The real cost of selling a home in Perth
What it actually costs to sell a home in Perth: agent fees, marketing, settlement, and the hidden costs nobody…
Resources
Straight answers, written down.
Plain-English guides to selling, owning and buying property in Western Australia, from the team at Boutique Realty Perth.
Selling
Guides for sellers.
How to choose a real estate agent (and the questions that expose the wrong one)
A practical checklist for choosing a selling agent in Perth: evidence to demand, questions to ask and the red …
Preparing your home for sale: what moves the price and what wastes your money
Which pre-sale improvements actually return their cost in Perth, which to skip, and how to sequence preparatio…
Auction vs private treaty in WA: choosing the right method for your sale
How auctions, private treaty and off-market sales actually perform in Western Australia, and how to choose the…
Property styling: when it pays, what it costs and how to brief it
Does professional property styling pay for itself in Perth? When to style fully, partially or not at all, and …
The WA settlement process explained for sellers
What happens between accepting an offer and settlement day in Western Australia: contracts, conditions, settle…
Selling an investment property: tenants, timing and tax realities
How to sell a tenanted investment property in WA: lease obligations, vacant-possession strategy, presentation …
Downsizing in Perth: a calm, practical playbook
A practical downsizing guide for Perth homeowners: sequencing the sale and purchase, choosing the next home, d…
Landlords
Guides for landlords and investors.
The Perth landlord’s guide to getting management right
What good property management looks like in Perth: tenant selection, rent strategy, maintenance discipline and…
Rental appraisals: how achievable rent is really assessed
How a professional rental appraisal works in Perth: the evidence behind achievable rent, what lifts it, and wh…
Maintenance strategy for investment properties: protect the asset, not just the inbox
A maintenance strategy for WA landlords: urgent vs planned work, preventative care that protects capital value…
WA tenancy law: what every landlord needs to understand
Western Australia’s Residential Tenancies Act in plain English for landlords: bonds, entry rights, rent increa…
Maximising rental returns: the levers that actually move the number
Practical levers for lifting rental returns in Perth: targeted improvements, rent review discipline, vacancy m…
Switching property managers: easier than you think, costlier to delay
How switching property managers works in WA: notice on your current agreement, what transfers automatically, t…
The western suburbs rental market: what landlords should understand
What drives rental demand in Perth’s western suburbs: tenant profiles, school catchments, the QEII effect and …
Depreciation and tax for landlords: the conversation to have with your accountant
A plain-English orientation to investment property depreciation, deductions and records for WA landlords, fram…
Buying
Guides for buyers and market watchers.
Buying in Perth’s western suburbs: a strategist’s guide
How to buy well in Perth’s tightly held western suburbs: getting access to scarce stock, reading micro-markets…
First home buyer’s guide to WA: from deposit to keys
A calm walkthrough for WA first home buyers: deposits and assistance schemes, pre-approval, choosing where to …
Buying off-the-plan: the questions that protect you
How to buy off-the-plan safely in Perth: developer due diligence, contract clauses that matter, valuation risk…
Reading the Perth property market: a framework instead of a forecast
A framework for reading the Perth property market yourself: supply, population, construction costs and credit,…
School catchments and property: how schooling shapes western-suburbs prices
How school catchments influence property prices in Perth’s western suburbs, how to verify a boundary before bu…
Renovating for profit in Perth: the maths most renovators skip
Which renovations add value in Perth, which destroy it, and the buy-renovate-sell arithmetic that decides prof…
The complete moving checklist: six weeks to settled
A six-week moving checklist: utilities, redirections, removalists, settlement-day logistics and the first-week…
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