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One Election, Big difference A lot of political water has passed under the economic bridge since the May 2019 Federal election. The feeling is that Sydney’s real estate market is enjoying something of a honeymoon. Looking back, we can see that from the beginning of 2019, the economy and the real estate market were in a holding pattern. In February, Sydney’s overall … Read the full post »

The Tipping Point At first, we thought our predictions for 2018 had been overly cautious: the first quarter of 2018 started off promisingly, with auction clearance rates holding steady at around 60% and climbing to a peak of 67% in April 2018. Then, in July, the tipping point was reached and the clearance rate dipped, finally falling below 50% … Read the full post »

Going South It’s hard to believe that half of the year has almost passed and we’re now looking forward to Spring and longer, sunny days. It’s as good a time as any to take stock of the past six months. Needless to say – given what we do for a living – Sydney’s property market has been the centre of our social conversations and I have to … Read the full post »

In Retrospective What a year! By any standard, 2017 was a dizzying ride for the Sydney real estate market, with events that took even seasoned veterans by surprise. Here’s what we saw. In early May, when Rosalie and I went overseas on a family holiday, we left a booming market. Our last auction was a cute little semi in … Read the full post »