People making property decisions in Adelaide after years in Sydney or Melbourne often bring the wrong framework with them. What they know about property from Sydney or Melbourne is real knowledge - it simply does not apply in the same way here.Understanding the Adelaide market requires setting aside the eastern capital framework and engaging with a

Property investors moving into the Adelaide market regularly carry assumptions that were formed watching a different market behave. In the Adelaide context, those assumptions produce errors that can take several years to surface.Adelaide has drawn a growing number of property investors in recent years, drawn by a combination of factors that disting

The assumptions investors bring to a new market are almost always formed in a different one. The cost of those assumptions is not always immediately apparent - it tends to surface when the investor tries to sell or refinance and finds the outcome different from what they expected.The Adelaide residential property market has attracted increasing inv

Preparing a property for sale almost always involves some level of financial outlay. Not all of it comes back at settlement. Some of it never had a chance of returning anything at all.The gap between what sellers spend preparing a property for sale and what buyers are actually willing to pay for is one of the most consistent sources of financial di

Most homeowners expect a single number. What they get from a property appraisal is a range, a set of assumptions, and an answer that can shift depending on who is doing the calculating.The question of what a house is worth sounds simple. What produces that answer is more complex than the question itself suggests. Understanding how property values a