338 Kensington Rd ERINDALE – SOLD

17/05/30 at 2.37am / by husliadmin / 0 Comment

338 Kensington Rd, ERINDALE

SOLD SOLD SOLD

Want value for money? Take a look at this home.

Sorry, an astute buyer has already purchased this home… and can’t wait to move in!

In a prestige suburb at an affordable price – this is such a home. The median price in Erindale is $1,052,500 (source Core Logic). This home will sell below this price and offers exceptional value for money.

This character basket range home is an ideal family home. The formal portico entrance leads to a huge formal lounge. Double doors lead to the formal dining room and another set of double doors open into the secure and very private courtyard.

The timber floors and high ceilings combined with an abundance of natural light from the large windows make for a spacious home with plenty of room for all the family.

Three of the truly large double bedrooms have built ins (master with en-suite), while the fourth bedroom is currently configured as a generously proportioned home office.

The eat in kitchen has an island bench and a good amount of storage.

The established garden is low maintenance yet large enough for the kids to invite friends over to play or to host a large family gathering. Stroll to the Marryatville, Leabrooke or Erindale shopping centres.

This family home is in the Burnside Primary School zone and close to the following schools: Pembroke, St Peters Girls, Loreto Convent, Marryatville High School and Norwood Morialta.

This home is in the heart of the Eastern Suburbs with excellent public transport options to the C.B.D.

Call Irusia on 0414 640 115 to arrange a viewing.

3/24 Price Ave, LOWER MITCHAM – SOLD

16/09/01 at 2.27am / by husliadmin / 0 Comment

3/24 Price Ave, LOWER MITCHAM

SOLD SOLD SOLD

A must view for anyone wishing to buy into the Eastern Suburbs (Lower Mitcham) without breaking the bank.

This is a fantastic location, stroll to Mitcham Village, zip to the city by train or bus. The shopping
precincts of Unley, Hyde Park and Burnside are close by as are scores of great cafes, restaurants
and pubs.

This two storey unit has been totally refurbished and offers the astute buyer:

style
convenience
low maintenance living
a brand new kitchen, bathroom and a clever understair storage area.
a spacious and welcoming home
two large bedrooms, both with B/I/R offer plenty of storage and breakfast
on the balcony is a must

This stylish home is a must view for anyone wishing to buy into the Eastern Suburbs
without breaking the bank.

22A Church Street, MAGILL – UNDER CONTRACT

16/08/31 at 2.17am / by husliadmin / 0 Comment

22A Church Street, MAGILL

UNDER CONTRACT

This Torrens titled home is all about convenience, style and easy living.

Under contract. Call Irusia on 0414 640 115.

Land purchase is expensive and then you need to build. So why not mitigate the risk, heartache, and stress and buy new?

This Torrens titled home is all about convenience, style and easy living. The bus stop into town is 100m away and runs every 15 mins. The Magill kindergarten and primary school are all within walking distance as is Norwood Morialta High School. Pembroke is a few minutes’ drive away and the shops, pub, restaurants, and clubs are within walking distance.

The formal lounge is light filled and spacious, while the family/living looks out onto a grand verandah with raked high ceilings (4m) perfect for entertaining family and friends.

Provisions are in place for an outdoor kitchen if desired. The s/s Italian Stove (6 burners 2 ovens,) will bring out the master chef in you!
Miro Stone benchtops to kitchen, walk-in pantry, laundry, and bathrooms make cleaning a breeze.

The Italian ceramic tiles to all wet areas are designed to keep cleaning to a minimum.

Plenty of storage everywhere means your home will always look clean, neat and tidy.

The master bedroom is spacious and features a generously proportioned walk-in robe and en-suite.

The two other bedrooms have built in robes and are spacious.

Six zone heating and cooling provide heating in winter and cooling in summer

Bamboo flooring throughout offers years of beautiful living and playing.

Reasons Empty Rooms Are a Bad Idea When Selling Your House

16/07/26 at 2.11am / by husliadmin / 0 Comment

Reasons Empty Rooms Are a Bad Idea When Selling Your House

If you’re hoping to sell the home quickly and for as much money as possible, it’s a bad idea to try and sell a house with empty rooms.

Here are reasons why you should always use furniture and/or accessories in a room rather than showing it empty:
1. People don’t buy houses, they buy homes.
When you sell a house, you aren’t selling a commodity. You are selling a HOME, a place where a family will LIVE, raise their children, have a refuge from the outside world. Even if you’re selling a tiny condo, you’re selling to someone who will bring their hopes and dreams of how their lives when living in this new space.
Walking through empty rooms, or an empty house, is usually pretty depressing. It looks lonely, it doesn’t shout “This is your home, you will love living here.” So why would a buyer feel especially motivated to make an offer?
2. It’s hard to understand how large a room is when there’s nothing in it as a reference point.
Buyers can’t tell the difference between a 3x4m room and a 4x5m room if it’s empty. It looks about the same even though one is 40% bigger.
And when you’re dealing with an unfurnished space, a potential buyer has no idea what to do with it or how to arrange it. They might think it’s just big enough for a couch, 2 chairs and a coffee table, yet there’s room for so much more.
3. When a room is empty prospective buyers focus on negative details instead of falling in love with the overall space.
Instead of looking at the flow of one room to another, they get bogged down in questions like:
 Are the walls smooth?
 Will those bumps in the carpet come out?
 How come the robe doesn’t have a hanging bar?
 Why doesn’t that moulding fit perfectly?
 How come the light switch is in the middle of the wall?

4. When a house or even a few rooms are empty prospective buyers can get distracted from looking at the house.
Instead of focusing on whether this is the home for them, they may be busy wondering: Is this a divorce? Have they left town? Are they selling because they have money problems? This train of thought will take them where you, as a vendor, don’t want them to go!

They’ll start thinking, “Maybe I can put in a low offer since the seller might be desperate.” Clearly this is not the situation to get you the best price for the property. Why leave money on the table when a relatively minimal investment in home staging can make all the difference?

3 Unusual Questions Every Home Seller Should Ask Their Agent

16/07/21 at 1.37am / by husliadmin / 0 Comment

3 Unusual Questions Every Home Seller Should Ask Their Agent

In this day and age, one can easily get educated about selling your home by looking for information online, on your sofa and in your pyjamas. Yet there are still many aspects of the process that are best communicated one to one.

Here’s a list of questions that will assist when you start the process of listing your home for sale.

Do you have a list of service providers I’ll need to get me through this process to maximise my profit? Eg: Mortgage broker, painter, gardener, building inspector, staging professional, photographer, video expert?
What are the negatives of my home? What will stop buyers from buying in other words? This question will help you ascertain if an agent has difficulty in conveying the tough stuff that you need to know in order to sell your home. His/her answer to this question will help you discover if you’ve chosen a seasoned agent or not.
Can you give me two instances where you listed a home and it didn’t sell? The answer to this question will give you a good feel for the agent’s commitment to communication.

We hope this article has been informative. Drop us a line if you’d like us to write on a specific real estate-related topic.

Selling Vs Renting: Pros and Cons

16/07/13 at 1.04am / by husliadmin / 0 Comment

Selling Vs Renting: Pros and Cons

One of the most common questions I get today is “Should I sell or rent my home?”

The answer of course depends on your individual situation. Both selling your home and renting it out

have its own advantages, as well as disadvantages.

Each real estate market is different, so avoid national news and newspapers, sometimes even local

news can give you wrong information. There are a few ways to go to get the necessary information

you’ll require to make an educated decision.

First you’ll want to speak to a local, professional selling agent as well as a property manager. You

may get 2 or 3 in to give you a spectrum of ideas on price, and other factors involved. Of course, you

could also appoint a professional valuer to give you a valuation on your home in the current market,

but sometimes, they don’t have information that’s as up to date as real estate agents.

Often vendors who can’t sell for the price they’re after will settle on renting till the market heats up,

only to find that they have to pay more also when they purchase later.

Here are four questions to ask yourself when tossing up whether to sell or rent your home out:

1. Can I financially afford to sell my home? If you owe more that your home is worth, and

would have to bring money to the table when selling, renting could be your best option.

2. If I can financially afford to sell my home, should I wait for the market to improve in an

attempt to make up lost equity? This is where a crystal ball would come in handy. You need

to figure out how long you’d be willing to be responsible for that property. Think of the

unexpected. How long will you have to wait for an improvement in the market? Are you

willing to wait that long? Will it be worth the wait?

3. Do I plan to come to come back to the old location again? If yes, it may be a wise move to

rent your home out with the view to moving back one day. If the home won’t suit your

family’s needs in the future, then selling might be the way to go.

4. Am I ready to be a landlord? Being a landlord, especially if you’re moving a distance away,

can be fraught with difficulty. Though if you have a great support team in place, things will

be much easier.

How To Get The Rock Star Hero Shot

16/06/29 at 4.26am / by husliadmin / 0 Comment

How To Get The Rock Star Hero Shot?

This is the thing that cuts through the clutter to capture the buyer’s attention.

The Hero Shot needs to be as attention-grabbing as possible. This is where communication with your photographer is key.

Make a file; show your photographer the style/s you like.

In most cases there will have been some preparation in achieving this image. Much of the time your vendor will have to declutter and de-personalise their property before the photography has been arranged.

Perhaps they have an overcrowded living room? Have them store some furniture off site for the duration of the marketing programme. Maybe they have dated furnishings? Have a stylist come in to assess and quote on rental furniture.

Superior presentation will result in a premium price being achieved in the shortest possible time frame.

The hero shot has to show lifestyle, and have as much space as possible.

Need art for a sad looking wall? Have your vendor try this inexpensive solution – buy a large canvas and paint it in a colour that complements the rest of the house – just one single colour. The effect can be quite dramatic.

Tips for the best hero shot:

Always use a professional photographer, no matter how inexpensive the property is.
Key images are the living areas, kitchen, view and the exterior
The relationship between areas is important. For example – the flow from the living to kitchen, or indoor to outdoor entertainment areas
Express the theme of the home in the hero shot. Ask yourself, “What is the core attraction of this property?”
Twilight images can really enhance your listing. The most amazing shots can be taken during “the magic hour”, when the sun is setting and the sky turns that deep blue. That’s when you’ll get the most vivid colours in the sky, interior and exterior, and really see the details in the properties own lighting. There’s a psychological reason behind why people’s imaginations are captured by twilight photography. You see, primitive man sought shelter for the evening as the sun went down – they would light their fire and settle in for the night. Photographing a home at the magic hour draws on a million years of primal need – shelter. Show a home at the magic hour and people want to live there. Modern man also relates the twilight hour as a time to go home, settle and relax. Make use of this psychological fact in your photography.
Make sure your photographer is using top equipment. The one that we used had his own lighting which is the key to clarity, colour saturation and the brightness of the images. Some photographers digitally add in brightness after the shot has been taken to enhance the shot. This results in poorer quality images.

How Important is Paint Colour?

16/06/07 at 3.09am / by husliadmin / 0 Comment

How Important is Paint Colour?

There are 7 million colours distinguishable to the human eye.

So picking out paint colours can be an extremely confusing experience, leaving you racked with indecision as you peruse swatches from paint companies seemingly intent on driving you crazy!

Trying to figure out which of those colours will mix harmoniously on your living room wall is enough to make you turn straight to the ecru and eggshell-white family and never leave.

One way to go, however, is to use a complementary colour scheme. Proving the rule that opposites attract, these pairings can always be found at opposite ends from each other on a paint colour wheel. When put together, they bring out the best in each other, making both colours look cleaner and brighter than if either were mixed with, say, a neutral grey or a different shade of the same hue.

An essential tool for paint pros everywhere, the colour wheel is constructed to help you see the relationships between different hues. The bases are three primary colours: red, blue and yellow. These are then combined to make the three secondary colours: orange, green, and purple. Finally, the remaining six colours on the wheel are known as tertiary colours and are mixes of the secondary colours, including such hues as red-orange and blue-green.

Familiarising yourself with the colour wheel can help you understand how to best mix and match a cool colour with a warm one, for a naturally balanced room.

The Colour Wheel

10 Vintage Court, Magill, SA SOLD SOLD SOLD

16/05/27 at 3.38am / by husliadmin / 0 Comment

SOLD SOLD SOLD

Want or a high quality, low maintenance home?

Here it is: A free standing Torrens-Titled executive home.
The home is located in an enviable quiet Cul-de-Sac adjacent to parks,a community garden,
and close to all public transport. Additionally,this home is within walking
distance of Magill primary School and Norwood/Morialta High school.
this home is a must view.
Built in 1999 this versatile home boasts 3 bedrooms,
(master with walk in robe and en-suit),large separate lounge,formal dining
and an open living/kitchen. The other 2 bedrooms have built in robes
affording plenty of storage and easy access to the main bathroom.

The dining room and the living room open out onto an extensive undercover
entertaining area, which overlooks an easy care private and secure garden.
To the rear of the home is a custom built shed boasting
power,light and built in cupboards.
The large double garage affords direct
entry to the house and to the rear garden. Additionally, the garage has an attic space,
down lights and can be used as an entertaining space for large gatherings.

3 Things to Consider in Becoming a landlord

16/05/24 at 1.31am / by husliadmin / 0 Comment

In today’s real estate market, when selling your home, it can feel like you have limited options. Values are just beginning to stabilise, and buyers can be scarce. If you are able to sell your home – go for it! This is the best option. But what if you can’t financially afford to sell?

Consider becoming a landlord and renting out your property to a qualified tenant until you are in a better position to sell.

This will provide you with a stream of revenue on your property while successfully moving transitioning into your next home. With a shaky real estate market and increased lender requirements, many would-be buyers are opting to rent versus buy. According to recent news, vacancies are at an all-time low across the country. This means the chance of successfully renting out your property is very good. Before you jump into the rental market though, consider the following:

• Don’t necessarily expect to cover all of your property expenses each month. Though the rental market is hot right now, if you are locked into a high monthly mortgage payment don’t expect it to be covered by rental income each month. Rental prices are dictated by market value. The rental income may only cover a portion of your total costs.
• Screen your tenants carefully. Not only is it important to make sure you have a Tenant that will pay you each month and keep the home in good shape, but you also have to remember that the Tenant’s behaviour will impact your neighbours and community. Choose wisely.
• Mentally prepare yourself to accept that somebody else will be living in your home. This means that typical wear and tear will happen while the Tenant is there. This is normal and should be expected. Any major damage should be covered by the Tenant.