Forced sales in the Sydney property market – rich pickings for investors?
November 30th, 2011
In the search for buying opportunities, Curtis Associates, buyers’ agents in Sydney, noticed a trend which began in October 2011 in the number of Sydney residential and commercial and retail properties being advertised for sale by mortgagees, r
Read MoreBuyers beginning to win the arm wrestle in Sydney’s residential property market
October 31st, 2011Although auction clearance rates in the Sydney property market for October 2011 were broadly in line with previous months this year, there was an unmistakable sense around the auctions and in negotiations that buyers in the $1 million plus bracket we
Read MoreSydney property prices – trends 2011. Is there a change coming at the top end?
June 8th, 2011Towards the end of May 2011, the $2 million to $3 million bracket of the Sydney property market departed from the trends above $2 million discussed in CurtiseCall February 2011.This shift may signal an end to the confidence depleted mood which has in
Read MoreSydney’s residential property market over $1 million – don’t believe everything you read
September 30th, 2010
Talk this month of a softening in the Sydney residential property market belies what has been occurring in the auction rooms and elsewhere in the Sydney property market between $1 and $5 million. With spring in the air, continuing low interest rate
Read MoreWhat is really happening in Sydney’s residential property market over $1 million?
July 16th, 2010
As noted in the May 2010 edition of CurtiseCall, an autumn chill hit the Sydney residential property market which brought the pre Easter (2-5 April 2010) frenzy to a screeching halt.Has that chill turned to tundra or was it just the Sydney pr
Read MoreTrends at the top end of Sydney’s property market – a tale of two cities
November 1st, 2009
This edition of CurtiseCall looks at trends over the past six weeks in the eastern and northern Sydney prestige property market.In the shoot out between east and north, it has been a tale of two cities with the lower north shore suburb of Mos
Read MoreBuyer confidence returning to Sydney’s prestige property market
March 27th, 2009Coinciding with tentative good news coming from the US, some big money has changed hands since mid March 2009. Examples include $14 million for 8A Ginahgullah Road, Bellevue Hill; between $11.5 and 12 million for 22 Rosemount Avenue, Woollahra; $6.5
Read MoreSydney’s top end property market. A case of yes, no and maybe
March 16th, 2009
When our 6th February 2009 CurtiseCall described Sydney’s February 2009/ March 2009 prestige property market as a “vendors’ bluff”, we were not wrong. The Sydney prestige property buyers’ market ($1.5 million +) was publicly proclaimed
Read MoreVendors’ bluff. Sydney’s prestige property prices set to fall while danger looms at the other end of the Sydney property market
February 6th, 2009If the massive number of prestige residential properties hitting the Sydney property market since the end of the school holidays around 29 January 2009 is any guide, CurtiseCall may have been correct when suggesting in “Good riddance 2008. Market w
Read MoreCashed up and Contrary. Over $200 million worth of Sydney prestige property traded in five weeks
September 19th, 2008As we thought, the rumour of a new record price for Sydney prestige property that we reported in our 17 September 2008 article “The prestige property market in Sydney. Is now a time to buy?” was accurate. The confirmed figure is $47 million for
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