Australia’s major cities are still among the world’s most liveable but must avoid complacency if they are to meet the needs and aspirations of our growing population in the ‘metropolitan century’
I firmly believe that auction clearance rates are the property market’s most irrelevant statistic.
If you’re looking at getting into property investment, you’d probably love to secure one that has a tenant in place already.
“Housing affordability is about ‘supply and demand’ and for most of this century there have been constraints on new home building that have limited supply and forced up prices."
Fixed term versus periodic tenancies and why does this matter?
In my experience, many novice developers get too fixated on pushing ahead with their plans, even when the numbers no longer stack up.
Reaching the 25 million population milestone should be the catalyst for the creation of productive, vibrant and liveable cities that will underpin Australia’s future prosperity.
The real estate industry has evolved and morphed and adapted over the last 20 years, and in particular the last five years, with the exponential and unstoppable growth of the digital world and social media.
Any good business person will tell you that having a large sum of money in your savings account is futile, especially while interest rates are at record lows.
With Spring almost upon us, the Brisbane prestige property market is on track to experience healthy growth for the remainder of 2018.
Building approvals have surged across Queensland, with the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showing house approvals up 27 per cent and units up 60 per cent for the month of June.
At the end of advertisements for investment schemes, you’ll hear the catch-all disclaimer, ‘past performance is no guarantee of future performance.’
First National Real Estate’s chief executive, Ray Ellis says that rental reforms announced by the Andrews Government stand to hurt tenants more than they will help them, and will ultimately drive up rental prices.
The Housing Industry Association (HIA) has expressed concern after the introduction of the Federal Contestable Metering legislation last year.
After five years of growth, most have come to accept that the property market has changed in recent times, and that it is no longer purely a seller’s market.