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Please click on the image below to watch a recording of Tuesday night's webinar, Property investors' classic mistakes Timestamp Stuart Wemyss: 1:54 to 33:20 Monique Sasson Wakelin: 33:20 to 43:15 Questions: 43:15 - 61:00 The following participant questions were answered by the panellists: No...

Click here to hear Monique speaking to Hilary Harper last Saturday regarding the state of the property market and opportunities in fast-approaching Spring.   Image: Pixomar

Yesterday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released its Eight Capital Cities House Price Indexes for the June 2012 quarter. It was the last of the four main data providers to publish – the others being RP Data-Rismark, Australian Property Monitors and Residex. As usual, there is a fair amount of divergence between the four data providers about the state of the market. This shouldn’t be a surprise...

With the year’s half-way mark recently reached, it’s a good moment to gauge the comparative performance of the 2012 Melbourne auction market. The accompanying chart compares the auction clearance rate for the first 24 weeks of the auction season in 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively. It also records – in the bubbles – the average number of auctions each week and overall clearance rate for these periods...

A wonderful evening was had by all at the opening night of The Marriage of Figaro , which Wakelin Property Advisory was proud to support. Here are a selection of photos from the evening. To the right: (l to r) Monique Sasson Wakelin, Tiffany Speight (The Countess), Graeme Willersdorf (chair, Victorian Opera) Jacqueline Porter (Susanna), Paul Nugent and Richard Wakelin. Below: Monique Wakelin's speech...