There are hundreds of buyers’ agents, how do I choose one that’s right for me?
July 30th, 2025You have to find a local buyers’ agent you can trust and one you feel has understood your property buying goals.Look at their online reviews to make sure you are dealing with a credible and professional buyer’s agent. Check out the clients g
Read MoreSpotlight on Sydney’s 2025 End of Financial Year property market – some surprising trends and a focus on the ‘known unknowns’
July 22nd, 2025
Welcome to the Curtis Associates End of Financial Year newsletter, summarising the year that was.It was tumultuous with geopolitical turmoil and overseas human carnage, domestic affordability constraints, private sector and labour market weak
Read MoreSydney’s property market 2025 First Quarterly Report – New year. New era.
April 9th, 2025
Overview 2025 got off to a flying start. Making up for an exhausting and early end to 2024, an army of Sydney buyers agents was back at the desk just after New Year responding to inquiries from more energised and confident buyers.In a trend bu
Read MoreCommercial 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
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