As they search far and wide for their dream home, they’ll spend 5 lunch hours a week trawling through 426 property listings online, and several tea breaks finding the best variable interest rate. Every Saturday, they’ll drive 3.2 hours around town to view prospective homes. He’ll spend 12% of this time arguing with their GPS, but on average they’ll make it to 3 properties. 2 of which are indeed average. And 1 that could be the one. Despite the oven being too small.

Come Sunday, they’ll head to their favourite breakfast hotspot and spend 2.4 hours dissecting the paper; discussing which houses in what suburb went for how much, and when. And an additional 56 minutes comparing house wish lists (his has a wine cellar; hers a bath with feet).

It’s exciting times for Paul and Tess. We have another 1,834,000 home buyers just like them nationally, hunting for a home to call their own. And this is just one example of the power our people have.