BY Mal James 14th September 2019
Spring Summary
There is little confusion with the Inner Melbourne Spring market direction right now.
The reasons for this sudden, powerful and upward market directional change could be something temporary like an election afterglow, the Early Spring Pep or something more concrete like stock levels or the banks are lending again and the Asian market has returned. [...]
BY Mal James 18th June 2019
Estate Agents are solving homelessness just like people solved polio, road toll and guns
Well done Kay and Burton, Marshall White,
Jellis Craig, Fletchers, Nick Johnstone,
Greg Hocking and Buxton
28,000 Melburnians are homeless – how many is that?
For every working Melbourne agent, there are two homeless people? OMG! Evidence
Good news: Estate Agents REDUCED 253 evictions with early intervention phone calls
253 [...]
BY Mal James 27th August 2018
Divorce, the Children and a Better Way.
This is an ongoing part of our multi-generational living series.
If the unhelpful events of Canberra of this past week have reminded us of anything – it is that the sum of divided individuals is far less than the value of a united group.
It’s exactly what happens in a divorce when it comes [...]
BY Mal James 28th July 2018
Welcome to the early beginnings of the Melbourne Spring buying and selling market.
Auctions start in a few weeks time.
This weekend’s James Market Insight, is the first in a series of three, about how you can best manage yourself in what’s to come.
Why manage yourself?
One: If you cannot manage yourself, then you dramatically increase your chances of [...]
BY Mal James 21st April 2018
At James Buyer Advocates we are looking to help younger homebuyers where we can.
We now believe in a PAUSE in rapid population growth through immigration (family reunions excepted) from 2020 to 2025/2030?
Why? We would like to see our community have a discussion and consider infrastructure solutions to better house our young people, who already live here.
When our community thinks it’s right to [...]
BY Mal James 5th March 2018
We are pleased to welcome James Hayward, who has been employed by James Buyer Advocates on a part-time basis, to take a very average Inner Melbourne site (irregular land size of just over 700 sqm, with two older style brick unrenovated buildings) and a very average Inner Melbourne family (arguments, stresses, hope and dreams) and bring them [...]
BY Mal James 3rd March 2018
It’s 6.00pm Saturday and the James Clearance rate for $M+ Inner Melbourne was a drifting down 62% on the 34 auctions we covered today, in the second week of our James 100 Auction 3-Week Test. Last week it was 68%.
James Bidderman, that is bidders per auction, was 1.6, which continues the significant drop of the last four months and represents around a [...]
BY Mal James 7th October 2017
Contents October Market Start Edition
1. October Market Start
2. Inside James – An incredible story from Malvern East to Tanzania
3. Game Changer – Stonnington Heritage Reversal
It (usually) attracts more than a Grand Final,
a bigger array of stars than the Cup Carnival – the results are more telling than the Bathurst 500: that’s what Super Saturday, October 28th will represent to [...]
BY Mal James 9th September 2017
Spring Summary: To say the market is as strong as six months ago, or this time last year, would be a wrong call.
As an across the board statement, it would be the wrong call, to state or assume the overall Inner Melbourne Family Home market is definitely on the way down, as there is still no [...]
BY Mal James 12th August 2017
Let’s look at Underquoting and Patrick Dangerfield – both have been in the news lately.
This week I read an article, it was on underquoting. It worried me where it was going – it read like a showbiz article and not like what we have been seeing with Underquoting since May.
We are seeing that agents have collectively, made massive [...]
BY Mal James 27th May 2017
What is the market really doing?
We get asked this question daily so we decided to conduct a 3-Week, 100 Auction Report challenge during the month of May.
Well, there were no surprises! All three measurements showed that the Inner Melbourne market is in what we call “boom times”, but now, since 2008, increasingly what we call [...]
BY Mal James 27th May 2017
This week in James Market News: (click on contents)
1. Market Commentary
2. May 3-Week Auction Challenge – Results are in…
3. Bayside and Inner East Auction Action
4. 2017 James Half Year Summary
5. Land Prices – 2010 – 2017
6. Negotiation Corner – Narrowed Focus
7. Inside James – and Off Markets
8. Younger Homebuyers – [...]
BY Mal James 29th April 2017
It was a quiet-ish day today on market – off market is a different story – the auction biggies for May starting in numbers the week after next.
At that time we will be focusing on James Bidderman (for any movement in demand) and any drop off from overseas buyers.
Has all the talk of late begun to bite?
This [...]
BY Mal James 4th February 2017
We were out and about again today – this time with Gina.
It took time to find parking at all Open for Inspections as there were plenty of buyers window shopping – yes, all February auctions are online, but also most schools have started back this week too. The next 2 weeks should see March listings hit [...]
BY Mal James 28th January 2017
Clockwise visits today – no substitute for foot leather, listening, looking and listening again.
1st Slide
Clockwise from top left: Malvern East:$2.5m? – little cutie – no, not the agent John Manton – the house. Good crowds at the OFI.
Hawthorn: $4m? Off -Market or Pre-Market? – good family home. Crowds – Only one!
Armadale: $4m? Nice one – listening [...]
