The million dollar mortgage
What a $1 million mortgage actually buys in Sydney in 2026, and the income you need to service it.
Sydney Eastern Suburbs · Since 1990
This market won't sell your home for you. I will.
— Alan Weiss, Principal
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My philosophy
White glove service
For decades, sellers were told to choose on size — the brand, the office, the number of agents, the turnover.
In a rising market that logic held up. Prices did most of the work, and the biggest name looked like the reason. That market has gone.
The tools are the same for everyone now. The portals, the software, the AI, the campaign templates — all of it is available to any agent, whatever name is on the board. Marketing, listing process, selling method: there is no real difference between one agency and the next.
What differs is how many clients an agent is carrying at once, and how much of the work they do themselves. In a market that has to be worked, you deserve better than a place in the queue.
I take a small number of clients at a time. You get thirty-five years of selling in these streets applied to your sale — and, if you are buying as well, to your purchase — by me, personally, from the first appraisal to the final signature.
The Work
Two ways to work with Alan.
Selling and buying as one move Your sale and your purchase run as a single strategy, timed together. Never caught between homes, never carrying two. Read more Selling One agent from appraisal to settlement. Strategy set on evidence, every serious buyer known by name, your position held to the end. Read more
The market, as it stands
Auction clearance · Sydney Domain
Cash rate RBA
Stock on market · Sydney SQM Research
The Territory
Every suburb, known inside out.
From Bondi to Point Piper — what is selling, what is sitting, and the buildings I quietly steer clients away from.
PrestigeBellevue HillMedian $8.8M LuxuryDouble BayMedian $7.2M PrestigeVaucluseMedian $9.5M ExclusivePoint PiperMedian $29M+ HarboursideDarling PointMedian $11.2M ClifftopDover HeightsMedian $6.9M WaterfrontRose Bay Blue RibbonWoollahra BeachsideBondiMedian $1.28M (u) IconBondi BeachMedian $1.25M (u) Blue ChipNorth BondiMedian $4.2M CoastalBronteMedian $5.4M CoveClovellyMedian $4.8M EliteTamaramaMedian $6.5M VillagePaddingtonMedian $2.95M UrbanPotts PointMedian $830K (u) HubBondi Junction ConnectedEdgecliff EstablishedWaverley ParksideCentennial Park
Clients
In their own words.
From Alan
The thinking behind the advice.
Latest films
The writing
A conversation about your property.
Not a pitch and not an appraisal you have to act on. An hour with someone who has sold in your street, so you know what the property is worth and what the market will do with it this year.