25 Nov, 2020 | Community, Latest
The 16 Days of Activism – Respect Women, Call It Out Information and initiative powered by the Warrnambool Court Network The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is a global initiative galvanising individuals, communities and organisations to...
20 Nov, 2020 | Latest, Renting, Videos
Introducing you to property management, the way it should be. Here at Wilsons, for a while now, we’ve seen a gap in the local property management market when it comes to customer service. If you look historically at online reviews of local real estate agencies,...
5 Nov, 2020 | Buying, Community, Latest, Selling
Here are the tricks used by the professionals Slapping some paint on a wall – easy! But achieving a meticulous finish requires some careful preparation. If you are planning on a DIY paint job, here are some tricks of the trade to help you achieve a finish that even...
29 Oct, 2020 | Latest, Renting
HOW EASY IS IT TO CHANGE PROPERTY MANAGERS? Article by The Property Management Team at Wilsons Do you own an investment property? Does your current property manager really manage it as if it is their own? Or do you think that maybe, if only it were easy to change...
16 Oct, 2020 | Buying, Latest, Selling
It is a very exciting time for a local family who have just secured their dream home! Carol enquired on a property a little while ago and whilst that home didn’t suit perfectly, we created a wanted ad for her which we advertised on our social media platforms, our...
7 Oct, 2020 | Buying, Latest, Videos
…harmonise with the surrounding landscape… Here at Wilsons Warrnambool & District Real Estate, we are delighted to present to the marketplace one of, if not the finest, properties in town – an absolute central seaside masterpiece. The design and...
6 Oct, 2020 | Buying, Community, Latest, Selling, Videos
Can you believe it? Live in Heavenly Halls Gap and get paid over $200,000 per annum for the privilege! Wilsons Warrnambool & District Real Estate are pleased to present to the market this once in a lifetime opportunity to combine a wonderful home lifestyle with a...
1 Oct, 2020 | Buying, Community, Latest, Selling
Article by Cheryl McKenna, Wilsons office manager and licensed estate agent. Many people distrust salespeople; in fact according to a quick google search, 97% of us don’t trust sales people. The only people we trust less are politicians and car salesmen. ...
12 Sep, 2020 | Buying, Community, Latest, Selling, Videos
HALLS GAP COTTAGES – FOR SALE UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY PRICED FROM $210,000 – $240,000 Wilsons Warrnambool & District Real Estate are excited to present to the marketplace 15 x 2 bedroom hardwood cottages for sale for the use of holiday homes (and/or...
23 Aug, 2020 | Community, Latest
Aricle by Ian Lamb, salesperson at Wilsons. I have been thinking for a while about a topic I would like to write about during the current COIVD 19 Pandemic. I’ve chosen a topic that is very personal in the hope it might lead to other people reaching out during these...
12 Aug, 2020 | Community, Latest
Here at Wilsons Warrnambool & District Real Estate, through covid lockdown 2.0, we have 2 priorities: Achieving fantastic results for our clients, andTo look after each other. The property market remains strong, and Wilsons are your private sale, private...
31 Jul, 2020 | Buying, Community, Latest, Selling
Article by Cheryl McKenna – Office manager and Licensed estate agent. Originally known as the township of Mount Shadwell, the town of Mortlake was originally settled over 180 years ago. Being particularly fertile ground, the area was quickly populated by...
20 Jul, 2020 | Community, Latest
Article by Cheryl McKenna – office manager and licensed estate agent. “Support local business” is a catch cry we hear often, but why is it important? Does it really make that much of a difference? With large chain stores now stocking everything from milk and...
8 Jul, 2020 | Latest, Selling
Are you thinking of selling in the relatively near future? Maybe you’re waiting until you get a few things done around the house, or waiting for the timing to be right which is not quite yet? Maybe you’re waiting to find your next property to buy? ...
22 Jun, 2020 | Buying, Community, Latest, Selling
Article by Cheryl McKenna, Office manager and licensed estate agent Moving house. The phrase strikes fear into many a heart. Ranked as more stressful than divorce, moving house is in fact included in the top 5 stressful life events. Some of us do it once in a...
22 Jun, 2020 | Community, Latest
Article by Cheryl McKenna, office manager and licensed estate agent. Is there anything more uplifting than to see than your dog, in amongst a group of other pooches all running flat out happily around the dog park? Or the lone Border Collie who chases the ball, being...
18 Jun, 2020 | Buying, Latest
Wilsons Warrnambool & District Real Estate are excited to present to the market thirteen quality townhouses to be sold off the plan and built immediately by Mark Conlan’s @Select Homes. This development is in a prime location at 93-97 Nicholson Street, a...
17 Jun, 2020 | Latest, Selling, Videos
Check out the wonderful renovation that Michelle and Gary completed on their house in Warrnambool, and hear from a delighted vendor, very pleased with the sale, which happened within a few days of going to market, with roughly 15 inspections, 7-8 offers, and a sale...
17 Jun, 2020 | Buying, Community, Latest
Article by Cheryl McKenna – Office Manager, and licensed estate agent. HomeBuilder Program The HomeBuilder program is a time-limited grant program to help the residential construction market to bounce back from the Coronavirus crisis. But before we get into that...
17 Jun, 2020 | Buying, Community, Latest
Article by Cheryl McKenna – Office manager, licensed estate agent – and now we can add – real estate blogger! Back in my day, credit was something you needed to make a call on your mobile, or a score that my friends got at uni. And having multiple...
14 Jun, 2020 | Community, Latest
Article by Cheryl McKenna – Office Manager, and licensed estate agent. Ahhh, there is nothing better than mowing your back lawn, then your front lawn, then having to get the mower through the front gate and mow the nature strip – said no person ever! Especially...
14 Jun, 2020 | Buying, Community, Latest
Article by Cheryl McKenna – Office Manager, and licensed estate agent. North, south, east, west? Which aspect is the best? In many a real estate write up you will read “boasting a northerly aspect”, but what does this mean, and why is a northerly aspect so...
13 Jun, 2020 | Buying, Community, Latest
Article by Cheryl McKenna – Office Manager and licensed estate agent. What’s your number baby? What’s in a number? It depends on who you ask. For many cultures around the world numbers can dictate many things, from who you marry, whether you are a lucky person...
13 Jun, 2020 | Buying, Latest, Selling
Article by Cheryl McKenna – Office manager, and licensed estate agent It began with a conversation with a lady enquiring on a property that we had for sale. All said quickly without a pause or even time to take a breath! “I’d like to have a look at the house on...
13 Jun, 2020 | Buying, Community, Latest, Selling
Article by Cheryl McKenna – Office manager and licenced estate agent. What’s your style? Do you love a classic Californian Bungalow or are you a fool for the decorative filigree of the mid to late Victorian Era? Does walking into an Edwardian home evoke...
13 Jun, 2020 | Buying, Latest
Article by Cheryl McKenna – office manager and licenced estate agent. The advice I gave my younger sister The conversation started with a text message “So I am inspecting that house I mentioned tomorrow at noon, and low-key freaking out about it. Not sure what...
10 Jun, 2020 | Community, Latest
How did you spend your time during the Covid-19 restrictions and isolation? Opinion piece by Rhianna Amos – Sales Agent at Wilsons Warrnambool & District Real Estate. I preface this article with it being just a general overview, not a qualified insight....
10 Jun, 2020 | Community, Latest
Article by Rhianna Amos – Sales Agent at Wilsons This year, amid the current pandemic, I needed a challenge. Not just any old challenge, something that would also make a difference. A cause that I was passionate about. Coincidently the next week I was asked to...
2 Jun, 2020 | Latest, Selling
Article by Lucas Wilson In what may come as a big surprise, the month of May, 2020 – 3 months since the covid-19 pandemic began here – saw the highest number of buyer enquiries into the Wilsons office since before 2016, when we started recording their...
21 May, 2020 | Buying, Latest, Selling
Commentary by Lucas Wilson. Scour the media any day at present and you don’t have to look far to find extremely pessimistic property market price forecasts due to the current climate and subsequent economic factors. I’m no economist, however an important...
14 May, 2020 | Buying, Community, Latest, Renting, Selling
Article by Lucas Wilson. As we move further along the timeline of the crisis that is the coronavirus pandemic, and seemingly stepping gradually towards the light at the end of the tunnel, I couldn’t be more proud of our team here at Wilsons. Our staff,...
1 May, 2020 | Buying, Community, Latest, Selling
We have a wonderful surprise to share with you: People are still buying real estate! We admittedly braced ourselves for a complete shutdown of our industry a few weeks ago, seemingly headed for an inability to inspect houses. Our inboxes were flooded with digital...
9 Apr, 2020 | Latest, Selling
We can’t give anyone a high five at the moment, but here are 5 reasons to consider Wilsons as your agent if you wish to sell during the covid-19 pandemic, or immediately after the storm passes: 1. We are private sale specialists, unaffected by the restrictions...
26 Mar, 2020 | Community, Latest
We rise by lifting others. -Robert Ingersoll Whilst many of us, be it individually or as a business, are in survival mode, there are still absolutely things everyone can do to help others as we are all in this Coronavirus pandemic crisis together, and we’ll all...
29 Aug, 2019 | Latest, Selling
8 Elements that will make your Real Estate Sale a Smart Sale The Smart Sale Strategy is clever as it is an integrated system, it is not a slapped together collection of dysfunctional parts. When planning for your SMART SALE various elements need to be considered in...
22 Aug, 2019 | Buying, Latest, Selling, Videos
Hear from Narelle and Ben about why they chose Wilsons and how they finished $25,000 ahead of what they were thinking they would, thanking Wilsons for going “above and beyond”. Thank you guys for jumping behind the iphone camera without notice! Thank you...
14 Apr, 2019 | Latest, Selling
We love hearing from our clients after their transaction is complete. Client feedback gives us a chance to look for opportunities to improve on our service, as well as recognising aspects we are doing right. Our business is a people business more so than a house...
9 Apr, 2019 | Buying, Community, Latest, Selling
We’d like to shout you dinner to the tune of $150! Valid any time with no end date, if you refer someone to us who is thinking of selling – and they list their property for sale with us, we’ll give you a $150 dinner voucher for a restaurant in the...
1 Apr, 2018 | Community, Latest
The word Warrnambool originates from the local Indigenous Australians name for a nearby volcanic cone. It is interpreted to mean many things including land between two rivers, two swamps or ample water. A popular legend is that the first Europeans to discover...
12 Feb, 2017 | Latest, Selling
When you are looking at putting a property on the market, the decision that will likely have the biggest impact on your net financial outcome, and peace of mind, is your choice of agent. It’s important to know what’s important when making this choice....