People making property decisions in Adelaide after years in Sydney or Melbourne often bring the wrong framework with them. They apply a framework built in one market to a market that operates by different rules.Understanding the Adelaide market requires setting aside the eastern capital fram

Two suburbs can sit fifteen minutes apart and sell for prices that differ by two hundred thousand dollars. The explanation for that gap contains more useful market information than the median figures themselves.Suburb-to-suburb price comparison is a standard part of how buyers and sellers or

The median house price is the starting point for almost every property market conversation in Australia. It is repeated constantly and understood correctly far less often than it is used.Every month, data providers publish median house prices for suburbs, cities, and corridors across the cou

Pre-sale spending is a near-universal part of the selling process. A significant portion of what sellers spend before listing does not return at settlement. Some of what sellers spend before selling was never going to move the price in any meaningful way.Few things produce more disappointmen

Sellers typically know what percentage an agent charges long before they understand what that percentage actually means. That focus on the number rarely extends to what the number actually represents.Real estate agent fees in Australia are calculated as a percentage of the final sale price.