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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…

A Sydney agent who once sold my former family home has just written a book. And I am glad he’s done so. He did a good job selling my home and he’s done a good job writing this book…

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…