VIC Real Estate News
Real estate news and market updates for Victoria. Industry developments, sales results, and insights for VIC property professionals.
Officer house sells as agent turns hesitant buyers into believers
A 59-day private treaty campaign in Officer delivered $650,000 for a three-bedroom house as Quazi Haider of Area Specialist Rapid guided hesitant buyers through negative headlines by focusing on infrastructure growth and lifestyle connectivity.
LongView Real Estate wins REIV’s top agency award
LongView Real Estate has been named Large Residential Agency of the Year at the REIV Awards for Excellence…
Data centres leapfrog offices and warehouses as $18.3bn construction pipeline takes shape
New research shows the building category that includes data centres has overtaken traditional commercial construction categories, with NSW…
Natalie Robinson secures $6.5m chicken farm sale in 24 hours after vendor waited two years
A database buyer who missed out on a previous chicken farm made a full-price unconditional offer within 24…
PRD leadership tours Victorian offices and investor events
The network's corporate team visited offices across Victoria and co-hosted investor events in Bendigo and Kyneton, where PRD's…
Melbourne auction volumes plunge as reserve price rules begin
Victoria's new reserve price transparency rules coincide with the sharpest weekly fall in auction listings since winter, even…
Family returns home as Andrew Ferraro secures off-market Lysterfield sale
Andrew Ferraro turned a probate waiting period into a strategic advantage, securing a buyer from his database before…
Victoria moves to ease foreign investor property taxes as housing targets remain out of reach
The Carroll Labor Government has announced tax concessions for residential developers and promised a broader review of foreign…
Victoria bans rental application fees, tightens bond claim rules
New laws now in effect require landlords to produce evidence before claiming against a bond and mandate gas…
Alan King named Century 21 state director for Victoria
The former agency owner and Victoria Police detective will lead support for principals and sales leaders across the…
Father brought to tears as son secures first home in five-acre Yackandandah auction
A young first-home buyer's decisive knockout bid secured just over five acres of lifestyle land close to Yackandandah's…
Seven days, multiple buyers, and a fireplace that sealed the deal in Mount Eliza
A compressed seven-day campaign with multiple competing buyers and a pre-launch advocate strategy delivered $1.65 million for a…
Patient strategy delivers premium result for Point Cook family home
Pardeep Chahal's education-first approach and patient negotiation delivered a premium Point Cook result after a longer-than-typical campaign found…
Real estate has a hospitality problem – and it’s costing agents business
Harcourts Victoria CEO Adam Fiteni believes real estate has become too focused on the next transaction and not…
Victoria fast-tracks thousands of homes, but completions rise by just seven
New ABS data shows Victoria added just seven more completed homes over the past year, even as the…
Geelong family finds their tree-change dream after social media campaign reaches the right buyer
A Geelong family's dream of a tree-change lifestyle came true after Aisha Coe's social media strategy turned around…
Off-market acreage sale delivers result vendors couldn’t achieve two years earlier
Priscilla Asi matched a local family with their dream acreage property after they'd missed out on a similar…
Marcus Washington: Building freedom and flexibility in Pakenham
Marcus Washington has spent sixteen years in real estate, but the last five years running his own business…
Land tax data shows outer suburbs carry the biggest load
New Victorian Government figures show most people paying land tax on properties worth $50,000 to $300,000 own just…
Alessandra Knez joins Harcourts as property operations manager
The property management specialist and certified coach will support Harcourts offices across Victoria and South Australia in a…
Family ties secure $1.24m off-market sale in Tarneit’s growth corridor
When Kunal Singh identified a database buyer whose family lived streets away, he knew the emotional connection would…
Josh Wilson and Tara Apps launch Belle Property Echuca Moama
A locally born sales agent and property management specialist with a combined 24 years' experience have opened a…
Forget the auction doomsayers: Andy Reid sees opportunity in Victoria’s new laws
As Victoria’s new property laws take effect on October 1, auctioneer and author Andy Reid says greater transparency…
Courtney Berry named Harcourts Victoria operations manager
Courtney Berry brings more than a decade of experience across sales, property management, training and operations to the…
Damian Larkin secures $560k result for iconic Wendouree bell tower apartment
Damian Larkin's persistent communication and market adjustments helped secure a $560,000 result for an iconic Wendouree bell tower…
Grovedale townhouse with polarising styling attracts three offers in 20 days
Jason Barnett navigated polarising styling and a softening market to secure three offers on a two-bedroom Grovedale townhouse…
Lara family home draws investor interest
A three-bedroom house in Lara has sold for $630,000 by Gaurav Garg, with the result reflecting buyer interest…
Six-month buyer relationship delivers $910,000 off-market result in Glenroy
Six months of database nurturing and strategic negotiation delivered a $110,000 price lift for a weatherboard house with…
Barry Plant agent to sell third Home for a Cure property
Romi Sleiman is heading into auction day on a Donnybrook property that will raise funds for My Room…
How one Harcourts office is supporting bereaved local families
Harcourts Drysdale joined Harcourts Victoria and the Harcourts Foundation to present a grant to Wombat's Wish, whose programs…
Sydney, Melbourne sellers withdraw stock as listings tighten
New analysis from Ray White shows owners in Australia's two largest cities are pulling properties from the market…
St Albans house sells $72,000 above reserve as Gordon Tran’s street-flooding strategy ignites five-bidder auction
Gordon Tran's hyper-local marketing blitz and high-energy auction approach delivered a result $72,000 above reserve, turning neighbourhood visibility…
Family ties bring interstate buyers to architectural Daylesford home with heated plunge pool
An interstate family's desire to be closer to loved ones drove the sale of this architecturally designed Daylesford…
Magazine-style photos and investor focus deliver $563k Mildura result in eight days
Lukas Pedder's strategic pricing and magazine-edit photography turned a central Mildura family home into a magnet for interstate…
How Storyhouse sold a $4.75m Kew home in 14 days after two previous campaigns
When a Kew family home failed to sell twice, the vendors faced a choice: repeat the same approach…