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A Night At The Museum: Place Ascot’s Auction Series continues at Queensland Maritime Museum

A night out for friends and clients of Place Ascot serves as a way to bring life back to the museum, an integral part of Brisbane’s history.

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The Economy

Here is one simple step to maximise cash this financial year - BMT

June 30 is just around the corner and time is running out for property investors to do all they can to reduce the tax they pay at lodgement time.

New South Wales (NSW)

People

Get to know Matt Luff of REAL Specialists

A former ARERA Rookie of the Year, Matt is eager to showcase his community spirit with his clients and vendors in Northern NSW.

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Featured Property

The Agency's Geoff Lucas sold his mother's Darling Point apartment for $6.55 million in two days

Geoff Lucas The Agency's Group CEO mother’s waterfront apartment in Darling Point sold this weekend after two days on the market for $6.55 million – the guide had been $4.8 million.

New South Wales (NSW)

Featured Property

Northern NSW acreage for sale, only a few minutes from the beach - REAL Specialists

Offering potential to run businesses or produce a steady income, this semi rural property is for sale by Shaun Cardillo of REAL Specialists, in conjunction with Oscar Van Megchelen of Pottsville Beach First National.

National

The Economy

Are the Benefits of Negative Gearing property a fallacy or is it a clever way to grow your asset portfolio?

When it works well, negative gearing can be good says, Ben Johnston, Managing Director of Johnston Advisory.

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The Economy

John McGrath – Pockets of value for buyers

John McGrath founder and executive director of McGrath Estate Agents looks at the suburbs where purchasers have more buying power, for now...

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Design

Get to know Amanda Tan

WILLIAMS MEDIA talks with Amanda Tan a senior project manager at Turner and Townsend who are leading some of Australia’s biggest projects.

International National

Design

Savills Research have released their Spotlight on Global Living Report 2021

Savills Research Global Living Report 2021 says operational residential investment held up strongly against other real estate asset classes through the Covid-19 pandemic. Marcus Roberts Head of Europe, Operational Capital Market and Paul Tostevin Director, World Research Savills Highlights the key points.

National

People

Byron agent takes out Australia’s Best Property Marketer award

The principal of Belle Property Byron Bay Lennox Head, Mr Walters took out the title of Property Marketer of the Year at the 2021 REIA National Awards for Excellence in Darwin last night (10 June).

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News Roundup

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wealth/is-mcgrath-a-real-estate-casualty-or-an-asx-accident/news-story/1c591cc0cf642a51bfae3958373035aa

Is McGrath a real estate casualty or an ASX accident?

Is the remarkable decline of John McGrath’s property empire about the sharemarket or the real estate market?

The Australian Financial Review

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/property/nrma-expands-its-caravan-park-portfolio/news-story/d0e29ae2655183228e4b1a80c51184b0

NRMA expands its caravan park portfolio

NRMA has further bulked up its $500m-plus portfolio by snapping up caravan parks and tent sites on the central Queensland coast and the NSW central west.

The Australian

http://www.afr.com/real-estate/commercial/development/thirty-per-cent-discounts-development-site-values-set-to-tumble-20171107-gzgbyj

Thirty per cent discounts: Development site values set to tumble

Metropolitan development sites values, which have surged in recent years on a wave of Chinese money, are showing the first signs of correcting. Developer Nicholas Smedley secured two sites at discounts of 30% after vendors rejected his original off-market offers.

The Australian Financial Review

http://thenewdaily.com.au/money/property/2017/11/08/banks-property-boom-mortgage-lending/

How the property boom has pulled the banks into housing market risk

The increasing dependence of Australian banks on the property boom could be putting both the banking system and the wider economy at risk.

The New Daily

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/property/rate-rise-biggest-risk-to-housing-markets/news-story/6cb4b1315534536aa3694379becfa305

Rate rise ‘biggest risk’ to housing markets’

A spike in interest rates is the biggest risk to housing markets, say Brian White of the Ray White Group and Century 21 chairman Charles Tarbey.

The Australian

http://www.afr.com/real-estate/commercial/development/singaporean-rivals-bury-dispute-in-1-billion-melbourne-apartment-projects-20171106-gzg7x1

Singaporean rivals bury dispute in $1bn Melbourne apartment projects

Rival Singaporean property powerhouses have buried a long-running legal dispute over neighbouring projects in Melbourne, agreeing to put both properties on the market as a combined development opportunity.

The Australian Financial Review

http://www.afr.com/personal-finance/pros-and-cons-of-new-surveillance-technology-20171107-gzglif

The latest property surveillance technology has pros and cons

Electronic surveillance and security is a hot topic in strata, partly because the steps we take to make ourselves more secure may mean we are more likely to be living cheek-by-jowl with the naughty and nefarious.

The Australian Financial Review

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/13/where-the-small-town-american-dream-lives-on?mbid=nl_Weekly%20110617&CNDID=22176954&spMailingID=12299815&spUserID=MTMzMTc5ODE5ODU5S0&spJobID=1280558355&spReportId=MTI4MDU1ODM1NQS2

Where the small-town American dream lives on

As America’s rural communities stagnate, what can we learn from one that hasn’t?

The New Yorker