In this week’s episode we will be showing you the best free property tools that you can use to help you get an edge when analysing properties fast!

Welcome to How’s The Market, a podcast for First Home Buyers and Upgraders that gives you tips, tricks & up to date real estate information from on the ground across Melbourne & Geelong.

Make sure to check out www.tomii.com.au to get access to our How's The Market blog and join the mailing list and we shall see you again in next week's episode!

In this week’s episode, we will be outlining the basics of every government grant available to first-home buyers in Victoria.

Read the full blog below:

www.tomii.com.au/blog/every-government-grant-you-need-to-know-as-a-first-home-buyer-in-victoria

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Welcome to How’s The Market, a podcast for First Home Buyers and Upgraders that gives you tips, tricks & up to date real estate information from on the ground across Melbourne & Geelong.

Make sure to check out www.tomii.com.au to get access to our How's The Market blog and join the mailing list and we shall see you again in next week's episode!

In this week’s episode, we deep dive into the shocking and wonderful sides of owners corporations in Victoria.

Owners corporations (previously known as Body Corporates) in Victoria don’t have the best reputation.

Many first-home buyers come to us and say they wish to buy a unit or apartment that isn’t in an owner's corporation, without even truly understanding what an owner's corporation is, they just think they are bad.

I hope to demonstrate in this article & podcast that they are not all bad. 

For the full article, click below:

www.tomii.com.au/blog/the-shocking-wonderful-of-owners-corporations

Welcome to How’s The Market, a podcast for First Home Buyers and Upgraders that gives you tips, tricks & up to date real estate information from on the ground across Melbourne & Geelong.

Make sure to check out www.tomii.com.au to get access to our How's The Market blog and join the mailing list and we shall see you again in next week's episode!

In this week’s episode we will be doing a market update across Melbourne. If you would like to read the full version and look at all the numbers, you can check out this weeks block below:

https://www.tomii.com.au/blog/melbournes-market-outlook-for-2023-to-2024

Welcome to How’s The Market, a podcast for First Home Buyers and Upgraders that gives you tips, tricks & up to date real estate information from on the ground across Melbourne & Geelong.

Make sure to check out www.tomii.com.au to get access to our How's The Market blog and join the mailing list and we shall see you again in next week's episode!

Making offers is the most crucial part of real estate and where you can save yourself tens of thousands of $$ or where you can lose it.

In this episode, we break down the difference between a conditional and unconditional offer and just how much that might cost you.

Welcome to How’s The Market, a podcast for First Home Buyers and Upgraders that gives you tips, tricks & up to date real estate information from on the ground across Melbourne & Geelong.

Make sure to check out www.tomii.com.au to get access to our How's The Market blog and join the mailing list and we shall see you again in next week's episode!

In this week's podcast, Tristan Larkin deep dives into the 3 biggest challenges of analysing off-market properties and how you can overcome them!


Welcome to How’s The Market, a podcast for First Home Buyers and Upgraders that gives you tips, tricks & up to date real estate information from on the ground across Melbourne & Geelong.

Make sure to check out www.tomii.com.au to get access to our How's The Market blog and join the mailing list and we shall see you again in next week's episode!

Everything you need to know about the Victorian governments most recent housing policy updates that has been released in their Housing Statement in September 2023.

You can find a copy of the Housing Statement here.

Welcome to How’s The Market, a podcast for First Home Buyers and Upgraders that gives you tips, tricks & up to date real estate information from on the ground across Melbourne & Geelong.

Make sure to check out www.tomii.com.au to get access to our How's The Market blog and join the mailing list and we shall see you again in next week's episode!

Understanding the Do's & Don'ts of floor plans is paramount in creating a flowing and functioning home in today's day and age.

In today's episode, Jonah Howard dives into the important things you need to look out for and how you can analyse the flow of a house just by doing a thorough review of the floor plan prior to even inspecting it!

Welcome to How’s The Market, a podcast for First Home Buyers and Upgraders that gives you tips, tricks & up to date real estate information from on the ground across Melbourne & Geelong.

Make sure to check out www.tomii.com.au to get access to our How's The Market blog and join the mailing list and we shall see you again in next week's episode!

After a tough year for buyers with supply shortages, heavy competition at each open and multiple offers on most properties, the spring market is now alleviating pressure and providing a great opportunity to purchase prior to Christmas.

Finally, across most markets, we are seeing an uptick in stock. Whilst it has not been an extreme jump yet, it is a positive sign.

In this episode, we deep dive into the opportunity that the next few months presents in 2023 as well as diving into the topic of off-the-plan apartments and some horror stories!

Welcome to How’s The Market, a podcast for First Home Buyers and Upgraders that gives you tips, tricks & up to date real estate information from on the ground across Melbourne & Geelong.

Make sure to check out www.tomii.com.au to get access to our How's The Market blog and join the mailing list and we shall see you again in next week's episode!

The RBA has now officially held the cash rate on pause again for their September meeting which means that the analyst were right in their predictions.

In this episode we deep dive into the RBAs meeting minutes, what the major banks have predicted, what property prices are doing and where vacancy rates are at across the country.

Welcome to How’s The Market, a podcast for First Home Buyers and Upgraders that gives you tips, tricks & up to date real estate information from on the ground across Melbourne & Geelong.

Make sure to check out www.tomii.com.au to get access to our How's The Market blog and join the mailing list and we shall see you again in next week's episode!