Price and affordability are not interchangeable terms in residential property - the distinction matters more than most buyers realise before they purchase. The difference between the two is easy to dismiss before purchase and difficult to ignore after it.Most buyers approach affordability as a question of purchase price when it is actually a questi

The most common mistake made by buyers and sellers arriving in Adelaide from eastern capital markets is carrying assumptions built in a different market. A framework built on eastern capital market behaviour is not the right tool for reading the Adelaide market.The Adelaide property market is not a smaller version of Sydney or Melbourne - it has it

Most sellers know the commission percentage before they know anything else about their agent. It gets asked in the first conversation and rarely examined beyond the surface.Agent commission in Australia is expressed as a percentage of the final sale price achieved. That percentage varies between agents, between agencies, and between states. The rea

Preparing a property for sale almost always involves some level of financial outlay. The relationship between pre-sale spending and sale price is not always the one sellers expect. Some of what sellers spend before selling was never going to move the price in any meaningful way.Seller spending and buyer willingness to pay do not always align - and

When most people ask what their home is worth they are expecting a definitive figure. The reality is a range informed by market data, interpreted through judgement, and subject to variation depending on who conducts the assessment.The question of what a house is worth sounds simple. The process behind answering it is not. Knowing what sits behind a