Buyer Beware – What You Need to Know About Garage Conversions
Buyer Beware – What You Need to Know About Garage Conversions By Janet Spencer Converting a garage into a room can be a great way of adding value to your property and getting extra space for an additional bedroom, living space or study or playroom. But, before you rush into it here are a few […]
Securing Your Kids Future – 12th of June
Do you have children and are you interested in securing your kids future? I have two young adult sons and so, its a topic dear to my heart. A lot of young adults believe that planning for the future is fairly pointless. They may need some strategies to encourage and provide confidence and should attend […]
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 […]
Exceptional sales result with Buyer Solutions Vendor Advocates
Yesterday we had an exceptional sales result with Buyer Solutions Vendor Advocates. With our Vendor Advocates you can be confident of receiving trustworthy, independent advice when selling. One of the most important financial transactions you will ever make is selling a home or investment property. Recently an investor with an acre of land for redevelopment […]
Finalist REIV Awards 2018
Later this week at the REIV Awards for Excellence the winners will be announced for 2018. I am honoured once again to be one of only four finalists for the REIV Buyers Agent of the Year category. A lot of hard work goes into even being eligible to apply for this award. We are in […]
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. […]
Why did a property sell 50% above the quote range?
Why did a property sell 50% above the quote range? Special value to a special buyer? Buyer Solutions team inspected a villa unit in Balwyn North last month in Corhampton Road. It was an unrenovated, modest unit with some good attributes. The client we were working for at that time didn’t wish to renovate and […]
Property finance crunch
There is a property finance crunch happening right now in 2018. We are hearing that loans are hard to come by after the Royal Commission into banking has forced change on lenders. The amount you can borrow is being impacted. Also, whether you can borrow may have changed. If you could have borrowed $1 million […]
Investing in property – capital growth or high yield?
Property investors need to ask “What’s more important when investing in property, capital growth or high yield?” Goal 1 – to create wealth – you need Capital Growth As an investor, personally I favor capital growth oriented assets. I want my investments to go up over time. My expectation is that an investment property should […]
“Victorian public housing waiting list at 82,000” says ABC News
“Victorian public housing waiting list at 82,000 and growing by 500 a month”, says ABC News. That’s a huge amount of people seeking accommodation assistance from the Victorian Government. The article advised that the Victorian Council of Social Service is seeking action to compel developers to provide a percentage of their projects for public housing. They […]