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If you missed the excitement of last Tuesday’s (September 10th) Auction event, you’ll be pleased to know that the success of our latest In-Room auctions confirmed that the Spring selling season is generating plenty of traction for buyers and sellers alike in the City of Moonee Valley.

The Barry Plant Group is once again embracing the spirit of giving this October with their annual "Wishtober" event, in support of Make-A-Wish® Australia. For every property sold in October, Barry Plant will donate a portion of the commission to Make-A-Wish. Over the past decade, this initiative has raised over $1 million, demonstrating the network's commitment to community and making a difference.

Here we are, one week into the official Spring selling season for the Moonee Valley property market, and we’re already seeing lots of indications of an active and exciting few months for sellers and buyers alike.

Recent market data has confirmed that property listing numbers have seen a pleasing increase in the lead-up to the official start of Spring. So it’s probably a good opportunity to remind everyone of the important role that negotiations can play in achieving a positive result in today’s market.

Once again this week, we’ve seen further signs of buyer confidence in the Moonee Valley property market, including several pre-auction sales being completed when buyers have been unwilling to wait until the scheduled auction day.

We’ve been talking about the possibility of an early start to the Spring selling season in Melbourne for a few weeks now, so the arrival of a few sunny days with warmer temperatures this week did noharm to that perception.

North-west suburbs: Strong winter market as buyers 'out in force'.

If you’re a regular reader of these Updates you’ll probably already be aware that we have been suggesting for a few weeks that Melbourne’s Spring Market may have started a little early this year.

There’s an old saying that “A week is a long time in politics”. Indeed, a week can be a long time in quite a few different fields (football anyone?). But if the past seven days are anything to judge by, a week is a long time in real estate too.

If you were out and about in the City of Moonee Valley on Saturday, you won’t need me to tell you that the weather was decidedly wintery at times. As a result, we were forced to take several of this week’s auctions indoors for the comfort of all concerned, but that didn’t stop several very happy vendors from achieving outstanding sales results despite the rain.

The steady rain forced several of our auctions indoors on Saturday, while the chilly weather had a lot of Melbourne residents reaching for their overcoats and puffer jackets this week…but the inclement conditions didn’t seem to impact the results of our vendors this week.

The weather this week has clearly been wintery, but there was more than a hint of an early Spring market among the long list of sales results our team has achieved recently.