The Wakelin Blog

It's election day. The campaigning is done and it's up to us, the voters, to cast our vote and choose the government for the next three years or so. A much asked question over recent weeks has been: "Will a change of government impact the property market?" That's a difficult question to answer...

‘Unteaching’ clients is often part of an investment property advisor’s role –  the challenging of preconceived ideas about what represents a good investment, stripping away biases and switching off emotion-driven decision making. That is, as you would expect, a delicate process...

Saturday was a big day and night for the Wakelin Property Advisory team.  The daylight hours saw the team spread out across the inner suburbs to identify and evaluate the properties that would represent the first blooms of the spring auction market in a few weeks' time...

When a property is passed in at auction, there are negotiation techniques to maximise your chance of securing the property and not over paying.

Last night Monique Sasson had the honour of hosting a hugely informative and entertaining evening previewing the upcoming Victorian Opera production of Discover Sunday in the Park with George. The production is inspired by Georges Seurat’s vivid impressionist painting, A Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte. " It is an excellent choice of painting to build a musical theatre piece around, and one dear to my own heart," Monique told the 200-strong audience...