
What does off-market mean when you're buying...
If you're selling, off-market means your agent sells your home without advertising it publicly: no listing on the property websites, no signboard and no ads. Instead, your agent takes it straight...

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If you're selling, off-market means your agent sells your home without advertising it publicly: no listing on the property websites, no signboard and no ads. Instead, your agent takes it straight...

Key takeawaysThe picks: Ten suburbs across Regional NSW's inland Riverina, Central Tablelands, far-west, New England and coastal-fringe corridors, with house medians from $332,500 to $572,000 and...

There's no single best month to sell a house in Australia, although seasonality plays a substantial role in the property market.Nationally, spring brings the most buyers, and November is the...

If you're selling your property in Victoria, expect to pay your agent about 1.80% of the sale price. That's the state average, including GST, according to internal data.According to internal data,...

Getting ready to sell in Melbourne and thinking about property styling? Property styling, also called home staging, means hiring furniture, art and accessories to present your home for photos and...

If you're looking at a house and land package, you'd be buying a block of land and a new home together, usually on two contracts: one for the land and one with a builder. You pay a deposit on...

If you're selling in NSW, expect to pay your agent an average of 1.85% of the sale price, or 1.63% in Sydney, according to internal data. Both rates include GST. There's no standard rate, so what...

If you're buying your first home, it helps to know the order things happen in. Before you start looking, you'll work out what you can borrow, check which government schemes you can use and get...

If you're selling your home, before it goes on the market, you should line up a conveyancer to handle the legal side of the sale (or a lawyer in Queensland and the ACT), ideally while you're...