Lest We Forget
Over the weekend we've been dealt divergent stories on the Australian real estate market. One essentially misplaced from the daily horoscopes, Libra and Scorpio: buyers will be madly snapping up houses in Sydney over your birth months. The other regarding Queensland's dying property market and the resultant carnage ripping through real estate offices, with many agents now dead on the battlefield. According to Andrew Carswell and Vikki Campion in the Daily Telegraph (yep, it took two minds to cobble this tale together) MORE than 100,000 Sydneysiders are waking from winter hibernation ready for a spring home-buying spree that experts predict will jump-start Sydney's property market. Real estate agencies are anticipating a record flood of inquiries in coming weeks. What follows is a series of quotes from agents, one more laughable than the next, based on their hunches and assumptions. The kind investment analysis you'd hear at the bar after four pots, is now passing for n...