A fifteen-minute drive can separate two suburbs by two hundred thousand dollars in median house price. Knowing what creates the gap matters more than knowing the size of it.Comparing suburb medians is one of the most routine activities in property research. What those comparisons reveal is routinely interpreted in ways that miss the more im… Read More

The cheapest property available is not always the most affordable one. The gap between those two concepts is not theoretical - it has real financial consequences that emerge over the hold period.Purchase price and affordability are regularly treated as synonymous in property conversations - they are not. When the purchase price is low, affo… Read More

Suburbs that are geographically close can produce price differences that feel entirely disproportionate to the distance between them. The explanation for that gap contains more useful market information than the median figures themselves.Comparing suburb medians is one of the most routine activities in property research. The results of thos… Read More

Most sellers commit some level of spending to their property before it goes to market. The relationship between pre-sale spending and sale price is not always the one sellers expect. Certain categories of pre-sale spending produce no return regardless of how much is committed to them.The gap between what sellers spend preparing a property f… Read More

A fifteen-minute drive can separate two suburbs by two hundred thousand dollars in median house price. Knowing what creates the gap matters more than knowing the size of it.Comparing suburb medians is one of the most routine activities in property research. The results of those comparisons are regularly misread in ways that produce poor dec… Read More