What do the numbers mean?

James Home Ratings is a tool to make property decisions easier, quicker and more accurate.

Nobody can predict with complete certainty the behaviour of each individual buyer or seller in a property exchange - however it is possible to predict with a high level of certainty how large groups of human beings will react to a home.

That is, there are a body of facts or truths when systematically analysed that show the operation of general laws with regards to home exchange. It is therefore a science as mathematics or medicine is.

The Science of Property has laws - We have based our James Home Ratings and CAN system on laws that we have developed over time.

To best match an owner's outcomes (financial and emotional) to a home's characteristics (price, property and position) we have found that the following process works.

It has three parts

Once a rating is completed a score out of 1000 is calculated and this allows you the user to:

• compare ALL properties against each other
• compare the properties you are looking at against each other.
• know what most other buyers think of your property
• know the long term growth potential of each property
• know whether the targeted property is any good or not.
• know whether or not it is any good for your needs.

We only show the Property Characteristics (Step 2) score for public display on this website

Our clients have the benefit of the three step scoring process on each property. We only select a small amount of properties to display on our website, but we in fact have a large database of listed properties available to clients.

The total max. rating is out of 1000

What is the benefit of a Property Characteristics score?
It lessens the chance of you buying an overall poor property with one dominating good feature or missing a good property which has minor negative features.

• Below 550 - Has Issues
• 550-650 - Low end of Average
• 650-700 - High end of Average
• 700-800 - Well Above Average
• 800-850 - Best of It's Type
• Above 850 - Rare Gem

Developed over many years with an Australian Innovation Patent and International Patents pending, it is now being used by thousands of residential homebuyers. All ratings are completely objective – we receive no money from the sellers or selling agents and ratings are only carried out by licensed and fully trained James buyer advocates or architects.