24/09/2026
When you’re selling one home to move into a more expensive one, it’s easy to focus on what your current property may have lost.
But there’s another number worth watching:
The gap between what you own and what you want to buy.
Consider this:
Your current home
$800K → $760K
Your next home
$1.4M → $1.33M
The gap moves from $600K to $570K.
That’s $30K less to bridge.
It’s a simple example — and real property markets are rarely that simple. Different suburbs, property types and levels of demand can move very differently.
But that’s precisely the point.
Upsizing isn’t just about what your current home is worth.
It’s about what the next property costs you to move into.
The headline market movement tells only part of the story.
The right strategy looks at the gap.
