Melbourne Property Insights Archive | James Buyer Advocates

You don’t need the old market back.
You just need to understand the new one.
And use it well.

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Not withdrawn.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.