Under Asking

The agent works for the seller.

One email a week on what Australian homes actually sell for: how often they close under the advertised price, by how much, and how the other side negotiates.

50 Walnut Street, Wynnum QLD
Asked, 19 MayOffers over $1,690,000
Cut to, 15 JuneOffers over $1,625,000
Sold, 24 August$1,600,000
$90,000 under what the seller first asked

Ninety-seven days on the market. The June price cut wasn't the vendor meeting the market — it was the vendor catching up to it, and the buyer still got under the revised floor.

What arrives each week

The national number

The gap between what sellers asked and what they got, and whether it's widening or closing.

One house, pulled apart

A property that sold that month: what the listing claimed, what the data said, and what it went for. A different state each week.

One tactic explained

Something the selling side did this week — a price guide that moved, a relist, a second open scheduled to build a crowd.

Buying a house is the one negotiation you do without data.

The other side has all of it. This evens that up a little, once a week, for free.

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