BY MAL JAMES 24th May 2013
Week Ending 18th May
Off-Market Special
This week, with the quality $M+ market continuing to move ahead strongly, we are looking at an increasingly large part of the market – the Off-market sector.
Off-market transactions are transactions that take place without any advertising, without big glossies in The Age or without any internet presence. Consequently you won’t see [...]
BY MAL JAMES 23rd March 2013
Week Ending 23rd March – We are now seeing
The A graders are having multiple bidders – look at the number of volcanoes
The B graders are getting mopped up – check old stock records
The C graders are being considered by those [...]
BY MAL JAMES 22nd February 2013
East Melbourne, 120 Powlett, Arch Staver, Under the Hammer, $5,155,000 – 4 bidders
There was a festive air along Powlett Street this morning as real estate punters strolled in and out of historic homes open for inspection in this proud and peaceful pocket of Melbourne. With a crowd of 150 gathering under magnificent trees on the [...]
BY MAL JAMES 21st November 2012
2012 Summary
The talk was all doom and gloom at the start of 2012 after a bad finish to 2011 by the market. This talk flat lined the Autumn market with basically no action whatsoever, save a surprising burst around Easter with 5 at $10,000,000 changing hands. We went into Winter in a downward spiral with [...]
BY MAL JAMES 27th October 2012
Super Saturday Week Ending 27th October.
The highlight for the week was 3 Bonleigh Avenue Brighton (away from Auctions) – Golden Mile waterfront at $6,500,000 or $8,643 per sqm.
Three things that impress about this Nick Johnstone sale
Nick Johnstone and his team are providing a fresh voice in Brighton real estate and please we just got knocked [...]
BY MAL JAMES 16th September 2012
Week Ending September 15th:
This Weekend with only 3 from 7 over $3m reported as selling before 6.00pm, we feel this shows the market is continuing to struggle on more offerings than not at the Top End.
9 Scotsburn Toorak (Justin Long) with 5 bidders fighting it out to $4,220,000 is a good case study. The result [...]
BY MAL JAMES 31st August 2012
Friday 31st August – 3 from Kay and Burton in Boroondara
Camberwell, 60 Broadway, Tim Picken – big land plus tennis court with a home that needed a lot of work. In excess of $4,500,000
Kew, 9 College, Sam Wilkinson, – great internal floor plan – Street and facade Mmmm – Ok. Just under $3,300,000
Canterbury, 31 Chaucer, [...]
BY MAL JAMES 31st May 2012
End of Autumn in a nutshell:
Some life at the Top of the Top End with sales over $7m under the hammer at Seacombe Brighton (John Bongiorno) and Mayfield Malvern (Gerald Delany) and through private sale at Domain South Yarra (Andrew Baines) and Hampden Armadale (Jeremy Fox). This follows on from last month’s 5 sales circa [...]
BY MAL JAMES 21st April 2012
Saturday April 21st: 22 South Road Brighton (Peter Hickey) Bought After $3,255,000
James Auction Report: Thought I would come to see the only $3m auction on offer today – that is if it is actually gets $3m+. Auctioneer Mark Earle strides out in front of a crowd of around 60 and launches into a synopsis of [...]
BY MAL JAMES 31st March 2012
Saturday March 31st: Solid finish to the month – partly as a result of vendors lowering their expectations as they feel the market may get worse before it gets better, partly due to some good stock and partly because buyers can’t really see anything of note on the market after Easter.
But to keep some perspective [...]
BY MAL JAMES 29th February 2012
As we come to the end of February most of the work we are involved in at this price level is off market or pre market – meaning not advertised or not yet advertised (and may not be). However two really good properties, currently beginning public selling campaigns (we have been through and rated), should [...]
BY MAL JAMES 27th November 2011
Monday 28th November – 57 Cole Brighton ( Peter Kennett of Hocking Stuart). A family home with some floor plan issues that has been on the market for sometime, has been bought after a few interested parties were gathered together in an Expressions of Interest Campaign and one person popped up over $3,000,000. We rated [...]
BY MAL JAMES 29th October 2011
October 29th: Excerpt from October 15th James Marketnews: Want a home with a Tennis Court in Toorak? Got around $6 million dollars? In the last week we visited, assessed and rated: 11 Scotsburn Toorak (Andrew Smith), 10 Montalto Toorak (Mike Gibson) and 25 Scott Glen Iris (Rae Tomlinson). All have tennis courts.
The Question: After [...]
BY MAL JAMES 24th September 2011
Week 4 September 24th: Overall market interest is down this week, best evidenced by the fact we had 30% less Marketnews readers on the Monday of this week than the past two month average (alternatively we may be just getting boring). While some new AFL coaches bobbed up, so have some interesting [...]
BY MAL JAMES 27th August 2011
Week 4 August 27 2011: Not a lot happened at auction in this market this weekend at $3M+, with the exception of 25 Kent Avenue – the action was all last week and it was away from the auctions.
Biggest Sale: 25 Kent Ave, Brighton, Leigh Hallamore (Buxton); After auction, $6,400,000, 4 bidders
Crowd numbers were high [...]
BY MAL JAMES 31st May 2011
Week Ending May 28th: Highlights were few and far between but seemed to be a Marshall White auction day in Stonnington.
Standout was 46 Elizabeth St Malvern with Justin Long and Rae Tomlinson
Camberwell 14 Royal Avenue with Geordie Dixon was bought we believe for just over $3,000,000
Toorak 37 Lansell which has been around for a [...]
BY MAL JAMES 30th April 2011
Week Ending 30th April: Back from a week or two off, this market now, has a fairly clear run till Christmas, with a only brief breaks for a couple of holiday weekends.
Over the next four to six weeks we should see more choice and some reasonable activity (although not expected anywhere near [...]
BY MAL JAMES 31st March 2011
Week Ending 19th March: Off Markets, Forthcoming Auctions and Expressions of Interest are increasing as market stock levels begin to rise dramatically
BY MAL JAMES 28th February 2011
Week Ending February 26th: If last week was the season opener for the $1m+ auction market, then this week was the beginning of the $3m+ auction market
BY CLARE HUGHES 26th February 2011
Week Ending February 26th: If last week was the season opener for the $1m+ auction market, then this week was the beginning of the $3m+ auction market and the main focus for this weekend’s report. We don’t have all this weekend’s numbers in yet, so it’s hard to call, but it [...]
