You Have Saved Your First 10 Properties, What Next?

Saving your first ten properties to the Dream Account is a start. What you do next determines whether those saves become useful or just a growing collection of things you liked.

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Look for the pattern before you save more

Ten properties is enough to start finding patterns. Before you add an eleventh, look at the ten you have. What do they share? Location type, layout, size, price range, outdoor space, interior style? The pattern is your actual preference, and it's more reliable than any list you'd write from memory.

Identify the two or three you'd most want to visit

Not the most beautiful ones. The ones that feel most like the real thing. If you had to visit two of the ten this weekend, which would they be and why? That instinctive answer tells you something useful about what your brain is actually weighing when it evaluates properties. 

Check the prices against your Dream Wallet goal

If you have a Dream Wallet goal running, cross-check the price range of the properties you're saving against the target you set. If there's a gap between what you're saving and what your savings are working toward, one of them needs to adjust. Either the goal is sized to the right target, or the target has drifted, and the goal needs updating.

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Use the saves to test a new market

If most of your saves are in one market, deliberately browse one other market with similar criteria and save three or four properties there. Compare them directly. You might find that a market you hadn't seriously considered offers significantly better value for the same type of property.

Send one enquiry

Saving is research. Enquiring is action. Sending a direct message to the seller of one property you're genuinely interested in costs nothing and moves you from passive interest to active engagement. Even if nothing comes of it, you'll learn something about the property and the market from the response.

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