The assumptions investors bring to a new market are almost always formed in a different one. Applied to Adelaide, those assumptions produce miscalculations whose consequences often do not become clear until years into the hold period.Over the past several years the Adelaide residential market has appeared on more investor radar screens than at any

A low purchase price and genuine affordability are not the same thing. Missing the distinction between low price and genuine affordability is a mistake with consequences that unfold over years rather than days.Most buyers approach affordability as a question of purchase price when it is actually a question of total cost over the ownership period. T

The median house price is the most quoted number in Australian property reporting. It is repeated constantly and understood correctly far less often than it is used.Regular median price publications from data providers reach buyers, sellers, and commentators across every market in Australia. Those numbers get picked up by news outlets, shared on so

What Data Powers Online Property EstimatesMost sellers check an online estimate before speaking to an agent. Understandable. Also where the first pricing misconception usually starts.That is the extent of their input. No inspection. No condition assessment. No awareness of what has changed inside the property or how it presents to buyers.Sellers an

How First Impressions Influence Appraisal OutcomesA seller walks the agent through every improvement. The agent listens, inspects, and arrives at a number the seller was not expecting. This happens more often than agents would prefer to say - not because sellers are wrong to prepare, but because not all preparation is equal.What registers is not wh