The Adelaide median house price is one of the most cited numbers in property commentary and one of the least useful for anyone trying to make a decision about a specific suburb. This article explains how Adelaide house prices are structured across the city corridors, what the data shows when examine… Read More

When a real estate agent quotes a fee, the conversation almost always collapses into a single number - the percentage. Two per cent. Two and a half. Occasionally less, occasionally more. The vendor hears the number, compares it mentally to what other agents have quoted, and makes a judgement about w… Read More

An investor who bought in the inner eastern suburbs in 2005 and held for fifteen years did well. But an investor who applied the same logic in 2018, paying a premium for inner-ring scarcity at peak prices, has a different story. The premium was real. The subsequent growth was not proportional to wha… Read More

Most people spend more time researching a kitchen renovation than they spend preparing to sell their most valuable asset. What tends to happen next is where things go wrong. The homeowner calls an agent, gets a number, signs an agreement, and lists the property - often without understanding what the… Read More

For most of the past two decades, the conventional wisdom on Adelaide property investment pointed firmly inward. Buy close to the city. Pay the premium. Benefit from the scarcity. It was a reasonable framework - and for a long time it worked. What has shifted is not the desirability of inner Adelaid… Read More