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 rewards advocates, not volume.
— Alan Weiss, Principal
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The market, as it stands
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The Practice
For a decade the market did the selling.
Low rates, rising prices, a brand on the board.
That market has gone.
What lifts a price now is the work — knowing every serious buyer, holding a position, arguing your case for weeks rather than a weekend.
Thirty-five years, a thousand sales, several markets like this one. I still take every listing myself, from first appraisal to 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 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.
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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.