Citylife International is a private Australian real estate sales, advisory, research and consultancy company, with a focus on Melbourne.

As your trusted partner, Citylife International is dedicated to transparency, responsiveness, and unwavering dependability. With our strong negotiation skills, we aim to maximise results, ensuring every seller achieves their goals with confidence.

Partnering, Trust and Service :

The principles of Citylife have decades of local knowledge and experience advising and consulting on Melbourne real estate sales.
Citylife International is an independent property agency providing personal service.
 
 

CITYLIFE INTERNATIONAL:

  • Private Advisory for sellers
  • Real Property Selling Services for selected clients
  • Property Marketing Advisory and assistance to sellers
  • Exclusive Sellers Access to overseas buyers and
  • Personal, dependable consultation
 
Aurient BTR projects focus on Melbourne

Services & Expertise

CITYLIFE INTERNATIONAL:

  • Is research driven
  • Has a close relationship with sellers as partners
  • Is responsive and trustworthy, transparent and open
  • Provides personal and bespoke white gloves selling experience
  • Is focused on value creation, downside protection and risk mitigation

"Mike leverages his credibility, negotiation skills, knowledge, reputation, and strong contacts to provide a unique personal service with an integrity not often seen in the real estate business"

Dave Staffor

416- 418 St. Kilda Road.

Citylife also consults with, provides research for, and advises owners of the units of the residential towers 416, 416A and 418 St Kilda Road on the sales rates, square metre rates, demand, marketing and strategy to best achieve maximim prices in the shortest possible time.

418 St Kilda Road, Melbourne

24 Common and Costly Selling Mistakes... and How to Avoid Them ALL

 Selling your home or investment property is something you will likely only do once or twice in your life.

No wonder very few have any knowledge on how to do it, and why it so often costs them tens of thousands, and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Download Your FREE guide now, and put more, much more, money in YOUR pocket.

"Over many years, I have seen most sellers make numerous mistakes when selling. There are 24 expensive and common mistakes I have identified. Most sellers make at least 4 or 5 of them! And I devised a simple and low cost solution to avoid making these mistakes too which I explain in the final Chapter." Mike Bentley

While specifically designed for overseas owners of Australian property, it equally applies for anyone selling a property in Australia.

 

"Foreign economies had a total of AU$4.5 trillion invested in Australia at the end of 2022, up from $3.8 trillion in 2019"

Source: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

THE CITYLIFE ADVANTAGE

What is The "Citylife Advantage?"

BACKGROUND
Australia invests trillions of dollars in overseas businesses, and other economies invest trillions in Australia.
The United States and United Kingdom are the biggest investors in Australia, followed by Belgium, Japan and Singapore.
China is our tenth largest foreign investor, with 1.9 per cent of the total.
However, the levels of Hong Kong (SAR of China) and investment in Australia have grown significantly over the past decade.
The table shows the top 10 foreign investors in Australia at the end of 2022. Yearly values are in A$ billion and include both direct, property, portfolio investment and other investment.
Australia has the 14th highest amount of direct foreign investment in the world.

Chart as at July 2022

Citylife International Foreign Direct Investment in Australia is expected to reach 38000.00 AUD Million by the end of 2022, according to Trading Economics
Unlike traditional estate agents who simply rely on placing expensive ads on the real estate websites to attract buyers, Citylife International has several distinct and unique competitive advantages when selling a property.
The first is Citylife has direct access to Hong Kong based property buyers looking to buy back in Australia.
 By virtue of its long standing award-winning international agency work in Hong Kong, Citylife has thousands of expats, new migrants and Permanent Residents of Australia in Hong Kong on it's books looking for Aussie property. (2024 database in excess of 2,000)
ALL, every single one, registered with us to get Australian property information and properties for sale.
Large agencies may say they will "advertise internationally" but actually have little clue how or where to do it, and it is your money they will be throwing away on marketing, with no chance of reaching the right buyers.
Citylife is the only company in Australia that has an active HK buyers database.
(Others say they have 'local agents"'representing them)
Secondly, Citylife has exclusive connections with the HK Groups who have recently arrived or migrated to Melbourne and are looking for homes and investments. Don't under estimate the tremendous cash buying power of this group!
Thirdly, and importantly, Citylife does not have a "huge machine to feed", meaning turnover is not important to us, but personal service and a white glove treatment of all our clients is.
And finally, the "secret sauce" ... Citylife has introduced the best of international selling strategies seldom seen in Australia into the equation, to help vendors reap maximum returns, without it costing a fortune.  No more giving your property to the agent who quotes the "highest sales price" with a special "just for you" reduced commission rate, and by the way, $8K up front in "marketing" with an auction in 3 weeks, when the market will "decide the price"!

 

"I find your knowledge of the property scene and the first hand information you give, very very useful"

PKS,

"I have known Michael Bentley for over 20 years, from the time he was running the Ben Boyd office in Hong Kong - that is when I first met him as I wished to invest into the Australian property market. I can attest to his extensive real estate knowledge and personal integrity"
Alex Suvoltos

"I have Known Michael Bentley for over twenty five during my career as a corporate banker in Asia and have always held him in high regard for his personal integrity and knowledge of the property market in which he operates"

Graham Grover

 "Michael, You are without doubt the best Australian property agent I have come across, and certainly the most honest agent I have ever dealt with. Thanks for all your help over the years"

Sergio Anacleto

 

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We provide research, information, research, advice, marketing, consultancy and other services to our global client base and Australian property sellers.