After years of a burgeoning property market, it’s easy to become deflated by falling house prices and reduced demand, a shift that has largely been lead by the banks introducing tighter lending criteria, coupled with cautious purchasers who suspect prices will fall further.
Over the past year there has been a surge in first home buyer activity, in fact first home buyers have been one of the only sources of growth in housing related activity, but are they now fading from the market?
Staging your home for sale doesn't need to be expensive. Here's how you can do it on a budget.
If you’re going to sell your home and don’t know one sales agent from the next, there are a few things you should know before retaining one.
As the results of the 2018 CoreLogic ‘Perceptions of Real Estate Agents’ survey showed, in the real estate game, there’s no substitute for people and sales skills, and you simply won’t do your listings justice without excelling in communication. But a little bit of smart tech can go a long way, for every agent.
Deteriorating economic conditions and collapsing consumer confidence will push the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) off the interest rate fence, with a cut in the already record-low cash rate possible after the federal election, says leading mortgage aggregator Finsure Group.
A strata-titled property has varied forms, so it is important to know the differences and to read and understand what they mean.
One of the investment rules I firmly believe is, ‘Property is not a passive investment vehicle’.
The royal commission results are in and it’s grim reading. Banks and cornerstone financial institutions have been taken to task over their indefensible treatment of loyal customers and the recommendations will be accepted in full by the Government, as they should be.
Big Brother is now watching in many apartment buildings with the installation of closed-circuit television (CCTV) proving to be a highly successful way for community schemes to significantly boost security and protect their residents, says Archers the Strata Professionals.
With the Federal Election in May likely to lead to a change of government, a prominent real estate CEO is predicting that Labor’s negative gearing policies will not have the desired effect of boosting the volume of first home buyers in the market, but instead lead to a possible influx of overseas investors.
There are a couple of schools of thought around auctions when it comes to market conditions.
When Labor announced its policy to restrict negative gearing, Sydney’s property market was soaring, and its median house price had hit $1 million. Unfortunately, for Labor, much has changed since those heady days.
Brisbane’s optimistic property outlook has encouraged owners and ‘flippers’ to spend-up on renovation plans.
What is smart home technology? The answer to this ranges from total home automation where budget is limitless to a start point of just one or two operations perhaps voice controlled by your Google Home device or an Amazon Alexa unit.