Most vendors spend more energy negotiating the the agent commission than they spend evaluating whether the agent can actually negotiate on their behalf.That instinct is understandable. Commission is the most visible cost of selling a house. Because it is expressed as a percentage of an unknown sale price, it often becomes the number vendors focus o

The gap between the lowest and highest appraisal on the same property is rarely small. Thirty thousand dollars. Fifty thousand. Sometimes more. And all three agents, when asked to explain their number, can point to comparable sales and adjustments that make their conclusion sound defensible. Which it often is.Most vendors assume that if the data is

Investors comparing Adelaide outer suburbs against established inner and middle ring markets tend to use the same analytical framework across both. Median trend, rental yield, entry price, comparable growth rates. The framework is not wrong. The problem is that land-release suburbs operate under a fundamentally different supply dynamic - and applyi

Interstate buyers researching Adelaide for the first time rarely arrive without assumptions. The assumptions come from whichever market they know best - the Sydney investor cycles and clearance rate swings, the Melbourne inner suburb premium and density dynamic. Those assumptions are applied to Adelaide and produce a picture that is partially accur

The Adelaide house price median is quoted in every suburb report, every agent appraisal, and every property news story as though it reliably reflects underlying value. It reflects something more specific - what sold, in what mix, at what point in time. The difference matters more than most buyers and vendors realise.It rarely does.What the Median A