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Pity today’s property-buyers. Especially those battling to buy their first home. If they want to buy in one of the Eastern capitals – especially Melbourne and Sydney – they face multiple obstacles, the worst being rapidly rising prices…

Every day, home-owners ask us to find a good agent. They want us to watch over their sale process to make sure they get a good result – in price and in commission…

In 1972, I was an office boy in a real estate office in Yeppoon, a Central Queensland coastal town. The area had been booming for years. But, for me, it was too late. I had missed my chance…

In these days of escalating prices, things keep getting tougher for home-buyers. But when a home sold in the Gold Coast hinterland the other day, the owners gave the buyers a generous discount…

Denise Brailey is the most famous ‘unknown’ woman in Australia. But, to those who do know her, she is their hero, the Florence Nightingale of real estate and finance…

For years I have been saying it: Most home-sellers under-sell their homes. They lose tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars. On high-priced homes, sellers can under-sell their homes by millions of dollars…

Some agents are deliberately delaying the sale of homes to suit their own agenda. They are “using” the sellers and, in doing so, causing sellers’ homes to sell for lower prices…

This is a story of two different couples who each invested in property at the same time (2010) with vastly different results. The first couple bought a property for $1.9 million…

Cooper is 21-years-old. Last Saturday he bought his first home – an apartment in the North-western Sydney suburb of Kellyville. His parents are so proud. To have saved $70,000 for a deposit is a grand achievement for any young man…

These days, many home sellers are paying thousands of dollars to ‘STAGE’ their homes. But is this money necessary? Does it increase the selling price? Well, sometimes, perhaps…