An investor who bought in the inner eastern suburbs in 2005 and held for fifteen years did well. But an investor who applied the same logic in 2018, paying a premium for inner-ring scarcity at peak prices, has a different story. The premium was real. The subsequent growth was not proportional to what was paid for it. What has shifted is not the des… Read More

Picture two buyers with identical budgets looking at the same suburb. One sees an affordable entry into the property market. The other sees a twenty-year commute, limited childcare options, and a street that floods every winter. The suburb did not change. What changed was what each buyer counted as cost. What follows is a practical framework for as… Read More

Most people spend more time researching a kitchen renovation than they spend preparing to sell their most valuable asset. When that decision does arrive, the instinct for most homeowners is to call an agent and start the process. What follows is a practical account of the decisions that shape a property sale, laid out in the order they actually occ… Read More

Most homeowners think about this question long before they decide to sell. It is one of the most commonly searched property questions in the country, and yet the answers most people find leave them less certain than when they started. What follows is a clear explanation of how market value is actually determined, what a professional appraisal invol… Read More

For most of the past two decades, the conventional wisdom on Adelaide property investment pointed firmly inward. Buy close to the city. Pay the premium. Benefit from the scarcity. It was a reasonable framework - and for a long time it worked. This article examines what has changed in the Adelaide investment property landscape, why the outer norther… Read More