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Averages for homes like yours
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What homes like yours have sold for.
Matched automatically to your home's suburb, style and configuration from my sales database. No two homes are alike — the differences between these and yours are exactly what we should talk through.
Comparable sales are drawn from publicly available data and provided as a guide only; all parties should make their own enquiries.
A sale is rarely won by the agent alone — click any card
David has spent more than 25 years in banking and finance — including years inside NAB and Westpac — and now leads a small Brisbane-based team. For my sellers he's the difference between an offer and a settled sale: he helps me qualify buyers quickly and honestly, and when a buyer's finance wobbles mid-contract, David can often find them a path that keeps your sale alive.
0447 817 878Lauren's REIQ-accredited agency has more than 400 purchases behind it, and we speak constantly. Her clients arrive qualified and finance-ready — which means your home can be in front of genuine buyers before a campaign even launches. Pre-market offers like these often set the tone for the entire sale.
0414 221 741·lauren@ljba.com.auMost sales that collapse do so on paperwork, not price. Chantelle runs the local bytherules office at Kenmore — she turns contracts around fast, flags issues before they become disputes, and keeps settlement on schedule. I'll always suggest a few options so you can choose your representative independently.
1300 22 33 44·enquiries@bytherules.com.auMembers of Master Builders Queensland, fully licensed and insured — and they send both a qualified builder and a pest technician to every inspection, with thermal imaging and termite-detection equipment. For some homes I'll recommend a pre-sale inspection so we know what a buyer's inspector will find before they do — priced in upfront rather than negotiated down at the eleventh hour.
1300 862 432·bookings@soundbuildinginspections.com.auOne of Brisbane's leading staging teams, trusted by agencies across the city. They offer vacant, partial and integrated styling — working with your furniture or bringing their own — and their stage-now-pay-later option means presentation doesn't have to come out of your pocket before the sale. Done well, styling consistently returns more than it costs.
1800 503 051·info@sellinstyle.com.auLicensed plumbing maintenance specialists who work with the real-estate sector every day across greater Brisbane — plumbing, hot water and gas. Small plumbing issues have a habit of surfacing in building reports mid-campaign; Viva fixes them before launch, at fair prices, without you having to chase anyone.
0475 521 500·info@vivaplumbing.comFamily owned and operated since 1996, with licensed technicians and thermal imaging on every termite inspection. In Queensland a clean, current termite story genuinely matters to buyers — an up-to-date inspection and management plan removes one of the most common reasons a sale gets renegotiated.
07 3189 1114·0415 559 051Three pillars decide the sale. You already control two.
Every result comes down to three things — you, your property, and the buyers. The first two are already yours; you'd shape them with or without an agent. My job is to take complete control of the third.
You, the seller
Your price expectations, your timing, and how far you're willing to meet the market. These calls are yours to make — and they should be. I advise; you decide.
You control thisYour property
Presentation, condition, and the handful of improvements that lift appeal. You own every one of these decisions — I'll guide them, but the property is yours.
You control thisThe buyers
The one pillar you can't influence from the inside. This is where I come in — and it's where your price is ultimately won or lost.
Where I come inMy final sales price is, on average, 10% above market feedback.
Anyone can sell a property at market rate — selling well above it is the difference. If I had to name one reason I achieve this consistently, it's buyer management: on most of my sales I already know the successful buyer, having built the relationship over the months prior, then placed them in a competitive situation that draws out their very best offer. The numbers below are live from my recent campaigns — not last year's brochure.
| Property | Final | Avg offer | Diff | Appraisal | Diff | Buyers | Offers |
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The suburb, over the years.
Raine & Horne Brisbane West has been part of this pocket for a long time — the numbers below are our office's track record in your suburb.
Questions sellers ask me.
How do offers actually work — and what's the difference between them?
An offer can be conditional — subject to finance, building and pest, or the buyer selling their own home — or unconditional. A higher conditional offer isn't always the better one: a clean unconditional offer $20,000 below it can be the stronger result once you weigh certainty.
Under private treaty, buyers can offer in writing at any time and we negotiate; at auction, bids are unconditional on the day. Whatever the method, my job is the same — every offer in front of you in writing, with an honest read on how likely it is to hold together.
Is this appraisal the same as a valuation?
No — and any agent who blurs the two is doing you a disservice. A valuation is a formal document from a registered valuer, usually for a bank. An appraisal is my professional read on what the market would likely pay, based on comparable sales and current buyer activity. It's a conversation starter, not a promise — the market sets the price, and my job is to make sure it pays full attention.
Does getting an appraisal commit me to selling?
Not at all. A good number of the owners I appraise sell one, two, even five years later — and some don't sell at all. This page stays live for you, and I'm happy to refresh the numbers whenever the market moves or you're curious. No follow-up pressure; that's not how I work.
Should I renovate before selling?
Usually less than you think. Paint, styling and gardens tend to return their cost several times over; kitchens and bathrooms usually don't, because buyers discount renovations that aren't to their taste. The answer is specific to your home — which is why the improvements card above only lists what I'd actually stand behind for your property.
How long does a sale take, start to finish?
Preparation — styling, photography, pre-marketing — usually takes two to three weeks. A well-run campaign typically finds its buyer within three to four weeks of launch, and settlement follows four to six weeks after contract. So from decision to money in the bank, plan on roughly three months — though off-market sales can move much faster when the right buyer already exists.
Let's talk it through.
Whenever you've had a chance to digest everything here, I'm happy to talk it over — in person, by phone or over email. No obligation, and no follow-up pressure.
This page is an indicative market appraisal only and is not a registered valuation. Figures are drawn from publicly available sales data and my knowledge of the local market at the date shown, and may change. Comparable sales are provided as a guide; all parties should make their own enquiries. Nothing on this page constitutes a contract, or financial or legal advice.