The standard property investment checklist - median trend, yield, entry price, comparable growth - works well in established markets. Applied unchanged to land-release suburbs, it produces a picture that looks similar but behaves differently. The supply dynamic is not the same, and the investment ca

First home buyers and entry-level investors are the heaviest users of suburb median data. They are also the buyers most likely to be researching the suburbs where that data is least statistically reliable. The irony is not accidental - it follows directly from how affordable markets work.Aff

The Adelaide house price median is the number everyone quotes and almost nobody interrogates. It appears in news headlines, agent appraisals, and suburb reports as though it were a precise measurement of what property is worth. It is not. It is a measurement of what sold - and those two things are o

Three agents. Same property. Appraisals that differ by $40,000 to $60,000. It happens more often than vendors expect, and when it does the instinct is to assume someone is wrong. Usually no one is. Appraisal is interpretation, and interpretation produces a range of legitimate conclusions from the sa

The Adelaide house price median is the number everyone quotes and almost nobody interrogates. It appears in news headlines, agent appraisals, and suburb reports as though it were a precise measurement of what property is worth. It is not. It is a measurement of what sold - and those two things are o