We started Trow Jones to offer a bespoke real estate service that has the client’s best interest at its heart. What does that mean? Some properties may be best suited to an on-market campaign, but not necessarily an auction. Some clients may wish to sell their property discreetly. An off-market sale may be the best…
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Not since my time money broking in London have I heard so many people ‘talking their own book’. What does that mean? By way of example, I’ve been speaking with a lot of property developers lately while selling development sites in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. Buyers tell me the world is about to end,…
The real estate industry has been turned on its head in the last few weeks and must adapt quickly to new rules in place to help slow the spread of COVID-19. At Trow Jones, we’ve always done viewings by appointment and prefer private treaty sales over auctions. We only require one physical inspection to get…
Hot on the heels of our first on-market sale in Bronte, I’ve just sold another Bronte property with incredible ocean views off-market for $5.2m. Our vendor is over the moon because they didn’t have to pay a cent on marketing and only had to prepare the property for two viewings. The vendor had sold two…
We’ve just sold our first on-market property and set a new residential record in Bronte for dollars per square metre! We didn’t run an auction campaign (which agents do to put time pressure on both buyers and sellers) and we didn’t hold twice-weekly open-homes (which can be stressful for the vendor and sometimes unnecessary). Instead,…
Returning home to Australia after 12 years in finance in London, the plan was to obtain my real estate licence to be the sales arm of a small property-developing syndicate in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. Teaming up with an architect-developer and a builder, we’ve purchased a cluster of adjacent sites to develop and then…