Australians all know and love the thrill of live football, but how many more matches do we watch on TV?  From the late 1950’s the VFL (now AFL) were concerned that live telecasts of games would affect live attendance. Only a limited number of games each week would be broadcast and these would mostly be […]

The property market has become less and less predictable over recent months. And at Gavl we were curious if the shifts in real estate are having an impact on interstate or overseas purchasing. So we did some digging… THE RESEARCH To learn the answer, we teamed up with leading data and insights company Pureprofile. We […]

Recipient of the Ray White ‘Rising Star’ award in 2012, Tom Grieve’s career trajectory was set to impress. He’s been a premier agent for the Ray White brand for four years running – an accolade that puts him in the top 10% of agents across Victoria. And in the last 12 months alone, Tom has […]

Why sacrifice your weekends/holidays/family-time to the homebuying process? On 24 March, Richard was scheduled to compete in a sailing competition off the coast of Sorrento, Victoria. On the exact same day, the first home he and his wife owned and lived in as young newlyweds was scheduled to go under the hammer. Now a retired […]

In this modern era, we’ve grown accustomed to making any purchase on-the-go from the palm of our hands. So why do we still have to give up our weekends (or worse, our holidays) for the purchase of a home? After spending years researching the market and deciding where and when to buy, Joe Maurici found […]

An update from Gavl’s CTO Leith Donaldson: This month, we’ve been invited to speak at IBM’s global technology mega-conference Think 2018 in Las Vegas. It’s an incredible privilege for me to speak alongside thought leaders from around the world. Heavy hitters such as AT&T, Adidas, Panasonic, Volkswagen, and General Motors are all set to attend […]

The data Gavl’s BidCapture technology collects a wealth of data from each of our livestreamed auctions including the number of bidders and bids, the amount of each bid and the duration of time between bids, just to name a few. From a sample of more than 2500 Gavl auctions in Australia from March to September […]

“Without the Gavl app we wouldn’t have bought the property.”   Neil and Evelyn had looked at several properties, but they had their hearts set on 5/10 Sudeley Street in Orakei. They were understandably disappointed when they learned that the auction was going to be held on a day they’d planned to be away in […]

Gavl was featured in the Australian Financial Review last week announcing Geoff Harris investing a further $1.8 million to develop our product offering. From the Australian Financial Review’s article Rich Lister Geoff Harris invests $1.8m in Gavl: Mr Harris first invested in Gavl late last year, run by former Hawthorn AFL footballer Joel Smith. The […]