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  • Profile photo of timocalltimocall
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    Hi All,

    I’m looking to purchase a block of units as a long-term investment and have identified one in a decent area. There are 7 units in the block and they all sit on the one land title. The agent has provided me with the individual valuations for each unit should I wish to split them to strata titles and the total value for them comes to $800K, whilst the asking price for the property is $1.2M. I may be well off the mark but a 50% markup seems very high to me considering if I were to split these to strata titles there would be an additional expense incurred also.

    Am I completely off the mark in baulking at the 1.2M asking price here or am I missing something obvious?

    Thanks in advance,

    Tim

    Profile photo of Ethan TimorEthan Timor
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    Hey Tim,

    Something seems off to me. $800k for 7 units means an average price of $115. Does that sound right to you based on your local market knowledge?

    If so, how does the vendor’s agent justify the price for the block to be higher than strata? Usually it’s the other way around 🙈

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    Profile photo of Corey BattCorey Batt
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    That doesn’t sound right – generally pre-strata’d properties are sold at a discount compared to if they were all on seperate titles.

    Either they’ve got their numbers muddled, theres a misunderstanding or they have no clue what they’re doing!

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