Sydney’s Rising Manhattan Effect
2015 McGrath Report: Infrastructure unlocks suburban growth 2015 McGrath Report: Melbourne market goes from strength to strength 2015 McGrath Report: Sunshine State Overview 2015 McGrath Report: Sydney’s big boom 2015 McGrath Report: Best suburbs to buy in John McGrath: What’s the price? In our 2015 McGrath Report, we released some specially commissioned research showing Sydney’s […]
Infrastructure unlocks suburban pockets
2015 McGrath Report: Melbourne market goes from strength to strength 2015 McGrath Report: Sunshine State Overview 2015 McGrath Report: Sydney’s big boom 2015 McGrath Report: Best suburbs to buy in John McGrath: What’s the price? John McGrath: Choosing an investment location In preparing the 2015 McGrath Report, we wanted to look forward and consider the […]
Melbourne market goes from strength to strength
2015 McGrath Report: Sunshine State Overview 2015 McGrath Report: Sydney’s big boom 2015 McGrath Report: Best suburbs to buy in John McGrath: What’s the price? John McGrath: Choosing an investment location In last week’s column, we covered what’s happening on the ground in Brisbane, as reported in our recently released annual McGrath Report. This week, […]
Sydney’s big boom
2015 McGrath Report: Best suburbs to buy in John McGrath: What’s the price? John McGrath: Choosing an investment location Following my previous column in the recently released McGrath Report on the national market and macro factors influencing Australian real estate, I’d now like to spend the next few weeks drilling down on the local trends […]
The best suburbs to buy in
John McGrath: What’s the price? John McGrath: Choosing an investment location In our recently released 2015 McGrath Report, which documents not only what’s been happening in Australian real estate (and particularly the Eastern Seaboard) but we also look at the important trends we see shaping the broader national market over the next five-to-10 years. Over […]
The right time to sell
Picking the right time to sell is always a difficult art to master, and if you’re selling — or thinking of selling — in Melbourne or Sydney at the moment, chances are you’re quite excited about the current market conditions. And you have every right to be. There’s no doubt about it — it’s a […]
What’s the price?
There was some press last year regarding properties and price guides — or rather, the lack of price guides. Look on the internet or in the papers and some properties will have either a set asking price (i.e., $730,000) or a price guide/range (i.e., ‘Over $700,000’) and the rest will have POA (price on application), […]
Reality check on reality TV
This year’s The Block TV show was a huge success, culminating with the Gold Logie for its host, Scott Cam. As you recall, all four luxury apartments in O’Grady Street, Albert Park, sold under the hammer for way beyond their reserves, with rookies Steve and Chantelle taking out the top prize with a sale price […]
Sellers choose auction
In the current hot Sydney market, more vendors are choosing to sell via auction to take full advantage of today’s exceptionally strong demand. Figures reported early in February showed a 40 per cent jump in auction listings compared to the same time last year*. Most Australians are intimidated by the auction process and it’s easy […]
The value of a great auctioneer
A skilled auctioneer will make the difference between a good sale and an exceptional one. Auctioneers are a critical part of the auction sales process — their role is to create excitement and confidence among buyers and maximise the sale price for the vendor. Auctioneering requires a lot of skill. You can’t simply sit in […]