What affordable means in the Adelaide property market has shifted enough over the past three years that buyers using a three-year-old definition are looking in the wrong places. The affordable Adelaide buying opportunity has migrated outward as the middle ring has repriced, and buyers looking for accessible entry points are now finding them in the … Read More

The property market in the Barossa Valley has undergone sufficient change over the past decade that a buyer or seller approaching it with assumptions from that period would be working with an outdated picture. The change is not simply a price level. It is a fundamental shift in who is buying, why they are buying, and what they are prepared to pay f… Read More

Property investment in Australia generates consistent buyer activity across most market conditions, and the confusion between the two primary assessment tools - the appraisal and the formal valuation - generates consistent problems for investors who mistake one for the other. The appraisal and the valuation serve different purposes, are conducted b… Read More

Most people who participate in the Adelaide property market carry a set of assumptions about it. Some of those assumptions are accurate. Others are wrong in ways that consistently cost the people who hold them. When the beliefs are wrong, the decisions built on them are wrong, and in a market where pricing and timing decisions have large financial … Read More

What buying property in Adelaide demands of buyers today is meaningfully different from what it demanded three years ago, and the buyers who have not adjusted are paying for it. A market that once allowed buyers to consider, revisit, and negotiate at a pace that suited them has been replaced by one where the window between first inspection and offe… Read More