Photoshopping out the phone tower, throwing in the hamster, and nine other ways to make sure your home never sells. Written entirely in jest, from twenty years of watching.
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Our 2017 update: Mark Bouris and Yellow Brick Road joining as shareholders, a government innovation grant, and Domain backing down on its proposed price rises.
4th bedroom or home office – which has more selling power?
Three bedrooms and a spare room you can’t decide about. Whether it sells better as a fourth bedroom or a study depends on your suburb more than your taste.
Step by step guide how to sell your home online
Eight steps from tidying the house to settlement day, in the order they actually happen, with what each one costs and where people usually come unstuck.
How to write a real estate ad that sells your house
Long before anyone stands in your living room, they meet your house as a…
3 reasons why autumn is the best time to sell a house
Spring gets the attention, but autumn brings buyers who have finished thinking, fewer listings to compete with and weather that will not ruin an inspection.
DIY conveyancing – is it the right option for you?
Six questions to ask yourself before buying a DIY conveyancing kit: the time it takes, the paperwork involved, what you would really save, and how buyers tend to react.
The Australian housing market – what’s happening in 2017?
A snapshot of the Australian housing market as it stood in early 2017: apartment oversupply, Sydney and Melbourne still climbing, and the Victorian underquoting crackdown.
How to sell when you have the neighbours from hell
Their yard is a jungle, your house is for sale. The diplomacy playbook, campaign tactics that route around them, and the straight answer on what you must tell buyers.
How to use social media to sell your house
Social media won’t sell your house on its own, but it’s a free amplifier for the listing that will. A private seller’s playbook for Facebook, Marketplace and Instagram, plus a launch-week plan.
Top 4 tips for staging your home to sell
Napkins in wine glasses and cookies in the oven won’t sell a house. Four staging rules that actually work, from two stylists who do it for a living.
Underquoting: 5 tips to avoid becoming a victim
Underquoting is illegal and still common. What it looks like, what an agent’s actual obligations are, and what to do when you think you have been quoted a fiction.
How to present your home for sale when it’s stinking hot
Selling through an Australian summer: how to keep the house cool, get the smell out, and use the heat to show off the pool, the shade and the air conditioning.
Advertise on Realestate.com.au
You don’t need a traditional agency to appear on realestate.com.au. Here’s how listing through a flat-fee service works, step by step, and what it covers.
Preparing your home for sale – Home staging and home styling
A room-by-room checklist for presenting a property, from the cheap fixes anyone can do in a weekend to the bigger jobs that are worth it on the right home.
Real Estate in Melbourne
What agents charge in Melbourne, what the market has been doing, and what it costs to sell your Melbourne home yourself instead.
Real Estate in TAS
How selling real estate in Tasmania works, from the pro-forma contract and what a purchaser puts in an offer, to a Lenah Valley seller’s experience and our licensee on ABC Radio.
Price Advertising Rules
What you can and can’t put in the price field, state by state. The plus symbol, price ranges, “offers over” and the wording each jurisdiction bans.
Cropping, Resizing, and Rotating Photos
Photo too big, too small, or lying on its side? Here’s how to resize, rotate and crop your property photos so the portals accept them first time.
Will a For Sale Sign Help Your House Sell Faster?
The “silent salesman” still works. Why a For Sale sign is non-negotiable for a private sale, what a good one includes, and why quiet streets need signs most of all.
Should I display my address?
Hiding the street address feels safer, but it costs you buyers and it makes the map on your listing work against you. Here’s why we say display it.
14 things most real estate agents won’t tell you
Commission is negotiable, the buyer database is a museum piece, and the exclusive agreement binds you either way. What the industry would rather you didn’t read before listing.
Top 10 Mistakes Private Sellers Make
Ten things that cost private sellers time, buyers and money, from overpricing and missed calls to paperwork that is not ready when an offer lands on the table.
How to compare private selling companies: 10 crucial questions to ask
Ten questions to put to any private selling company before you hand over money, starting with the licence number and ending with getting the price in writing.