Michelle May on the Truth Behind Price Guides in the Sydney Property Market

Michelle was recently interviewed by The Sydney Morning Herald in an article exploring misleading price guides and the toll this takes on buyers. In the piece, Michelle urges home buyers to steer clear of guide prices and instead research sold data to understand true market value.

"Price guides are a way to entice you to come through the property," Michelle explains. “If your budget is well below what similar homes have recently sold for, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment.”

As a trusted buyers agent, Michelle continues to advocate for transparency in the property market and empower buyers with informed strategies.

Sydney's Supercharged Suburbs: What's Driving the Surge in 2025?

With buyer activity picking up and affordability driving demand, certain Sydney suburbs are showing strong signs of future price growth. I recently spoke with Realestate.com.au about what’s fuelling this trend and why apartments are back in the spotlight.

If you're planning to buy in 2025, understanding these shifting dynamics is key to making a smart move before prices clim

Planning to move to a new area? While it’s pretty simple to research property prices, finding out what the social dynamics are of a town or suburb isn’t so easy – yet it’s an important step that buyers should take before committing to a property purchase

Real estate listings have been putting an increasingly creative spin on the truth, with the greater use of generative AI causing a rise in puzzling and generic euphemisms in property marketing.

Making an offer on a home can be a nerve-racking experience, but with a bit of guidance and a few tricks of the trade you can be sure to put your best foot forward.

Listing numbers, that is the number of homes advertised for sale, have risen across major capital cities including Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane according to latest data from CoreLogic.

As the market reflects on a tumultuous 2024, Michelle May, founder and principal of Michelle May Buyers Agents in Sydney, shares her insights on the trends that shaped the year and what's to come in the new year.

Homeowners with boom-time price expectations are failing to sell, and more listings are lingering on the market for six months or longer, fresh data reveals.

For those buying an apartment, the “shiny and new” nature of an Off The Plan development can be an attractive proposition – but it can also be risky.

Here are some of the most important things to consider before buying Off The Plan (OTP)

Conventional wisdom says owning a property for a substantial period of time will ensure a profit on resale, but new analysis shows that isn’t always true.

Over the course of September home prices edged up by just 0.04% across the country, though that was enough to ensure that Australia's median home value rose to a record-high $792,000, according to the latest PropTrack Home Price Index.

Apartments are growing in popularity among homebuyers as the affordability gap between units and houses widens. But when it comes to apartment hunting versus house hunting – there are a lot of differences to keep in mind

While getting a Pest and Building report has long been considered a crucial step in purchasing a property, buyers agents are warning not all reports can be trusted.

Spring, together with its predicted fresh crop of stock, is just around the corner, so when should investors start harvesting the new opportunities and what exactly should they be looking out for? 

The latest PropTrack data showing national house prices climbing to yet another record high - an annual growth rate of 6.79 per cent - comes as no surprise to those in the industry and hopeful first home buyers alike.

Panicked landlords have been dumping their investments en masse after battling higher mortgage payments, with over 40,000 NSW rental homes turned into private housing over the last year

Often, people spend more time working out which car to buy than what house to invest in. That’s mind-blowing when you think how many hundreds of thousands of dollars are involved.

Before you even attend an open home, make sure you do a whole lot of research

For most buyers, winter can be an excellent time to inspect properties and make early bids.

New data released Tuesday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics found the combined value of Australia’s 11,176,100 residential dwellings rose by $209.4 billion to $10.72 trillion in the first three months of the year, despite elevated interest rates and a cost-of-living crisis