The question most Gawler vendors ask before they list is what their property is worth. The question fewer ask - at least not with the same rigour - is what it is going to cost them to sell it. The gap between sale price and net proceeds is shaped by a range of costs that are entirely predictable if you know where to look. Treating those costs as a … Read More

Picture a Gawler vendor who has received their first offer. It came in lower than expected. The vendor is frustrated. The agent recommends a counter. The vendor counters too aggressively and the buyer withdraws. Two weeks later a second offer arrives at a similar level. The vendor, now anxious, accepts something close to the original offer they rej… Read More

Picture a vendor in Gawler East who has just received an appraisal. A neighbour three streets away in a similar home recently sold. The vendor uses that result as a benchmark. What they do not know is that the neighbour was in a different price bracket for reasons that are not immediately visible from the street. The suburb name was the same. The p… Read More

Most Gawler homeowners approach the appraisal process with a version of the same assumption - that the figure an agent gives them reflects what the market will actually pay. Sometimes it does. Often it reflects what the agent thinks the vendor wants to hear, what the agent believes will win the listing, or what the agent can justify from a limited … Read More

The question most Gawler vendors ask before they list is what their property is worth. The question fewer ask - at least not with the same rigour - is what it is going to cost them to sell it. The gap between sale price and net proceeds is shaped by a range of costs that are entirely predictable if you know where to look. Treating those costs as a … Read More