The negotiation stage of a property sale is the part sellers know least about and care most about. They see the opening offer. They see the final number. Everything that happens in between is managed by the agent - and the quality of that management is what determines the gap between the two.

Think about the moment a homeowner realises the figure in their head and the figure buyers are prepared to pay are not the same thing. That gap has a name. It is not a pricing error. It is an emotional one.It is about what the place represented to the people who called it home.This i

It happens often enough that it barely surprises anyone working in this market. A vendor goes live at a price built on hope rather than evidence. The buyer pool - well-informed, actively comparing, not particularly patient - encounters the listing, registers that it is above where comparable propert

Consider a seller receiving buyer feedback after the first open day. The number coming back does not match what they had been planning around. There is a pause. Then the defence begins - and it is not a defence of the evidence.It is about the kitchen they renovated three summers ago.

A vendor in the northern suburbs prepared well, chose a decent agent, and still left money on the table. Not dramatically. Not in a way that was immediately obvious. Just a result that was quietly worse than it needed to be - and the kind that is hard to trace back to a single moment.These a