The traditional real estate agent is under attack from the left and the right. On the one hand, companies such as Buy My Place are teaching consumers how to sell without a real estate agent. On the other, UK outfit Purple Bricks hit Sydney in recent times to offer home […]
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Suburbs where homes are such hot property they sell in days These are the suburbs where property is snapped up in a heartbeat. SOME property is so hot right now. It takes an average of 36 days to sell a home in one the country’s capital cities, but in some […]
An empty property is every landlord’s worst nightmare. So what can you do to help avoid rental vacancy? Meet the market on price “A property simply won’t appeal to tenants if it’s priced too high,” says Tegan Murphy, residential property manager at Melbourne’s Wilson Agents. “Even reducing the rent by […]
Many property owners ask the wrong questions when looking at tenant applications, potentially turning away suitable tenants because they focus on irrelevant information. Asking for too much personal information or looking for tenants with a certain lifestyle is not only intrusive but could lead landlords to turn away potentially suitable […]