Welcome, this world is ultra-high-end real estate. My name is Mal James.

Currently, we have six clients in that buy-sell range of $30 million.

• One couple is looking to buy a Portsea clifftop and will then sell their holiday home.
• A couple looking to sell in Sackville Kew and transition into something smaller.
• Another is in a similar location selling at years end and moving to Brighton.
• Brighton couple with home and court looking to move to Albert Park large land.
• Toorak buy first $15m – $20m, then sell in the same suburb.
• Selling a Toorak home currently – if the number is right, will need somewhere to live.

If we can find the right option at $30m, one couple would consider selling their home north of $70m – it’s a tall order. They have a great home now.

But we like tall orders, our clients have broken records in many suburbs and all-time records for Melbourne and Vic.

For these above clients, we have bought their current home or acted for them on other ones – these are people we do have a trusting working relationship with.

All or none of these families may transact in this current year, as it’s a very different one to last year.

Last year we completed a $65m interstate buy sell, a $24m beachfront buy sell, a near $30m purchase in East Melbourne, a $20m buy sell in Grace Park and $10m buy sells in Eaglemont, Hawthorn and South Melbourne. A different year.

Letterboxing, doorknocking, agent ringing, lawyer talking, marketnews advertising, party going (only a little bit), home open attending and a few pieces of magic like database matching, all get our mobiles lighting up. Followed by short text informing, private visiting, some due diligence and argy-bargying, perhaps resulting in another quiet and very private re-transformation.

Our services revolve around values and finding quiet options, deal strategies (through you or us), on either side of the buy/sell fence but never on the same fence at the same time.

Commissions, agents the good and the bad, deadlines, ultimatums, and if-buts-maybes, are all grist in our mill and good subjects over a coffee, mineral water, or meal.

If you want to know what’s off-market, what land values really are or you have a home for one of our clients or you are simply unclear on how to put a deal/move together to your advantage, then this could be a reason to make contact and no we won’t badger you back – life is too short and besides it’s not how good buy sells happen.