Commercial real estate and alternative property – trends and opportunities for savvy non institutional $5 million – $50 million property buyers looking for diamonds in the rough
November 15th, 2024
Commercial real estate (CRE) refers typically to three categories of revenue generating real estate which are office, retail/hospitality and industrial property.‘Alternative’ property refers to CRE falling outside those three categories s
Read MoreSydney’s expensive inner ring suburbs are now a buyers’ market – but not for long
September 30th, 2024
Read on to see why.The month just gone September 2024 was full of events relevant to Sydney property buyers including:escalating Middle East and European warfarethe US Presidential debate and campaignthe first drop in t
Read MoreTime for Sydney property buyers to shake off the cold
August 31st, 2024
Two rays of sunshine shone brightly through the cold and often inert August 2024 Sydney property market.One ray was the transformative extension of the Sydney Metro to include the Sydney and North Sydney CBD’s to be discussed in the months
Read MoreThe Housing Accord in NSW – off to a bad start
July 31st, 2024
This month we look at the NSW State Government’s performance in this the first month of the Federal Government’s Housing Accord target to build 75,000 well located and designed Australian homes in NSW each year until June 2029 and the broader
Read MoreSydney’s winter 2024 property market – a window of opportunity for astute buyers
June 28th, 2024
One word describes buyer and seller sentiment over the past few weeks: “uncertainty”.Apart from a few top end residential property buyers who aren’t holidaying overseas and some of whom are swapping properties between themselves (much t
Read MoreAutumn 2024. Lots to consider for Sydney property buyers.
May 13th, 2024
The macro market This is just a handful of the conflicting media extracts in the past quarter and just before tomorrow’s Federal budget:Bulls BearsAustralian Property Journal 1 April 2024 “Over February [2024] Australian house
Read MoreNSW buyers’ agents and conflicts of interest: not as portrayed by the ABC, much better than the USA but still needing urgent reform
November 30th, 2023
HistoryWhen we started as a Sydney buyers’ agent 17 years ago, the number of such agencies barely occupied one Google page.Today, that number equates to the number of years we’ve been in business.Hardly surprising therefore that w
Read MoreCollective strata sales and some tips when buying strata title
September 29th, 2023
In this, our second and last deep dive into some Sydney strata title properties, we discuss collective strata sales before looking at some of the many features both to look for and avoid when buying an existing strata title property. Collective st
Read MoreBuying strata title property in NSW – the need for urgent reforms
August 31st, 2023
When acting as a Sydney buyers’ agent for owner occupier or investor buyers of NSW residential and commercial strata properties, we prefer properties with scarcity value.Such value arises because of a building’s location together with oth
Read MoreWorking from home (WFH) – a symptom of, not a solution to planning failures and what it means for Sydney property buyers
July 17th, 2023
As Sydney buyers’ agents we have been monitoring this issue for several years. Only now, in this the second of our series of insights into macro and micro influences on the Sydney property market, can we give you our assessment of WFH’s impac
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