Melbourne Property Insights Archive | James Buyer Advocates

2026 Mid Year Melbourne Luxury Property Report

So Where Is The Market Now post Budget?

The market is weak, but feels like the falling may be flattening a little.

At the top end above $10 million; activity is extremely thin, if not non-existent.

At the lower end, around $1 million to $2 million, demand remains relatively strong for A and even B-Graders. C-Graders nope!

In the middle market the $3 million to $6 million space that we focused on this week; it is very precise.

How to Sell Your Home In This Market

Ruminators, Collaborators, Determinators

It’s been an interesting week.

Not dramatic. Not explosive. But layered.

A few small shocks. A few quiet wins.

Craig Tiley – 73 Nepean Highway Aspendale

Manners, ethics, decency. I know they are not trendy at the top levels of life right now, but they still work, they still grease the wheels of life very effectively.

Looking for transparency, for a solution rather than a problem can make life sweet and they are there if you want to find them. Underrated but very efficient.

How do you sell your property – become one of the three out of ten that actually transact — and simultaneously buy one of the seven that aren’t moving? How do you turn this market, which feels for many like a trap, into the single best financial move you’ve made in a decade?

Homes are still being fiercely contested at auction when priced correctly. And homes are rotting on market for half a year when overpriced at an EOI.

Hundreds of Millions Sat Unsold via EOI in October 2025.

This week in Melbourne…
hundreds of millions of dollars of top-end property is sitting unsold.

Not withdrawn.

Not passed in.

Just sitting.

In March 2026 Sellers Still Aren’t Listening and the results are worse.

Last Thursday.
Three homes.
About $17 million worth of property.
And three very same but different (Aldi) lessons for buyers.