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

The selling method decision gets less attention than it deserves. Most Gawler vendors spend more time thinking about what their property is worth than how they are going to sell it. That imbalance matters because the method shapes the outcome as directly as the price does. A correctly priced property sold through the wrong method for its buyer prof… Read More

Take a vendor in Willaston who has been watching the Gawler East market and forming a view of what their property is worth based on what they have seen selling nearby. The numbers look encouraging. The problem is that Willaston and Gawler East are not the same market. The buyer walking through a Willaston home is often making a different set of dec… Read More

The idea that a property appraisal is a straightforward, objective process is the first myth worth dismantling. It is not. Two agents can walk through the same Gawler property on the same day and produce figures that differ by fifty thousand dollars or more. Both figures can be technically defensible. Only one of them - if either - reflects what a … Read More

Take two vendors in the same general area - one in Gawler East, one just across into Evanston. Both have three-bedroom homes on comparable land. Both received appraisals within weeks of each other. The figures came back differently. Neither agent was wrong. The suburbs are simply not the same market, and the data reflects that.What the sold… Read More