Greville Pabst's Buyers Agent Report on The Block on Inside Out

Inside Out published Greville Pabst's buyers agent report on The Block 2018, written after the advocates' first walk-through of the five apartments at the Gatwick.

Greville, alongside Nicole Jacobs and Frank Valentic, assessed the apartments roughly halfway through the build, and the report is written from a buyer's perspective rather than a judge's.

The questions he applies run consistently across all five. Does the living and dining space work, since that is where buyers spend their time. Is there enough storage, and a walk-in robe worth remembering. Is the master suite proportionate to the apartment, and is there a single feature memorable enough that a buyer talks about it afterwards.

His sharpest criticism is reserved not for workmanship but for teams who have not worked out who they are selling to, and he argues that styling has to answer to the Gatwick's location in St Kilda rather than to a more conservative address.

The two penthouses draw his interest for their ceiling heights and terraces, though he notes both are smaller than the apartments below, and he closes on a professional caveat, that a strong result depends on reserves reflecting market conditions as they stood.

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