News & Updates

Market News for the Sunshine Coast

Detached listings There are 464 current detached listings and 28 sales year to date. The hot price range of the market is between $300,000 and $400,000. with 50 % of the sales occurring in this price range. With the current pace of sales this represents a 17 month supply of listings. Comparing the previous year’s [...]

Price it right! – The most important component of a successful sale.

Put aside your emotions and price your home right from beginning!  The advantages of an accurate listing price are a faster sale, less inconvenience, increased activity, often a higher selling price, reduced negotiations, and avoidance of a “stale listing” which can lead to your home standing out and being compared negatively to the competition. Appraisers use to two main methods to appraise your home: [...]

Tips for selling your home in 2012

Did you know that the return on staging your home is estimated to be somewhere between 6 and 10% increase on your sales price. The marketing time to sale is shortened. Staging does not mean you need to spend a fortune. Create the Vision inside and out. If you can see a broken fence panel or [...]

Market and Population Trends

photo by KamsWorld The question was asked “Who will make up these three hundred people and does this mean that every year we will add three hundred people to the Coast?” The answer is no, over the long term the stats show that on average 300 people will move to the Coast. If we look [...]

To Buy or To Sell in 2012?

photo by photodreamz If you are thinking of selling in 2012 you need to answer these questions first “what will I do when I Sell?” and “Will you be buying back into the market?” If you are buying back into the market this is a great time to sell. In our current Buyer’s market you [...]

Looking back at 2011 and looking forward to 2012

Photo by JamesZ In 2011 we had what was often called a “swing year” as the market saw sellers trying to hold their ground and buyers sitting on the sidelines, increasing inventory and declining sales pushed prices down. We saw detached sales decline by 10 % to finish the year with 451 sales and 1187 [...]