Andy Webb

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 renting and can't yet save a deposit, rent-to-buy can look like a way into your own home. It does exist in Australia, but it isn't one product. It's a few different arrangements, and the...

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...

An agency agreement is the contract that appoints your agent. It sets how their commission is worked out and when you pay it, what you'll spend on marketing, how long you're committed and how you...

If you're thinking of buying a house to renovate and sell, your profit is what's left of the sale price after four lots of costs (buying, holding, renovating and selling) and then tax. Those costs...

Compare the evidence behind each agent's figure, not the figures themselves. Ask every agent for the recent sales their estimate is based on, check those sales against your home, and be cautious...