The question most Gawler vendors ask before they list is what their property is worth. The question fewer ask - at least not with the same rigour - is what it is going to cost them to sell it. The gap between sale price and net proceeds is shaped by a range of costs that are entirely predictable if

Take two vendors in the same general area - one in Gawler East, one just across into Evanston. Both have three-bedroom homes on comparable land. Both received appraisals within weeks of each other. The figures came back differently. Neither agent was wrong. The suburbs are simply not the same market

Two decisions determine the shape of a property campaign in Gawler before a single buyer walks through the door. The first is price. The second is method. Most vendors understand that price matters. Fewer understand that method has an equally direct effect on the result - not just on how quickly the

Pricing a Gawler property correctly is necessary but not sufficient. The method through which that price is tested against the market determines whether the campaign generates competition, a single offer, or prolonged silence. Vendors who treat the method decision as an afterthought - something to c

Most Gawler homeowners approach the appraisal process with a version of the same assumption - that the figure an agent gives them reflects what the market will actually pay. Sometimes it does. Often it reflects what the agent thinks the vendor wants to hear, what the agent believes will win the list