A property sale negotiation does not begin when the first offer arrives. By the time an offer is on the table, the conditions for that negotiation have already been set - by how the campaign was run, how buyers were managed, and how much competition the agent built before anyone wrote down a number.What most sellers imagine as negotiation - a back-

Buyer competition is not a market event. It is a campaign outcome. It requires deliberate action, consistent follow-up, and a specific set of behaviours that most agents either do not know or do not execute.The open home is visible. The follow-up is not. Sellers see the number of groups through. They do not see whether those groups were contacted a

When the first offer comes in, most vendors feel relief. The campaign worked. A buyer is interested. The instinct is to move quickly, accept what is there, get it done. That instinct is understandable. It is also one of the most reliable ways to leave money behind.Most of the money that gets left behind in a sale negotiation is lost in small increm

There is a version of selling a property that most vendors never access. Not because it requires unusual skill or access to information others do not have - but because it requires a deliberate approach to the process that most people do not take the time to develop. The vendors who do develop it tend to produce results that are measurably and cons

Someone listed in Gawler last year who did everything right on paper and still walked away short. Nothing obviously wrong. The campaign ran, offers came in, the property sold. But somewhere in the process - a pricing call made too early, a preparation step skipped, a negotiation handled slightly off - the final number came in under what it should h