet another change. Concern about transparency for buyers has been focused on how buyers react when they miss out on a house at an auction. Yes, underquoting still happens but I feel that…
BUYER DISSONANCE Success, you won the bid, your offer was the best, your home search is over. Watching other homes that were high on the list to pursue, happy because you were successful at auction and don’t need to worry about the nervous tension of being the winning bid (because you achieved THAT goal), and…
Consumer Affairs Victoria “Underquoting” Underquoting can occur when a property is advertised at a price that: Under Victoria’s underquoting laws, estate agents and agents’ representatives have obligations relating to: These laws complement the false and misleading representation provisions of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL). For more about the ACL provisions, see Advertising and representations. The…
DISCOVER MELBOURNE Melbourne, our beautiful city. Exploring Melbourne, our regional areas or even the Mornington Peninsula or the Dandenong Ranges is excellent on a day like today. It’s not hot, it’s not freezing cold and raining. Wandering around the City, jumping on the Circle tram, there is so much to do and see. Melbourne is…
JUNE 24TH 2024 – A WEEK IN MY LIFE THE WEEK THAT WAS, NEW CLIENT EXPECTATIONS Working with new clients it’s vital to set expectations right from the start. Each week throughout the campaign we have a meeting at the same time. Questions can be asked and answered, the relationship and levels of trust are…
A WEEK IN MY LIFE AND BUSINESS The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams Have you ever noticed when you are feeling blue that everything becomes difficult yet when you are feeling happy, the world glows and life is easy. Being grateful, saying thank you, celebrating the wins no…
A Week in My Life – July 15 2024 Creating a list and checking it twice. Sounds like something Father Christmas does but in reality when you are preparing to sell your TO DO list tends to get more added to it each time you check it. You want to paint, you need to take…
A Week in My Life, 8th July 2024 Each week I look at auction numbers, I find them fascinating. The other numbers I am spending time on currently are temperatures around and about our great state. If it’s 1 degrees here, what is it on the Mornington Peninsula, or in Mansfield, that kind of thing….
A Week in My Life, 1st July 2024 How are you coping with the Winter? I am feeling envious of my daughter Tam who has moved to Karratha in WA, It’s 17 over there and 1 here as I type! 1 degree and according to my phone, it also feels like 1. You may laugh…
A Week in My Life, 24th of June 2024 The more you do something, the more you learn. If you only do something once in a long while then the steps you need to take are not very clear. When we learn something, repetition, making the task familiar, makes it easier to remember. Most processes…