How do you attract the right buyer?

The Spring selling season is just around the corner and clearance rates are rising, so is now a good time to sell your home at auction?

An analysis of properties sold via auction versus private sale over the past four years shows that auctions can typically achieve $20,000-$60,000 more depending on the market.

Off market sales became popular when Sydney’s property market was white hot.

Off market sales have always existed. But they started to become a standard feature of the Sydney property market in the strong conditions that existed between about 2013 and 2017.

That’s because going off-market has always been a strategy that tends to work very well in tight property markets, especially for high-end properties. With limited supply and enough interest in a property, it can let a seller cut straight to the people most likely to buy without the need to go through a lengthy public market campaign.

Buyers have been given a behind-the-scenes tour of the Signature Wollongong apartment building, which is still under construction.

Illawarra house prices have continued to fall, but there may be signs that "things are turning around", a leading economist says.