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"Darlington is a village in Perth's Darling Ranges, 20km from the CBD. Figures from the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia show the median house price in Darlington in the March quarter was $305,000, an increase of 15.1 percent in 12 months. The five-year average annual growth rate was 12.2 percent while the highest sale price in the village in the March quarter was $1.245 million... The best street in Darlington is Dalry Rd." -- Weekend Australian, p42, Aug 14-15 |
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Price & sale systemWe want $395,000 for the house. You are getting a lot: a one-off, architect-designed place, with tonnes of jarrah in it (now getting rarer and rarer, because of cutting restrictions in the old forests). We bought the house from the architect owner by private sale. He didn't have a real estate agent, so we just filled out a standard Offer and Acceptance Form. The form went to a settlement agent, who at little cost completed the searches and provided the legal framework. For more information on this system: Functions of a real estate settlement agent -- a DOLA publication. So that system works. That's what we will do, if you want to buy the house: fill out the form, we all sign it, and turn it over to our settlement agents (you have one to look after you, and we have one to look after us). That's it. And you save $16,000. That's how much extra we'd have to get for the house if we used a real estate agent, in order to end up with the $395,000 we want.* * *SOLD 6 Dec 2004. But we are leaving this website here, because it may help others who want to sell their house this way. Here are a few tips on how to do it: how to sell your house privately. |