TROPICAL DESTINATION

While some people are dreaming of a tropical destination at this time of year, others are buying one.

The ink is barely dry but we just negotiated the sale of a beautiful tropical inspired home in Bay View Terrace, Claremont. This 3 bedroom property, with its stunning bathrooms and chef’s kitchen, offers the free-flowing indoor-outdoor living that is reminiscent of being on holiday in a tropical location. Negotiating the sale of this property was no holiday however and it came down to listening and understanding the goals and desires of both the buyer and the owner to achieve a very successful outcome.

Around the traps, it was interesting to see how few properties were opened over the weekend. The agents who did open on the weekend were however rewarded for their efforts by good attendance. Some of our team members reported large number of groups through their homes and the quality was overall very good.

We also received a lot of appraisal requests over the weekend from people getting ready to bring their property to market in spring. Given there is already a fair amount of stock on the market, it will be interesting to see what happens in spring when the normal flood of properties arrives. If you’re waiting for spring to sell your property, consider bringing it to market in August to get an advantage over the competition.