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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…

Real estate consumers: If only you knew what goes on behind-the-scenes in real estate…

Under the Crimes (Currency) act 1961, it’s a criminal offence to deliberately destroy money.
Even if it’s just a pendant, the law forbids you from drilling a tiny hole in a coin. ..