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By Cate Bakos on 15 Apr 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome
On Saturday I drove to Hadfield to bid at auction. My buyers were excited, nervous and prepared, which is to be expected from first home buyers who have carefully selected a home with all of the right elements for capital growth. They had zeroed in on Hadfield, a tight little suburb wedged between Glenroy and Pascoe Vale ...
By Cate Bakos on 8 Apr 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome
Three weeks ago I embarked on an assignment for a wonderful client who had a tailored property investment brief targeting a high growth, unique property in Melbourne's south east. With a budget of less than $600,000, I was determined to locate a beautiful Art Deco apartment, but I needed some good fortune on my side ...
By Cate Bakos on 1 Apr 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome
On Saturday just gone I had a scheduled auction to attend in Highett, a small suburb located 16 kilometres south east of Melbourne and just two kilometres inland from beautiful Port Philip Bay. The house... oh, the house. It suited my buyers' checklist on every single criteria and captured their hearts on the very first visit ...
By Cate Bakos on 25 Mar 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome
With a budget of only $300,000, it was my goal to find a good investment property within 13km of the city. I was also looking for something on a serviced rail line, near a vibrant cafe strip. You could say I had my work cut out for me. My clients were particularly keen to see if I could come up with something seaside... and that I did ...
By Cate Bakos on 18 Mar 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome
I met two wonderful clients at a home show last year. They had been dreaming of investing in property, but for various reasons hadn’t made the firm decision to commit to a strategy. Perhaps they hadn’t devised a strategy, or perhaps the idea of risk scared them ...
By Cate Bakos on 11 Mar 2014 1 Comment
I recently had the pleasure of helping a lovely couple buy a house that could be best described as their dream home. They’d carefully worked through their own checklist, their favourite parts of the city and budget constraints before coming up with Northcote as their target suburb. Some may ask “why Northcote?” but to me ...
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