Blog – Expert Tips & Insights on Real Estate

You can sell the day after settlement. Whether you should is a sum: buying costs in, selling costs out, and what the home is worth today. Here’s how to run it.

Sell first, build first, or both at once? The real trade-offs of each sequence, the finance options in plain English, and the settlement levers that make it all fit.

Selling the house and keeping the block is rare in Australia, but it does happen. Here’s the one scenario where it works, and what a removals company might pay.

Online auctions outlived the lockdowns that made them famous. How the live and timed formats work, what they honestly cost, and when they beat the front lawn.

One flat fee versus a five-figure commission: how fixed-price real estate agents work, the honest answer on whether the model costs you sale price, and how to pick a provider.

Commercial property is valued on the income it produces and on what similar properties have sold for. This guide explains the cap-rate and comparable-sales methods with worked dollar examples, how to value from rental income, and a simple way to sanity-check a figure yourself before you list or refinance.

Buyers open the dishwasher. Five things to do to a kitchen before an inspection, from the deep clean nobody enjoys to the small upgrades that are worth the money.

The sold price isn’t what you keep. Here’s what comes out of it (commission, legals, mortgage, sometimes tax) and a worked $700,000 example showing what’s left, agent vs private sale.

Keep the family home as a rental, or sell up and bank the gain? We lay out both sides plainly, including the CGT six-year rule most articles skip, so you can make the call that fits your numbers.

Australian homes are taking about six weeks to sell right now. Here’s the latest days-on-market data for every capital and region, the full timeline from listing to keys, and what speeds a sale up.

An empty commercial property costs you money every week. The full tenant-finding process: fit, pricing, advertising, vetting the business, and the honest options when nobody bites.

Leasing a shop, office or warehouse without an agent is more straightforward than most owners expect. Here’s the order of work, and what you take on yourself.

You don’t need an agency to reach the buyers; they’re all searching online. What selling your own home online involves, and how to pick the flat-fee provider that gets you there.

Four steps to a private rental agreement: find your state’s template, know which terms are implied and which you must spell out, choose fixed or periodic, then check it properly.