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Home-sellers be warned. When negotiating commission with an agent, there are three mistakes most sellers make. Each mistake can be very costly – amounting to tens of thousands of dollars…

If you are selling your home in 2022, this is a brief article you must read. It will likely add tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of dollars to the sale price of your home…

If you plan to have anything to do with real estate in 2022, your first goal should be safety. The real estate world is a dangerous place. Most people who enter this world get ripped-off or emotionally traumatised. Or both…

The author Earl Nightingale once told how the famous philosopher, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, on a visit to London was asked by a journalist: “What’s wrong with people today?”…

It’s happened to all of us. You’re outside on a beautiful day, soaking in the atmosphere, feeling good to be alive. Suddenly, it’s dark. As if someone turned the brightness down 80 per cent…

Real estate agents who describe themselves as “the best” are the worst when it comes to looking after home-sellers. Not all of them, of course. But certainly, most of them…

When choosing agents, sellers tend to pick the agent who charges the cheapest commission. This can be a costly mistake. On the surface, it seems reasonable to choose an agent who offers the lowest commission…

If you are selling a home and an agent is asking you to pay money up-front for “marketing costs,” here’s a message for you: Don’t pay. Find a better agent…

If you watched the final of the 2021 season of Channel 9’s top-rating show, The Block, here’s what you would have seen. Five couples had worked hard over twelve gruelling weeks, building, and renovating five different homes in the Melbourne suburb of Hampton…

This morning something unusual happened to me. I saw a property on-line that, in my opinion might be a great investment…