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In these supposedly cautious times, the lack of privacy in the real estate world beggars belief. Like so much in the real estate world, the privacy issue needs attention – in the form of stricter regulations, enforcement and penalties. Millions of consumers are at risk because of reckless disrespect for their privacy…

If you can design an effective plan for the sale of your home, you will get a much better price and pay far less in costs…

If all real estate consumers – sellers, buyers, or investors – hired a valuer before selling, buying, or investing, much stress, heartache and loss would be avoided. Sellers would lower their risk of underselling. Buyers would have more confidence. And investors would almost eliminate the chance of disaster…

False quoting is rampant in real estate. Most agents (about 90%) participate in false quoting. If they don’t, they will struggle to survive. Without false quoting, these agents would struggle to find houses to sell, and they would struggle to find buyers for those houses…

Sellers who demand too high a price usually end up selling for too low a price. They don’t realise it – especially at the start – but they severely damage the value of their homes by demanding too much when they first list their homes for sale…

Most Australians are dreadful at selling and buying real estate.
When they buy, they pay too much. And when they sell, they sell too low…

Last weekend (September 14, 2024), more than 2,300 homeowners offered their homes for sale by auction…

Every week inexperienced real estate consumers – home buyers, sellers, investors, tenants – make dreadful mistakes. Most mistakes are caused by two factors – the advice from agents (which is in the best interests of agents) and by the consumers’ naivety…

t’s one of the most infuriating aspects of today’s real estate world…

On Christmas Eve, I was walking with my 17-year-old son Alec. Next year, 2019, he was graduating from High School…