Most property investors arrive in a new market carrying assumptions built somewhere else. 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… Read More

The median house price is the most quoted number in Australian property reporting. What it actually measures is far less well understood than how often it is quoted.Every month, data providers publish median house prices for suburbs, cities, and corridors across the country. Those numbers get picked up by news outlets, shared on social medi… Read More

The typical homeowner goes into an appraisal expecting one clear answer. The reality is a range informed by market data, interpreted through judgement, and subject to variation depending on who conducts the assessment.Most people treat the question of property value as though it has a clean, retrievable answer. What produces that answer is … Read More

People making property decisions in Adelaide after years in Sydney or Melbourne often bring the wrong framework with them. They apply a framework built in one market to a market that operates by different rules.The Adelaide housing market has its own structure, its own demand drivers, and its own rhythm. Knowing how Adelaide differs from ea… Read More

Few numbers get more attention in Australian real estate than the median house price. What it actually measures is far less well understood than how often it is quoted.Regular median price publications from data providers reach buyers, sellers, and commentators across every market in Australia. They are repeated in news coverage, shared acr… Read More