Buyer Solutions scores 99.36% for customer satisfaction
We are very pleased to announce that Buyer Solutions scores 99.36% for customer satisfaction in 2019. The judging process for the 2019 Australian Achiever Awards for Australia’s Real Estate Services category was completed on 12th of June and Buyer Solutions scored a highly recommended 99.36%. Now into its twenty-second year, the Australian Achiever Awards are […]
Trick or Treat? Melbourne Property Market Now
Trick or Treat? Melbourne property market now is offering both. Patchy, erratic and all over the place. Just the way we like it at Buyer Solutions and not at all what we have come to expect in the raging market conditions that prevailed in 2016 and 2017. Property buyers could find this confusing and comments […]
No ‘Bricks and Slaughter’ in Hawthorn
I need to speak on the recent article by 60 Minutes entitled Bricks and Slaughter. Personally, I think it made incorrect generalizations about the future of the property market. In fact, other media outlets share our view. The property market moves at different speeds at different times depending on what and where you are buying. […]
Rent fair? Changes are coming to the Residential Tenancies Act in Victoria
Rent fair? Changes are coming to the Residential Tenancies Act in Victoria. Parliament voted through these changes late on the 6th of September, 2018. So tenants, landlords and property managers get ready for 130 changes that will affect your relationships going forward. At the latest, this will be introduced in July, 2020 but I expect […]
Buyer Solutions Finalists in the Australian Small Business Awards 2018
Announcing Buyer Solutions finalists in the Australian Small Business Awards 2018 in the Champion Real Estate Agency category. Of the eighteen finalists, Buyer Solutions was the only agency from Victoria in the national list. This is the largest awards program for small business in Australia. “The Small Business Champion Awards is a celebration of small business […]
Buying better with Buyer Solutions
Buyer Solutions bought on prestigious St Kilda Hill last weekend. Interestingly, in this tightly held pocket of Melbourne real estate, two almost identical Art Deco style one bedroom properties were offered for public auction only two hours apart. The first without car parking sold first at 11 am for $530,000. The second had car parking and […]
Iconic Richmond Fire Station for sale
On December 3rd the former Richmond Fire Station at 131 Lord Street will be auctioned by Jellis Craig Richmond. Still standing in its original condition the Fire Brigade Station was designed by John Augustus Bernard Koch, an architect who practised in Richmond and Hawthorn and designed over sixty buildings for the City of Melbourne in […]
Illegal Demolition of Carlton Pub
When you think of the city of Melbourne, beautiful tree lined streets, the Yarra, abundant parks and a very distinct architectural aesthetic come to mind. Our unique metropolitan landscape is peppered with heritage listed sites which exemplify bygone eras and celebrate our city’s cultural legacy. If it wasn’t for governing bodies like the Heritage Council […]
Buying new and off the plan
As a professional buyers agent, I regularly receive offers from local property developers and real estate agents for recently released new or off the plan properties. I recently received this offer via email and it provides a good example of the types of inducements that are used to encourage unsuspecting property buyers into a property […]
Australian population hit 24 million people
Today the Australian population hit 24 million people. Melbourne is Australia’s fastest growing city and as a frequent traveller on both Melbourne’s roads and public transport I say that infrastructure investments have been inadequate to cater for this growth. Our clients in suburbs all over Melbourne tell us that if they don’t get to rail […]