Property

Not Enjoying Football

This season of the Australian Football Tournament (AFT) has been atrocious. First, they brought in all these rule changes, then they decided to take six weeks off “just because”. Is this sport being run by monkeys with hammers? No, sorry, that’s an insult to monkeys and hammers. The quality of the sport has literally never …

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Million Dollar Paper

I just read an article outlining what a million dollars can buy you in today’s property market, and comparing this across Australia’s capital cities. Hobart, apparently, is still seeing soaring house prices, albeit from a low starting point, while Sydney offers its usual fare of inflated valuations with weekend auction mania only reinforcing that position. …

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Why, Though?

Here’s a question. Why do property sales always go through real estate agents? Put that in your hat and sit on it.  This is not meant to be making a point, or some kind of brain teaser. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s actually a perfectly satisfying answer out there; as someone with very limited …

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Tree Will

Everyone wants to live on a property with trees on it, right? Wrong. My brother, Robert, is so opposed to the idea that he’s been known to remove a perfect healthy Japanese maple and an adolescent fig tree, just so he ‘doesn’t have to deal with them’. That was his first order of business upon …

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