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This is the first part in our series of documenting the journey of our female investor clients. As most women would agree, ...
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More than 150,000 dwellings are forecast to be built across Sydney in the next four years but more than a quarter of the city's suburbs will be untouched by the development. NSW Department of Planning forecasters estimate between 132,800 and 171,200 new homes will be built in Sydney by...
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Large international aircraft such as Boeing 777s and Airbus 330s will be able to land in Newcastle under a plan to upgrade the regional NSW city's airport runway and other facilities. Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the $66 million investment, to be announced in next week's federal ...
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Buying a house in Sydney and Melbourne is now tens of thousands of dollars more expensive than it was just a month ago but there are signs the strongest property boom in decades is slowing. Property prices increased 1.8 per cent nationally in April with every capital city and region re...
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The backyard of this Riverview house was so overgrown the selling agency discovered a pool they hadn't known was there. Sydney bidders paid up to $6 million under the hammer this weekend for houses they didn't even want. Rundown properties with scope for development got some of...
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Koala Invest has assisted another client in achieving the milestone of acquiring an investment property. Our client wanted to buy a high cash flow and positive geared property : total budget was under $675k. They wanted a property with high rental yield and less vacancy rate. B...
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Apartments are in oversupply in suburbs where house prices are booming Rental vacancy rates are also higher than average in suburbs near universities Belle Property Ryde principal Phillip Allison conceded unit oversupply issue Moody's Investors Service issue...
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Ian Kingsford-Smith and Berni Joseph in front of their new apartment, near Parramatta in western Sydney. Despite house prices rising at their fastest pace in 32 years, apartments in Australia's most oversupplied cities aren't getting as much love from buyers. In some areas, uni...
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There has been a shift in housing preferences in Australia post-COVID-19. Miraculous. That's how Commonwealth Bank's boss described Australia's economic recovery last week. But it was a strange word to choose. "Miraculous" can suggest a miracle has occurred, which impli...
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Koala Invest has assisted another client in achieving the milestone of acquiring an investment property. Our client wanted to buy a high cash flow and positive geared property : total budget was under $650k. They wanted a property with high rental yield and less vacancy rate. B...
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Maryam Behrouz stands to lose her life savings. A Sydney woman has been told there is nothing the NSW Building Commissioner can do to help recover her life savings after she bought into a 300-apartment tower that had alleged major defects, despite him reportedly saying an investigation...
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Australia's building sector is bearing the brunt of a "perfect storm" of events, with near-record new home approvals putting intense pressure on supply chains and sparking construction delays. December 2020 has seen 13,527 new homes approved, the Housing Industry Australia (HIA) said, ...
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Phil and Vanessa Machin, with daughter Chloe, bought in the red hot northern beaches market. Sydney's explosion in house prices is on track to become our biggest ever property boom, with prices set to continue rising in every city region this year. New sales analysis showed the...
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More Happy Clients have found their perfect investment with Koala Invest's assistance Koala Invest has helped another of its client in finding the perfect Investment home . Our client was searching for a ...
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" Koala Invest" once again put forth an exclusive option considering the prerequisite of the Client offering a dual occupancy under $500k with a block size of at least 500 m2 , providing a high rental yield of 4.9%.The client bought the full turn key fixed price package within their budget.</p...
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Recent buyer Melissa Steckler said price guides were "laughable" as she quickly realised she was regularly underquoted. Desperate Sydney buyers are facing the near-impossible task of finding homes they can afford as increasingly inaccurate price guides are throwing many off course in t...
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More Happy Clients have found their perfect investment with Koala Invest's assistance. Koala Invest has helped another of its client in finding the perfect Investmen...
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Home sales are expected to spike in the next two weeks as first home buyers seek to get their purchases over the line before the HomeBuilder scheme ends. font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-s...
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Koala Invest has assisted another client in achieving the milestone of acquiring an investment property. Our client wanted to buy a high cash flow and positive geared property : total budget was under $650k. They wanted a property with high rental yield and less vacancy rate. B...
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Australian house prices rose at their fastest rate in nearly two decades in February, with 2.1 per cent growth for the month the biggest monthly change since August 2003. font-family: arial, ...
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Koala Invest has helped another client in achieving the milestone of acquiring their first investment property. Our client wanted to buy a high cash flow and positive geared property: total budget was between $600-$650k. They wanted a property which is close to all amenities with high ...
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Metricon Queensland general manager Luke Fryer, with developer Keith Johnson (right), says they are committed to fixed-price contracts and they absorb the price rises. Budding property owners are being urged to lock in the price of new builds with costs set to rise dramatically because...
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Koala Invest has assisted another client in achieving the milestone of acquiring an investment property. Our client wanted to buy a high cash flow and positive geared property : total budget was under $650k. They wanted a property with high rental yield and less vacancy rate. B...
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Auctioneer Stu Benson from Benson Auctions at the successful sale of 102 Eaton Road. A tightly-held home in the Hills District sold for almost $450,000 above reserve on Saturday in a hot auction that drew more than 30 bidders. The four-bedroom West Pennant Hills home, on the ma...
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Commonwealth Bank economists expect national dwelling prices to increase 8 per cent in 2021. Economists at Australia's biggest bank think the housing market is "on the cusp of a boom", as record low mortgage rates collide with the recovery in the jobs market. Key Points : ...
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CoreLogic says housing stock on the market for sale is extremely low, while buyer activity is high. Australian house prices have posted their sharpest monthly increase since August 2003, with analysts at CoreLogic saying the market is now entrenched in one of its strongest growth phase...
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Historically, investor demand for housing has been very much focused on inner-city areas of major capital cities and popular holiday destinations, such as Queensland’s Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. But the repercussions of COVID-19 and closed international borders have forced so...
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An influx of former Sydney residents combined with a lack of housing stock is propelling regional New South Wales property prices to record highs, while pushing locals out of the market. Key points: Regional NSW property prices rose by almost 10 per cent last year Resea...
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House prices are back around the record levels set in 2017, but apartments are not performing as well. A 0.9 per cent rise in house prices last month has taken Australian housing values to a record high. exceeding the peak reached in 2017. Key points: Home prices are 0....
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The coronavirus pandemic has brought about many unexpected changes to the property market, including soaring demand for regional properties and larger homes. But perhaps even more unforeseen is a strong trend towards 'off-grid' living. New figures have revealed a significant incr...
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LOTS FOR LOCHINVAR: Maitland City Council's Development and Environment Manager David Simm pictured last year at Gillieston Heights. Lochinvar is set to become Maitland's next boom town with the first of 5000 housing lots on public exhibition and a school and shopping precinct to come....
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Koala Invest has assisted another client in achieving the milestone of acquiring an investment property. Our client wanted to buy a high cash flow and positive geared property : total budget was under $650k. They wanted a property with high rental yield and less vacancy rate. B...
Read MoreAfter the domination of first home buyers in the 2020 property market, investors are expected to make their market comeback this year. Following the introduction of the federal government's First Home Loan Deposit Scheme, the pandemic further accelerated first home buyer activity acros...
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Australian house prices are expected to skyrocket by 16 per cent over the next two years, rising by as much as $160,000 in some capital cities. Commonwealth Bank's head of economics Gareth Aird predicted house prices will rise by 9 per cent in 2021 and 7 per cent in 2022 in an economic...
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Perth's rental market is becoming increasingly expensive as low vacancy rates bite. Australia's rental markets are becoming increasingly expensive again, as vacancy rates fall across the country. Perth tenants are now paying 12% more than they were 12 months ago, while Darwin h...
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More Happy Clients have found their perfect investment with Koala Invest's assistance Koala Invest has helped another of its client in finding the perfect Investment home . Our client was searching for a ...
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The NSW government has announced that the defence and aerospace hub supporting RAAF Base Williamtown will be designated as a 'Special Activation Precinct', drawing support from industry, accelerating economic development and the creation of highly skilled jobs. The Hunter region and no...
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In the year to January, CoreLogic estimates that there were 459,308 properties transacted across Australia. Most of these sales were houses, rather than units. It is not unusual for house sales to make up the majority of transactions, with houses making up an average 70.2% of annual sa...
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Koala Invest has helped another client in achieving the milestone of acquiring their investment property. Our client wanted to buy a high cash flow and positive geared property: total budget was between $650-$700k. They wanted a property with high rental yield and less vacancy rate.</p...
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Scott Morrison bounded into the air force base as the Top Gun theme song blared over the speakers. Little did the prime minister know his photo opportunity was on course to become a highway to the Danger Zone. Mr Morrison channelled his inner Maverick as he climbed into the coc...
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Koala Invest has assisted another client in achieving the milestone of acquiring an investment property. Our client wanted to buy a high cash flow and positive geared property : total budget was under $650k. They wanted a property with high rental yield and less vacancy rate. B...
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The HomeBuilder grant scheme is twice as popular as anticipated and is set to cost the government an expected $2 billion. The original estimate for the scheme was $680 million for 27,000 grants when the prime minister first announced the initiative in June. The latest figures r...
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Australian house prices hit record highs along the east coast, marking the steepest increase in four years and rounding out a year of unprecedented events and price predictions. The median house value now sits at $852,940, up 4. 1 per cent over the quarter and 5.8 per cent in the year ...
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Stockland has lodged plans for a $500 million North Sydney office tower as it banks on a post-pandemic return of workers to Sydney's second CBD. Known as 110 Walker Street, the development application consists of 75,000sq m of net lettable area on a 2,300sq m site which was previously ...
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The Queensland government has launched a parcel of development-ready land within the 200-hectare Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct at Southport. Development of the 9.5 hectares, marketed as "Lumina", will be a commercial cluster based within the Gold Coast Health and Knowledge P...
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Demand for mortgages is starting to rise reveals the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures. Up to $26.5 billion worth of housing finance commitments were made in July this year, marking the second consecutive month of increases. ABS chief economist Bruce Hockman said g...
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Glad Tidings of a brand new home in the same vicinity from a satisfied Client of "KOALA INVEST" through the "Knock down Rebuild Process". The budget of $610K for a new spacious and Contemporary home of 176 Sqm. was perfectly matched by providing appropriate drawings, materials and serv...
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Koala Invest has assisted another client in achieving the milestone of acquiring their first "Dual Occupancy" investment property. During the initial discussion,We explained the client about dual occupancy property as investment and was happy to acquire a property from us. Base...
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Koala Invest has helped another client in achieving the milestone of acquiring an investment property. Our client wanted to buy a high cash flow and positive geared property : total budget was under $650k. They wanted a property which is close to all amenities with high rental yield an...
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The pandemic that made city-dwellers flee urban environments for the relative safety and space of country living turned housing markets on their head, making regional prices grow faster than metropolitan values for the first time in near...
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Hundreds of Sydney apartment owners are facing an uncertain future after the collapse of a company linked to the builder of the Opal Tower, with allegations that it collectively owes them $30 million to repair seven defective builds across the city. The revelations come as another high...
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House prices in regional Australia have risen at a higher annual rate than in capital cities for the first time in more than 15 years, as COVID-19 increases people's desire to live outside the big smoke. Annual data by real estate analysts CoreLogic shows dwelling values in capital cit...
Read MoreAfter a crazy year, record-low borrowing costs and government efforts to stimulate the economy have set Australian housing prices up for further growth in 2021 - after every city bar Melbourne closed the year in positive territory, having already made up their losses triggered by the pandemic....
Read MoreREA Group Chief Economist Nerida Conisbee says Australia's property market has been "far stronger than expected," this year considering the COVID-19 pandemic. "When the first lockdown hit in March, I certainly don't think anyone though that there would be pretty much no price decline i...
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Koala Invest has assisted another client in achieving the milestone of acquiring an investment property. During the initial discussion , Koala team explained the benefits of positive geared and high cash flow investment properties to the client.And they understood that this kind of pro...
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A shortage of rental accommodation, multiple applications per property and rising rents are proof that Australia's rental market is undersupplied, with predictions the country could soon see the "biggest rent increases in living memory". Propertyology head of research Simon Pressley sa...
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At the height of the pandemic, major banking economists sounded the alarm. They warned the coronavirus-induced recession could shave hundreds of thousands of dollars off the value of Sydney and Melbourne homes. But as the worst of the national COVID-19 restrictions passed, property pri...
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As the famed coastal hotspot is overrun with new interest--and sky-high prices--wealthy buyers are looking elsewhere BY MICHELLE SINGER As Australia's wealthy descend upon the coastal lifestyle hotspot of Byron Bay, helping house prices rise to record levels, the hunt is on to ...
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With first-home buyers and upgraders dominating the market, the quiet pick up in investor activity is going largely unnoticed. The most recent home lending data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) found that in September 2020 there was $5.3 billion in new lending to investor...
Read MoreA further 15,000 homes are expected to be constructed or majorly rebuilt after the federal government revealed a three-month extension to its HomeBuilder scheme. HomeBuilder was initially brought in as a COVID-19 stimulus measure to drive demand in the construction sector and support j...
Read MoreAustralia headed to its first recession in over 28 years, but no drastic decline was seen in the housing market. Here's how the property market managed to handle the downturn. 2020 has seen devastation across a number of sectors, with wages down by 4.3 per cent and payroll jobs decreas...
Read MoreCanberra is now Australia's second most expensive property market, overtaking Melbourne. New data from property research firm CoreLogic shows Canberra now carries a median value of $672,866, overtaking Melbourne which sits at a close $672,172. Sydney remains the most expensive ...
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Koala Invest has assisted another client in achieving the milestone of acquiring an investment property. During the initial discussion , Koala team explained the benefits of positive geared and high cash flow investment properties to the client.And they understood that this kind of pro...
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Property price caps have been lifted and the amount of time given to start construction extended. A Federal Government program offering cash grants for housing construction projects has been extended, but at a lower amount. The HomeBuilder scheme currently provides $25,000 gran...
Read MoreHouses are rising in price again in most capital cities and although the rental market remains weak there are some surprising increases in value. REA Group Chief Economist Nerida Conisbee told Sky News 80 per cent of suburbs across Australia have seen prices soar. "Sydney is st...
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Treasurer Dominic Perrottet will undertake the state’s biggest tax reform in decades with stamp duty to be phased out to boost the economy as NSW records a historic $16 billion budget deficit. In his fourth budget, handed down on Tuesday, Mr Perrottet said replacing stamp duty wi...
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Koala Invest has helped another client in achieving the milestone of acquiring their first investment property. Our client wanted to buy a high cash flow and positive geared property: total budget was between $600-$650k. They wanted a property which is close to all amenities with high ...
Read MoreHousing sentiment has almost rebounded to pre-COVID-19 levels, with home owners less worried about the state of the property market, says the ME Quarterly Property Sentiment Report. font-family: arial, helveti...
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The Reserve Bank's cash rate cut to 0.1 per cent will have ripple effects for Australia's property prices, as well as mortgages and personal savings, all which move according to the national interest rate. Historically, when interest rates have been slashed, house prices tend to push u...
Read MoreAfter the property market has witnessed a lull in activity as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, South Australia is expected to experience a “mini property boom”, aided by the federal and state government support for new homes. The government’s support for new homes c...
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The Lower Hunter's population is forecast to boom in the next two decades with Cessnock and Maitland tipped to be among the fastest growing areas in the state. Department of Planning population projections show an extra 131,500 people will live in the Hunter Region by 2041, an average ...
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Many of Australia's regional towns have proven resilient to the pandemic with house prices rising despite the disruption, even as the country's two largest housing markets of Sydney and Melbourne suffered. fon...
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East Maitland will be one of the Hunter's "catalyst areas" in the next 20 years, setting targets for 1750 extra jobs, 550 extra homes and improved transport connections between Green Hills shopping centre and new hospital site. The plan is one of a raft of initiatives contained in docu...
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"The full impact of HomeBuilder is now evident in the HIA's New Home Sales Report with sales now 11.8 per cent higher in the seven months since restrictions came into effect than at the same time last year," commented HIA Chief Economist, Tim Reardon. The HIA New Home Sales report - a ...
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Costco is to develop a $60 million warehouse and fuel station project in Lake Macquarie City in New South Wales' Hunter Valley region. Occupying a 14,000sqm site, part of the former Pasminco mining company's land, the development will be Costco's fourth warehouse in the state. The proj...
Read MoreThe concept design for the new, seven-storey Acute Services Building for John Hunter and John Hunter's children's hospitals has been unveiled, marking a milestone for the NSW Governments $780 million health precinct. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the John Hunter Health and Innovation...
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Koala invest has assisted two young investors with their First investment property. The clients, who are friends, were looking at various options to invest jointly. We understood their requirements and suggested to invest in an off the plan dual occupancy property by explaining them th...
Read MoreProperties suffered sunken driveways, cracked brickwork and damaged roads The council have extended the number of homes with warnings from 195 to 841 Building group Lendlease is 'disappointed' by the council's 'premature response' Sinking ground reclaimed from a swamp i...
Read MoreThe New South Wales Hunter region has been named as the preferred location for what is likely to be Australia's first gigawatt-scale lithium-ion battery manufacturing operation, right in the middle of the state's coal and gas heartland. Energy Renaissance said on Tuesday that it would ...
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Cancer patients in Maitland will soon no-longer have to make the exhausting trip to Newcastle for treatment. Construction on a new $6 million cancer centre, which wi...
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Developed by Risland Australia, the sales occurred within three weeks of the project's launch, making it one of the fastest selling in New South Wales. Located within Sydney's south west growth corridor in the Wollondilly area, the Wilton Greens will comprise 3,600 land parcels spannin...
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AFTER years of talk, the Federal Government will finally commit $560 million towards the development of the Singleton Bypass at Tuesday's budget. Given the project's estimated cost of around $700 million, only another $45m would be required by the state government, who have already spe...
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The Federal Government will add an additional 10,000 places to a scheme designed to make it easier for first home buyers to purchase a house with a small deposit. The First Home Loan Deposit scheme allows people to purchase property with a deposit of five per cent, with the Government ...
Read MoreReal estate markets across the country, with the exception of Melbourne, are returning to the normal pattern of spring selling seasons, as new home listings increase and older homes are snapped up by buyers returning to the market.</span...
Read MoreOverview 3 October 2020: The Australian Government has announced an additional 10,000 First Home Loan Deposit Scheme places will be provided from 6 October 2020 to support the purchase of a new home or a newly built home. More information will be available on the NHFIC website from Tue...
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Koala Invest has helped another client in achieving the mile stone of acquiring their first family home. Our client wanted to buy their first home and had certain requirements: total budget of under $700,000.They wanted property which is close to school, shopping, public transport as w...
Read MoreThe NSW Government can today reveal it has allocated another $400m of its $3 billion Jobs and Infrastructure Acceleration Fund to regional projects. Last week, the government announced $2.4 billion in funding, which included $1.4 billion in accelerated funding for regional projects. Th...
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A billionaire family's windfall gain from the sale of land next to Western Sydney Airport has been described as the "tip of the iceberg" for the surrounding area, sparking calls for changes to ensure a far greater slice ...
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The Reserve Bank says with interest rates to remain lower for longer, all levels of government can borrow for job-creating projects. f...
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28-year-old real estate “whizzkid” Eddie Dilleen who has been buying up a storm across Brisbane when the rest of the country was in COVID-19 lockdown. Pictured at one of his prope...
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Westpac has updated its property forecasts, expecting a serious boom in the coming years. <span style...
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A leading Illawarra community housing provider's latest project represents one of the largest purchases made in the organisation's 37-year history. ...
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Westpac is the latest bank to upgrade its short-term home price targets, citing record low interest rates, ongoing regulator support and a steadying economy for its more positive outlook. The bank says residential property prices are now expected to experience a 5 per cent correction t...
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The shift in interest to the regions is one of the more fascinating (and positive) trends to come out of COVID-19 – and the high level of interest in regional Australia is now f...
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The New South Wales Central Coast is expected to boom this summer, with holidaymakers opting for a beachside getaway amid ongoing pandemic travel restrictions. But the future is not so bright for a well-established café in the coastal village of Avoca Beach, which has been force...
Read MoreRevealed by latest ATO investment property statistics Depreciation remains the second highest deduction for property investors after interest repayments, according to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). ATO investment property statistics recently released from financial year ...
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Doylo Lifestyle Group has passed its first hurdle for a major housing and recreation redevelopment to be staged over 20 years on 45ha at Doyalson. At its April 27 meeting, Central Coast Council voted unanimously to rezone land for low density housing and to forward a proposal to the NS...
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Looking at the Local Government Areas that are seeing the strongest growth over the past three months, it is overwhelmingly dominated by regional areas. Most of these are l...
Read MoreNew loans for residential investments rebounded 15.2 per cent in the three months to June over the previous quarter as investors refinanced to new lenders, taking advantage of record low interest rates. During the past 12 months to June, new mortgages taken out for investment purposes ...
Read MoreResidential vacancies in outer suburbs and regional areas fell sharply in July, while CBD apartments sat empty as professionals who could work remotely abandoned their city flats in favour of...
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A new housing code, which allows dual occupancies, terraces and manor houses to be fast-tracked as complying development, now applies in all council areas....
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The Australian property market has taken a battering amid the COVID-19 pandemic with prices falling or stagnant in most cities, but white-collar workers, doctors and busy tradespeople have st...
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Construction of a passenger terminal at Sydney's new $5.3 billion international airport is expected to start by the end of next year after several large contractors were shortlisted for the w...
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Sutherland Shire has gained a late, major concession in the application of a new state-wide housing code. Planning Minister Rob Sto...
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COVID-19 has accelerated a trend of Sydneysiders moving to regional NSW and the exodus from the big smoke is expected to drive up property values in key towns once the pandemic blows over.</s...
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For Kiia Liind and Michael Canty, COVID-19 was the push they needed to get out of the city for good. <span style...
Read MoreCharter Hall is laying the foundations for an emerging health and medical research hub in Sydney's south-west as it kicks off the first stage of a joint $350 million project with Western Sydn...
Read MoreThe housing pipeline picked up in July as new home approvals jumped more than expected. There was a surge in detached dwellings and apartments as improving consumer sentiment made the monthly...
Read MoreHouseholds are using the pandemic year to build their nest eggs and gird against recession, with savings and investments trending higher since the start of 2020. te...
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Australia’s property market is on the slide as the coronavirus weighs on buyers’ confidence, but one market has defied expectations and emerged as the “clear winner” a...
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Koala Invest has helped another client in acquiring the perfect investment property. Our client wanted to buy a property with high rental income and rental yield and had ...
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Important koala habitat will be protected for future generations with the creation of Guula Ngurra National Park. Premier Gladys Be...
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Lake Macquarie Council has approved Winarch Capital's $235 million redevelopment of the 90 hectare Morisset Golf Course, allowing the developer to subdivide and sell part of the site to Ingenia Communities. ...
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We believe that good work should always be celebrated. Our team has been working hard to ensure that both our homeowner and investor clients get the best value for their money and their efforts have borne fruit. ...
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A combination of federal and state housing stimulus drove a huge rise in new home sales in Perth in June and July, according to figures provided by developer Satterley Property Group. font-fa...
Read MoreAn eight-year-old boy has bought his first home after outbidding other shoppers at a Sydney auction. M...
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Proposed changes at Chain Valley Colliery, Mannering Colliery and Vales Point Power Station have been fast tracked by the NSW Government to inject $65M into the economy and boost employment by 170 jobs. <s...
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Master Builders Australia wants the federal government to extend the HomeBuilders stimulus program for a year, at an estimated cost of $1.3 billion. tex...
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Queensland’s border may be closed to NSW, Victoria and ACT but that’s proving no obstacle for property hunters from the southern states, with reports of a surge in buyers snapping up homes sight unseen.</span...
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Plans are picking up steam to connect the Gold Coast light rail to the airport and create ...
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A rooftop cocktail bar, a gold class cinema and a high-end steakhouse are just some of the features listed in plans for the regio...
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Connectivity is key to transforming the Ripley region over the next decade, with Ripley ...
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Bucking the nationwide trend of falling capital city house prices, Canber...
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Residential vacancies in outer suburbs and regiona...
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Two generations of a Caringbah South family joined forces to beat stiff competition at auction for their neighbour’s house with water views. The family paid $1.897m for the r...
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The Sydney residential market looks set to kick off spring with a bumper number of offerings. Over the past month 6000 new listings have hit the Sydney market, which is up 27 per cent on the same period last year. These early bird offerings have taken the total Sydney listings to aroun...
Read MorePeople in Sydney pay 68 per cent more for apartments than they cost to build, a gap the Reserve Bank says indicates a shortage of properties. RBA staffers Keaton Jenner and Peter Tulip said planning restrictions have created the shortage which is most acute in the eastern suburbs, Leic...
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If first-time home buyers manage to navigate their way through all the options, conditions and qualifications for assistance with buying their first home, then they’ve earnt every cent. In some states you have to buy a brand-new home, in others it can be newly renovated or less t...
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Over the next two decades, Canberra will need to build 100,000 new homes — approximately 12 per day — to accommodate the city's booming population. The ACT is expected to welcome an additional 170,000 people in just over 20 years. But where and how those people are housed w...
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Regional property markets have significantly outperformed city markets on average over the past year and new research indicates median prices in regional areas across the country were up by an average of 3.4 per cent fo...
Read MoreIncreasing real interest rates and Victoria's stage-four lockdown will force the Reserve Bank to re-examine policy settings and its forecasts for the national economy amid growing evidence the jobs market has deteriorated in the past fortnight. The RBA board is expected to hold officia...
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These Ermington duplexes have been snapped up by out-of-area buyers. HOUSE hunters are flocking to a western Sydney suburb to choose from its selection of modern duplexes — many of which are the size of a typical stand-alone home. Two young families will so...
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Read MoreThe Berejiklian government will cut land tax for the next 20 years for new build-to-rent housing projects in an Australian-first designed to give renters longer-term leases. NSW will give a 50 per cent discount on land tax to developers who invest in build-to-rent schemes, which are de...
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While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt property markets across the country, none more so than in Victoria, industry experts are reporting a wave of activity from first-home buyers spurred on by increased government support. “First-home buyers are out in force,” sa...
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Read MoreFirst home buyers and the construction industry will be the big winners under a targeted boost, which will eliminate stamp duty on newly-built homes below $800,000 and slash thousands of dollars for prop...
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Read MoreEliza Owen, Head of Research Australia at CoreLogic, has penned research arguing that Australia’s regional property markets could stand to benefit from COVID-19 as working...
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Changes in high-density cities as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could prompt a shift in housing demand towards smaller towns and sub...
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The Western Sydney Aerotropolis, a multi-billion-dollar development to complement the upcomin...
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Westpac-owned St George Bank has slashed its lenders mortgage insurance (LMI...
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One in 10 off-the-plan apartment buyers have lost their deposits in the la...
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First-home buyers are "vacuuming up" available titled land, even blocks that have been sitting on the market for more than two years, in a rush to get the HomeBuilder gra...
Read MoreRegional Australia attracted more people than it lost to capital cities during the last census, reveals a new report, which also found Sydney lost more millennials to the regions than it gained between 2011 and 2016. Regional Australia Institute’s “Big Movers” report ...
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A $1.2 billion over-station development at the future Victoria Cross metro station in North Sydney has topped the latest list of projects to be fast-tr...
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Millennials are leading Australia’s house hunting charge as real estate agents across the capitals report a surge in first-home buyers looking to make lemonade from COVID-19 lemons. While investors steer clear of the market and mature property owners resist the...
Read MoreAtlassian plans to build the world's tallest hybrid timber tower for its new headquarters next to Central Station, reshaping the skyline at the southern end of Sydney's CBD. The 40-storey building will become the centrepiece of the state government-planned tech hub, which will eventual...
Read MoreAny discussions about the Australian property market lately have been pulled in different directions by opposing opinions and forecasts. Key Takeaways: The Australian housing market has remained resilient to material correction Serious buyer ac...
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Australia's property sector has dipped slightly during the corona virus crisis but first-home buyers are still likely to struggle to crack the market. As the coronavirus pandemic brings huge chunks of the Australian economy to a grinding halt, the real estate market looks to have weath...
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Real estate agents in outer suburbs have been flooded with calls about the Morrison government's HomeBuilder grant for new homes and renovations, but major industry groups warn many people will fail to qualify unless the scheme is expan...
Read MoreThe chance to build a brand-new home for a bargain has lured thousands of Aussie buyers into the market as developers across the nation report skyrocketing sales and inquiries mere days after the launch of the federal government’s new HomeBuilder scheme. Despit...
Read MoreConstruction on Queensland's biggest infrastructure project, the $5.4 billion Cross River Rail is quickly taking shape. When realised, the Queensland government-led project will comprise a 10.2 kilometre rail line which will run from Dutton Park in Brisbane's southern suburbs to Bowen ...
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Families with a combined taxable income of less than $200,000 are the big winners under Scott Morrison’s new homebuyers’ scheme which will ban millionaires from claiming the “free” cash. News.com.au has confirmed ...
Read MoreConstruction will begin this year on a metro line linking the new Western Sydney airport and St Marys railway station, after a $5.25 billion injection from the Federal Government announced today. Two new metro stations will also be ...
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Read MoreAt a time when Australia is looking to construction as a way to help the economy rebound as quickly as possible, build-to-rent is becoming an increasingly strong option. Build-to-rent developments, designed for renting professionally managed apartments on a long-term basis, are now ser...
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Buyers of newly constructed homes – whether homeowners or first home buyers – will be offered grants of at least $20,000 to help shield the building industry from the coronavirus-induced economic slowdown. The federal government is poised to announce the scheme this week, s...
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Developer JMGM has won approval for a mixed-use residential building in Gosford on the New South Wales’ Central Coast. The developer&rsqu...
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Up to 3300 new homes will be built in Sydney’s north west after the New South Wales government green-lit concept plans for Ivanhoe Estate in Macquarie Park as one it "shovel ready" projects. Frasers Property Australia and community housing provider Mission Australia Housing are b...
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Master developer and home builder Sekisui House Australia is challenging traditional conventions of masterplanned communities following the successful launch of the $1.5 billion Ripley Town Centre in June last year. Almost one year on, Sekisui House Australia continues to mak...
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Buyers of freshly built homes would get a $50,000 cheque from the Morrison government under a $2.5 billion plan from the Property Council to kickstart the economy amid Reserve Bank warnings the housing sector faces an extended period of pain. The council also wants the abolition of sta...
Read MoreListings are set to rise significantly over coming weeks as more vendors make plans to put their homes on sale, in an early sign of recovering housing confidence. CoreLogic's data showed pre-listing activity – measured by the amount of comparable market analysis (CMA) report...
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A former music teacher who started a $12 million real estate empire while working as a low-paid freelancer claims home seekers could be missing a rare opportunity during the COVID-19 crisis. Sydneysider Lloyd Edge, 45, currently owns 16 properties, bought using a mix of cunning tactics...
Read MoreNew government stimulus measures to kick-start building activity have been called for, as the construction sector continues to navigate complexities amid the coronavirus pandemic. While projects that commenced prior to the onset of Covid-19 are providing short term work, Mast...
Read MoreBrisbane is officially under construction. Everywhere you look, there is a major construction site underway. A city of 2.5 million, a region of 3.6 million, the city is undergoing monumental change, with 2020 welcoming the start of many new major projects about to come online. The vide...
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Houses have become more popular with Australian property investors than units, new research shows, a trend that could become more prominent post-COVID-19. New properties have also become the investment of choice, the 1000 Assets Study by MCG Quantity Surveyors shows. The study assessed...
Read MoreThe economic news is grim with warnings of 10 per cent unemployment in the June quarter, weak economic growth and a fall in property prices as Australia navigates its way through the coronavirus pandemic. Major banks are expecting billions of dollars in d...
Read MoreUnemployment is expected to rise to its highest rate in almost thirty years, with new figures forecasting the rate to increase from 5.1 per cent to 10 ...
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The NSW government has unveiled the first tranche of "shovel-ready" projects it says will kick start the state's lethargic construction pipeline in the wake of Covid-19. The 24 projects include Malcolm Turnbull’s pet project Snowy Hydro 2.0—a $4.6 billion injection—al...
Read MoreThe new school, initially for 460 students, will be built at 75 Warnervale Rd and will supplement the existing primary school on the corner of Minnesota Rd at 179 Warnervale Rd. The school population will increase in stages to a total 1,000. There will be community consultation before ...
Read MoreWe are building a new school in Schofields to support the growing community. The new school will accommodate 500 students and allow growth in the future for 1,000 students. The benefits Flexible tea...
Read MoreThe State Government has announced $440 million in relief for renters and landlords affected by Government-enforced COVID-19 restrictions. Half of that money has been allocated to residential renters — a group that had not yet received financia...
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Developer contributions and levies will be the subject of a sweeping review as the Berejiklian government steps up attempts to boost Sydney's housing supply and local infrastructure in the face of a severe hit to the state's economy from the coronavirus pandemic. The government has app...
Read MoreBuyers of off-the-plan apartments are beginning to bear the brunt of the COVID-19-led economic downturn with some struggling to settle on properties bought at the height of the market. According to a range of industry sources, some are now scrambling to secure financ...
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Property price growth is expected to skyrocket following the coronavirus crisis, if past economic recoveries are anything to go by. Experts are forecasting house values to shoot up at the end of the pandemic, which is consistent with what tends to happen after economic shocks. <di...
Read MoreAny Australian who is granted a six month deferral on loan repayments on their mortgage or other credit products, such as a credit card, will not have their credit rating affected as a result of that deferral, provided they were up to date with repayments prior to COVID-19. </p...
Read MoreHomeowners were reselling their properties for more than $600,000 above the prices they paid for them in pockets of Sydney before coronavirus hit. An analysis of sales recorded over the December quarter showed about 92 per cent of Sydney vendors made a profit on their resales, but the ...
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Isolation has put property at the front of people’s minds with developers reporting a rising rate of new home inquiries. Home buyers are making virtual inspections of new homes and visiting property websites in increased numbers, despite the limitations imposed...
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Few of us will be buying or selling property in coming weeks, given the practical challenges and the need for caution. ...
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There will be no further delays to the introduction of a code that will make it easier for landowners and developers to build terraces and other medium-density homes, NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes says. Despite the medium-density housing code coming into force ...
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Amid the spread of coronavirus, the past few weeks have seen increased expectations of an Australian recession, a slowdown in business activity and trillions of dollars wiped off global share markets. It has many asking what the impact of the coronavirus would be on Australian residential prop...
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with global stock markets swinging wildly from one extreme to the other as the coronavirus Covid-19 continues to spread, investors are feeling cold feet. canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--...
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Our nation’s capital might have a reputation for its umpteen roundabouts and bland politicians, but Canberra is shaping up to be a rare real estate beast that is proving profitable both in the long and short term. “It can be very attractive for investors who are looking at ...
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Kembla Grange will be split in half and renamed under a new Wollongong City Council proposal to create six new suburbs in West Dapto. Huntley and Avondale will also need to be ...
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Oscar Ledlin went from washing dishes in a Thai restaurant at the age of 14, to pushing barrows of concrete at 18, to building a multimillion-dollar commercial construction company by 21. “I wanted to have a $50 million development portfolio before retirement,&rd...
Read MoreThe Reserve Bank of Australia has cut official interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point to a fresh record low of 0.5 per cent as it attempts to protect the Australian economy from the financial fallout of the coronavirus outbreak. Westpac was the first of the major banks to re...
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Sydney is set for a fresh property boom, with both house and apartment prices predicted to skyrocket, passing the 2017 peak and chalking up record prices by the e...
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It’s been a decade in the planning, but so far the West Dapto field which was to become “the biggest private hospital and health precinct in NSW” remains a dusty construction site. <div c...
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Koala Invest has helped another client in achieving the mile stone of acquiring their first family home. Our client wanted to buy a home for themselves and had certain requirements: total budget of under $750,000, minimum block size of 300 sq. meters with a minimum 12 m of frontage and...
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Koala Invest has helped another client in acquiring the perfect investment property. Our client wanted to buy a property with high rental income and rental yield and had certain other requirements: total investment of under $650,000 and minimum block size of 500 sq. meters. Based...
Read MoreProperty valuer Anna Porter has taken a contrarian view on Hobart, tipping the Tasmanian capital's housing bubble to burst in 2020. "Tasmania will be the market to really feel the pain for 2020," said Ms Porter in an ou...
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Sydney real estate may cost an arm and a leg now but it will be a steal compared to the prices future generations will pay. Economic modelling has revealed home buyers could be paying prices of up to $7.5 million, on average, in some city council areas by the end of 2030 – double...
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Sydney’s property bounce may have a whole lot more in it. The suggestion comes as the latest New South Wales building approval...
Read MoreSINGAPORE investors' love for Australian real estate was rekindled this year, with acquisitions up 20 per cent to US$3.4 billion driven by the transparent and deep market, good yields, freehold opportunities and cheap currency. "Australia has always been a treasure cove... <img...
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The year 2019 was "one of the stronger in recent times" for the Illawarra's commercial property market, an agent believes. Tim Jones, managing director of commercial sales at M...
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Two sparkly new office towers, a variety of restaurants and shops, a green open space, and enhanced riverbank facilities are on the cards for a $2.1 billion Brisbane waterfront master plan. Announced this morning by the Queensland Government the development will be helmed by property g...
Read MoreAfter staging stronger-than-expected price rises in the past three months, the rate of growth in Sydney and Melbourne markets eased as the year ended, with the amount of listings and the dint in affordability deterring price-sensitive buyers. In the lead up to CoreLogic's Home Value In...
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Illawarra agents have shared their tips for up-and-coming suburbs and growth areas in 2020. Neil Webster from Stone Real Estate - Illawarra told the Mercury ...
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Prospective buyers in the Illawarra should get their finances in order, be confident and take advantage of stamp duty exemptions in 2020, agents suggest. Daniel Hastings, direc...
Read MoreAlthough the South East Queensland property market will have improved capital growth in 2020, investors should steer well clear of new inner-Brisbane apartments, a leading research house says. Riskwise Property Research expects prices across Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Sunsh...
Read MoreThe buzz for first home buyers come January 1 is that thanks to the First Home Loan Deposit Scheme they might just get onto the property ladder sooner – and with a bite-sized deposit. But with the scheme limited to 10,000 in the first half of the year, combined w...
Read MoreAdozen cranes branch into the sky where tenants Bri Voto and Jason Martin look out from their front porch. Their yard spills onto an empty block that touches James Ruse Drive, near where the highway crosses the Parramatta River. A plank forms a makeshift bridge ov...
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Developer Mirvac and its joint-venture partner John Holland have won a tender to build the $800 million mixed-use Waterloo metro station in Sydney's inner south. Under the plan, the consortium will construct the station, three towers and two mid-rise buildings abo...
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A series of nine high-rise towers, ranging from eight to 26-storeys, has been approved as part of Malaysian conglomerate Mulpha’s $1 billion masterplanned residential proposal for The Greens in Sydney’s Norwest. The project will deliver a total of 864 residential apartments...
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Plans for up to 3,500 new homes in Sydney’s south-west are in place for surplus government land in Glenfield. Landcom, the New South Wales government property arm says it...
Read MoreLow stock levels are pushing up prices for middle- and upper-range houses across the eastern seaboard as competition mounts before the end of the year. In Sydney's leafy Mosman, an investor paid $15,000 over r...
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Canberra home prices are set to climb in 2020, even if economic conditions deteriorate nationally, according to a new report released today. In fact, under four scenarios explored by the Housing Boom and Bust Report for 2020, released by SQM Research, Canberra is the safest bet in...
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Sydney's premium market is poised to grow by 4 per cent in 2020, while Melbourne is set to rise by 3 per cent – trumping Vancouver, New York and Dubai – amid growing confidence bolstered by lower interest rates and limited supply pipeline, the Knight Frank Prime Global Forecast...
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A collection of 32 prominent business and sports personalities have urged premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to commit to south-east Queensland's bid for th...
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The housing market recovery in the country's two biggest cities are now having a knock-on effect in a number of regional locations around Sydney and Me...
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Australia’s housing market is now five months into its recovery, as Sydney and Melbourne drive the turnaround with values up by 2.7 and 2.2 per c...
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Townhouses and apartment blocks are no longer welcome in Brisbane’s character suburbs after the Brisbane City Council voted to protect single hou...
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The cranes rising in the air above Parramatta are set to give way to towers up to 67 storeys over the next decade as the skyline of Sydney's fast-growing second CBD continues to take shape. The City of Parramatta Council, which is overseeing an unprecedented wave of public and private ...
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They believe the Queensland capital will see eight per cent increases next year, above the six forecasted for the two major capital city markets. Westpac suggest the strong momentum in Sydney and Melbourne will fade as affordability issues re-emerge and population slows. Brisba...
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The hardest part of buying a property in Australia isn't necessarily affording the sky-high prices – it's mustering up enough cash to cover a 20 per cent deposit for a loan. The hardest part of buyi...
Read MoreRent prices nationally have been fairly steady across houses and units over the last quarter, but one market is seeing falls. Sydney...
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Read MoreConfidence in Canberra’s property market has grown by 21 index points to 144 over the past quarter, defying a national downward trend. Confidence in Canberra’s property mark...
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Read MoreThe Reserve Bank has driven its official cash rate below 1 per cent for the first time as it battles to head off rising unemployment and stimulate a stalling economy. The Reserve Bank has dr...
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Read MoreHouse values in Sydney and Melbourne jumped by 1.9 per cent in September as other capital city property markets struggled to gain traction on the back of the Reserve Bank's cuts in official interest rates. <...
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Read MoreReserve Bank governor Philip Lowe has signalled further cuts to interest rates as early as next week to keep ahead of tumbling global rates while urging the nation's businesses to use the abundance of cheap money to expand and hire more staff. post-cont...
Read MoreThe Commonwealth Bank, the nation’s biggest lender, slashed its fixed rates by up to 90 basis points across its mortgage range as the battle for market share among the major banks intensifies. The C...
Read MoreProperty developer Ralan Group's collapse has left thousands of investors facing financial ruin https://www.abc.net....
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Read MoreFrasers Property has purchased a 43-hectare land parcel from a private syndicate in Melbourne’s west for $27.5 million. Frasers Property has purchased a 43-...
Read MoreThe Queensland government has launched a parcel of development-ready land within the 200-hectare Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct at Southport. https://i.postimg.cc/5NrVs5zY/f58f62f8-e588-4f2...
Read MoreSingaporean co-living operator Hmlet has raised $55 million to accelerate its expansion along Australia’s east coast, with “immediate” plans to launch co-living properties in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. post-content single-post-pad...
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Read MoreBrisbane is on the cusp of a mini boom with house prices set to “accelerate” over the next three years. https://i.postimg.cc/VLTnFTLx/775c2f0c...
Read MoreFive of Sydney's 15 major regions are bearing the brunt of the population boom, having absorbed well over half of the city's growth during the past two decades. _1665V u...
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Read MoreEast Maitland will be one of the Hunter’s ‘catalyst areas’ in the next 20 years, setting targets for 1750 extra jobs, 550 extra homes and improved transport connections betwee...
Read MoreDual income properties have become a popular investment strategy in recent years. Increased property prices have forced many out of the market, causing a surge in demand for alternative living arran...
Read MoreThe NSW Government is pushing ahead with changes to the rules governing construction certificates, occupation certificates and the supervision of building work. The NSW Government is pushing ahead with ch...
Read MoreHouse prices increased across five of Australia’s eight capitals over August, the latest confirmation of the ongoing turnaround in residential market conditions. https://i.postimg.cc/sXMJY0Bx/b...
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Read MoreCanberra construction giant Geocon has signed an agreement with Marriott International regarding its $200 million Midnight hotel in the inner-city suburb of Braddon. post-content si...
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Read MoreDevelopment of a new high-tech hub at Williamtown could begin as early as next month after Newcastle Airport bought land for the project. https://i.postimg.cc/154ZgDrz...
Read MoreGreater Newcastle's population could increase to more than 1.8 million by 2056 if a regional growth plan was adopted by governments to more widely distribute the future population settlement pa...
Read MoreThe cost of congested roads and over-crowded public transport systems will double unless governments do more than just play "catch up" on transport projects, Australia's infrastructure advisory...
Read MoreQueensland’s booming industrial market has continued to strengthen with population growth, e-commerce and infrastructure projects acting as key market drivers. https://i.postimg.cc/90WnjHJM/caa...
Read MoreCity of Parramatta Council is one step closer to the construction of 5 Parramatta Square, the City’s new civic, cultural and community building, after it received endorsement from the Council to lodge a Development Application (DA) for the building. <div clas...
Read MoreFender Katsalidis, the architects behind Canberra’s NewActon precinct, has signed a contract to lead the design of the mixed-use Kingston Arts Precinct development. Fender Katsali...
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Read MoreNewcastle University has unveiled plans for its grandest infrastructure investment, a $200 million "flagship" multi-discipline building at its Callaghan campus. ...
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Read MoreGeocon has won approval for its landmark $200 million city project, paving the way for another 520 apartments to be added to the Canberra skyline. story-paragraph-...
Read MoreAfter a two-year slide, Australian house prices look to have bottomed out, sending buyers flocking back to the market. After a two-year slide, Australian house prices look to have bottomed out, sending bu...
Read MoreSydney’s largest correction in house prices since the 1980s appears to be near its end, with prices increasing in more than half of the city’s regions in the June quarter, new data shows. <div cl...
Read MoreResidents of Melbourne's partially completed super-skyscraper Australia 108 have expressed concerns over the structural integrity of the building, claiming to have experienced loud cracking sounds among a number of other defects. https://i.postimg.cc/C...
Read MoreMelbourne’s biggest property downturn since the 1980s appears to be at an end, with the latest figures showing a rise in both house and unit prices for the first time in 18 months. first-para...
Read MoreFour apartment blocks at the centre of Sydney’s building standards crisis were signed off by private certifiers who have a track record of disciplinary action against them. Four apartment blocks at ...
Read MoreHundreds of Gold Coast and Sydney off-the-plan apartment buyers have been caught out by the collapse of one of the country's biggest private developers, William O'Dwyer's Ralan Group. Hundreds of Gold Coa...
Read MoreSydney home values have grown again for the second month in a row after falling for nearly two years. The median price of all dwellings, including units, townhouses and houses, increased 0.2 per cent over July, CoreLogic’s latest home value index showed. This was an impro...
Read MoreProperty developers have scrambled to get their hands on a site in the master planned Warnervale town centre on the Central Coast, with the sale going to a Hong Kong buyer. po...
Read MoreThree more lenders have announced cuts to their interest rate floors for home loan serviceability assessments in response to APRA’s new guidance. Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, the Bank of Sydney and Au...
Read MoreInvestors and first-home buyers are reporting the first flickers of FOMO as parts of the property market start to turn and buyers move to get in at the bottom. Investors and first-home buyers are reportin...
Read MoreSydney’s property price falls slowed in the June quarter, while Melbourne’s median house and unit price increased, a move marking the first uptick in value since late 2017 for the Victorian capital. post-content single-post-padding-bottom-sm...
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Read MoreTwenty years ago about a quarter of Australians — 27 per cent — rented, but this figure has increased as the number of Australians owning their own home has fallen. alt...
Read MoreA fourth Sydney unit block has been abandoned after the developer failed to undertake adequate remediation of the site — building 127 apartments and townhouses on contaminated ground. https://i.postimg.cc/8P9BnL37/fbe7068b-3725-4249-a690-327f0104...
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Read MoreA flurry of new office buildings has been added to the construction pipeline in a rapidly gentrifying pocket of Sydney’s inner-south, as weak retail activity and a flat residential market sees...
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Read MoreAn investor-led building boom has almost doubled the size of the Sydney apartment rental market in two years, forcing landlords to drop rents more than $100 a week in some areas to secure tenants, and casting a shadow over the thousands of units still under construction....
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Read MorePremier Gladys Berejiklian says the system of regulation in the building industry is not working after the Herald revealed the evacuation of a third apartment building in Sydney. Premier Gladys ...
Read MoreAn inner Sydney apartment building remains abandoned eight months after its occupants were evacuated over water and fire safety defects, in revelations expected to deliver a fresh blow to confidence in the city's building standards. post-content single-...
Read MorePremier Gladys Berejiklian says the system of regulation in the building industry is not working after the Herald revealed the evacuation of a third apartment building in Sydney. Premier Gladys ...
Read MoreA key constraint on borrowing limits that were put in place during the property boom has been removed by the banking regulator. It's another move that may stimulate the soggy mortgage market. <section class=...
Read MoreEvery journey to home ownership is different and it didn’t take Cerise Canon long to realise the appeal of buying a house and land package in one of Australia’s growth corridors. Every...
Read MoreThe housing recovery is gaining momentum as buyers, buoyed by better borrowing conditions, stake their claim in a smaller pool of homes on the market. _2...
Read MoreThe Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has removed the serviceability buffer that required banks to assess all borrowers against their capacity to repay the loan at 7 per cent. The change – effective immediately – was https://www.afr.com/business/...
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Read MoreWhat has the best investment outlook – a house on a big block of land on the edge of suburbia or small yet affordable house closer to town? What has the best investment outlook – a hou...
Read MoreThe Reserve Bank has cut the official cash rate for the second month in a row to a fresh record low of 1 per cent as it desperately tries to pump some juice into Australia’s stalling economy.<...
Read MoreLeading property analysts believe the Sydney market will bottom out by spring and hit positive territory by the end of the year, on the back of a "confidence boost" from the Coalition's surprise election victory. post-content single-post-padding-bottom-...
Read MoreThere’s a light at the end of the tunnel in Melbourne’s property market, which has shown positive signs in recent weeks as it shivers through wintry conditions. post-c...
Read MoreHouse prices in suburbs along the new Sydney Metro Northwest train line have grown by almost triple the national average — and the new transport link has been credited as a significant driver. House...
Read MoreAuction volumes across the country last week recorded their strongest numbers in 12 months. Auction volumes across the country last week recorded their strongest ...
Read More Despite a cooling housing market over the past 12 months, many of the housing challenges that have plagued Australians in recent years show no signs of diminishing. <div class...
Read MoreConstruction of 191,550 new homes in Greater Sydney is forecast in the next five years, a 22 per cent increase, or an extra 34,300 new homes, with Parramatta anticipated to become home to a vast majority of them. post-content single-post-padding-bottom-...
Read MoreDeveloper value-add incentives like rebates and low deposit terms have had little effect on Melbourne’s land market, with lot sales for the March quarter down 59.5 per cent from 2018. https://i.postimg.cc/1zfpJF3q/85a8c797-0b1c-4890-8075-cae0b745...
Read MoreOver a lifetime your financial position and priorities develop and change.The typical pathway starts with saving, accumulating wealth in your working years, and then spending your retirement enjoying ...
Read More With cash rate cuts well and truly priced in and a widely-reported improvement in sentiment, Australia’s housing market is looking like it may bottom out earlier than expected. https://i.postimg.cc/gJwHkTXj/dbaf24f4-144a-4b08-8fbd-...
Read MoreWhen you purchase a property and rent it out to university students, you can often get a higher-than-average rental yield for the area. According to the ...
Read MoreAre you claiming all you’re entitled to at tax time? Find out what tax deductions you can claim on an investment property and maximise your deductions this June 30. post-content si...
Read MoreIt's now more expensive to rent a house in Hobart than Melbourne, with rents rising in the Tasmanian capital 7.1 per cent over the quarter. ory-cell ory-cell...
Read MoreWhere you want to live is not always where you can afford to live. Rentvesting lets you live where you want, while getting a foot on the property ladder. post-content single-post-pa...
Read MoreCanberra turns 106 today (Canberra Day) and our nation’s capital, which was officially named in March 1913, is stacking up against Sydney and Melbourne in terms of its affordability as an inves...
Read MoreAre you a home owner looking to buy an investment property? You may be able to use the equity in your home as a deposit to buy the property without using your own cash. post-content s...
Read MoreThe former home of the Terranora Lakes Country Club owned by hospitality heavyweights Godfrey and Jenny Mantle has come to market with project approval for more than 1600 residential lot...
Read MoreBrisbane’s apartment market has been steadily declining since 2016, but as supply and demand rebalance, inner Brisbane’s apartment market is expected to stabilise this year and into 2020. https://i.postimg.cc/pXF6c38B/df7cbd37-5eca-4aad-b25...
Read MoreInvestment activity in the Gold Coast office market was subdued in 2018 with few assets on offer, although Knight Frank expects the tide to change this year with around $90 million in assets hitting the market in 2019's first quarter. post-content singl...
Read MoreBucking the nationwide trend of falling capital city house prices, Canberra’s market is only just warming up. ory-row...
Read MoreThe Federal Court of Australia has frozen a suspected land banking scheme in Melbourne that raised more than $10 million from investors, after an application by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission.The scheme is operated by Broadmeadows-based Askk Investment Group. ...
Read MoreInitial site investigations for Melbourne's $50 billion Suburban Rail Loop will start in the second half of 2019 with specific station locations for the underground network yet to be finalised. https://i.postimg.cc/MT86XgRZ/245b1665-94d4-44f9-8e44-eaf0...
Read MoreThe Sunshine Coast will open up to more airborne visitors as a result of the construction of a new airport runway, generating demand for more tourism accommodation and services. al...
Read MoreBrisbane is like a car where the engine is revving but it can’t move forward because the handbrake is on. The city’s property market is poised for an up-cycle but, according to ...
Read MoreWhy do we believe we’ll see increasing investor interest in this market? Strong population growth, a diversified and growing economy, and substantial investment in infrastructure should combin...
Read MoreBrisbane has just earned the title of Australia’s top capital for price growth in the luxury residential market for the first time. Brisbane has just earned the title of Australia’s top capita...
Read MoreSydney and Melbourne dwelling values have now recorded respective falls of 14.5 per cent and 10.9 per cent since peaking in late 2017. But, ...
Read MoreProperty markets across the country have been given a shot in the arm, with Australia’s banking regulator announcing its plans to relax the assessment rate for home loans. p...
Read MoreIn a move that is most likely to benefit owner-occupiers and the wider property market, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is proposing the 7 per cent serviceability buffer on home loans be removed. https://i.postimg.cc/sfYGzdq2/27936fa7-30...
Read MoreSydney's rental vacancy rate has lifted to 3.4 per cent in April with nearly 8,000 homes across the city emptying over the past year. Sydney’s renta...
Read MoreThere was very little directly related to housing in this year’s Federal Budget, however regional Australia is the clear winner. There was very little directly related to housing in this yea...
Read More$649 million redevelopment in Sydney’s Cockle Bay, announced more than three years ago but left up in the air due to overshadowing concerns, has been given the green light by the state’...
Read MoreNanshan has lodged plans with council for the progressive development of the 227-hectare site into a masterplan for 300 homes, a hotel precinct with a 150-key hotel and an internal road network and landscape strategy. https://i.postimg.cc/wBBjs36W/45d7...
Read MoreYoung couples are securing Sydney homes while still living a high life of holidays and expensive dinners by using a clever home building strategy that minimises their mortgage obligations. https://i.postimg.cc/sDBdkST9/1f56803c3a17219d7334baecffecdd29....
Read More Tuggerah Lakes Private Hospital (TLPH), the former Wyong Shire’s newest major health facility, has moved closer to completion, with staff announcing that the hospital will open i...
Read MoreThe first CoreLogic Quarterly Rental Review for 2019, which tracks median rents and rental yields across Australia, shows that national weekly rents have risen by ...
Read MoreState and local governments collected a whopping $30.293 billion worth of property tax revenue over the 2017-18 financial year. If you were to compare these statistics to what was published last year, the figure...
Read MoreDwelling sales were down in four of the five Queensland regions over the year to November 2018 with the Wide Bay region the only location to see an increase in home ...
Read MoreMigration data which was recently released by the ABS showed that as of June 2018, an estimated 17,650,130 residents of Australia were born in Australia. post-content single-post-p...
Read MoreOne of the city’s oldest commercial buildings will be incorporated into Maitland City Council’s...
Read MoreThe NSW State Government have announced plans to change stamp duty price brackets. From 1 July 2019, stamp duty price brackets will be pegged to CPI (Consumer Price Index) resulting in savings for property buyers. Initial savings would be anywhere between $200 to $600 with those saving...
Read MoreA new commercial development at Macquarie Park has been labelled “Australia’s first community business district” by the developers who will commit $750 milli...
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Read MoreResidential development at Lake Munmorah and a proposal to rezone land at Wallarah for employment uses and environmental conservation, are outlined in the Interim Darkinjung Development Delivery Plan Central Coast Council is currently progressing three Darkinjung plannin...
Read MoreA Notice of Motion from Councillor Greg Best called for council to engage all levels of government in the timely lead-up to the 2019 elections, taking a “whole of lakes” approach through triggering a much needed 2020 Tuggerah Lakes Restoration Project. ...
Read MoreThe government’s property management agency, Property NSW, is calling for expressions of interest to lease office space for more than 4000 staff from 2022. <div class...
Read MoreAustralian property values fell $133.1 billion in the December quarter, with capital city home prices down an average of 2.4 per cent across th...
Read MoreThe new Maitland Hospital could open as early as 2022, with the successful contractor and project manager announced on Wednesday.The new Maitland Hospital will be almost twice the size of the exist...
Read MoreDeveloper Celestino’s plans are on track to develop Australia's first smart city, Sydney Science Park in Western Sydney. Celestino and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) met with transport and infrastructure experts along with technology providers on Friday ...
Read MoreA joint project by AA Crown Holdings and Northside Group, the $350m Northside Private Hospital and medical precinct will deliver world class medical services to compl...
Read MoreThousands of Sydneysiders are leaving their home suburbs for other parts of the city and the state with new figures revealing a slowdown in the capital's runaway population growth.Australian Bureau of Statistics data showed the Greater Sydney area added 93,411 residents ...
Read MoreANZ Banking Group is loosening some of the clamps it put on interest-only mortgage lending in 2017, after pledging to reopen the door to property investors following a period of excessive caution. The big four lenders on Thursday said it would again start offering customers an interest...
Read MoreThe new Maitland Hospital will provide an extensive range of adult and paediatric services including emergency, paediatric, maternity, chemotherapy and state-of-the-art operating suites.Located o...
Read MoreFamilies across the Hunter region will benefit from the redevelopment of John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle. As the major teaching and referral hospital for our region, this $780 million investment i...
Read MoreDahua has bought one of the last large parcels of land in Point Cook. Related Posts ...
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Read MoreThe project is set to generate 2000 new jobs and will be based at the Hunter Valley Economic Zone (HEZ), near Kurri Kurri at an estimated cost of 4 - 5 billion dollars. ...
Read MoreCentral Coast Council is preparing to deliver one of the region’s most significant infrastructure projects – a nine kilometre water pipeline from Mardi to Warnervale. <div...
Read MoreThe Hunter region has an estimated 322,000 jobs and this is projected to increase to 384,000 by 2036. The Hunter has a GDP of $43 billion, substantially outpacing NT, TAS and ACT. This is in addition to urban development projects totalling nearly $4 billion dollars, vaca...
Read MoreNow is the time to invest in Central coast region as NSW Government pledges $2.8 billion on new infrastructure. With creation of 5000 new homes, around 10,000 jobs created during construction of th...
Read MoreNSW Education Minister Rob Stokes has reassured parents that the new Warnervale Public School is on track to be completed by late 2021. ...
Read MoreScores of apartments in a multimillion-dollar Sydney complex will be sold in one line by receivers after the project’s developer fell victim to Australia’s property slump. In a further sign of cracks in the apartment market, receivers and managers Newpoint Advisory are sell...
Read MoreThe Australian banking regulator will remove restrictions on interest-only mortgage lending for some Australian banks from ...
Read MoreThe construction industry is one of the backbones of the nation's economy and, in recent years, residential building on the east coast has been a key driver of growth. <div class...
Read MoreAs part of its housing affordability plans, the federal opposition has announced its plans to incentivise property investors should it come into power next year. post-cont...
Read MoreFleet leasing executive Rebecca Crowley knew it was time to get out of Sydney when her landlord raised the rent on her two-bedroom apartment in Surry Hills to $900 a week. She and her flatmate were already paying $807 a week. Her shar...
Read MoreMaitland’s population growth is showing no signs of slowing down, with more than 80,000 people now calling city home. Preliminary data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday estimated that 81,235 people lived in Maitland as of June 30 last year, almost 2000 mo...
Read MoreThe NSW Government has announced a crackdown on dodgy building certifiers as it tries to manage the fallout from Sydney's Opal Tower fiasco. inline-content wysiwyg ri...
Read MoreMayfield’s Ruth Larkin and Amie Wilson were excited to hear in September that their new home, which had been under construction for the past 12 months, would be completed early. <d...
Read MoreThe NSW Government has a vision for vibrant and growing regional economies, providing NSW reside...
Read MoreDesigns have been unveiled for the $200 million Wyong Hospital Redevelopment. When complete, the redevelopment will increase the service capacity of the hospital w...
Read MoreThe first images of the $300 million new Intercity Fleet maintenance facility at Kangy Angy have been released by the State Government. The cont...
Read MoreApartment buyer Tom Christensen, 31, said buying a Sydney unit off-the-plan has left him “scarred”. He and his partner bought the inner city property four years ago for $1.65 million and despite being contracted to be completed in 2015 it was only finished this year. <...
Read MoreThe volume of housing stock listed for sale is currently higher, for this time of year, than it has been in many years. While total stock is elevated, newly listed stock remains at fairly similar levels to recent y...
Read MoreIt has been 11 years since the first disturbing allegations began to emerge from the Grand Western Lodge boarding house in the small town of Millthorpe, near Orange, but the residents’ stories still send a shiver down the spine. ”The residents have told us how they were bas...
Read MoreNearly a third of Sydney’s newly completed units are now worth less than what their buyers will have to pay for them. Many of the homes were purchased a...
Read MoreFOR more than 100 years it was home to the Hunter’s first heavy industry, one of the region’s chief polluters. ...
Read MoreVacancy rates are starting to rise back after last month’s decline, new data shows The October 2018 edition of the REI...
Read MoreThe drive behind building more environmentally friendly residential homes is coming from individuals, not government bodies, and cookie-cutter developments are holding us back, according to a think tank assem...
Read MoreLow-rise medium-density housing, widely considered “the missing part” of NSW housing stock, could be the way forward as new concessions for developers kick in. NSW is currently experiencing consistent growth in townhouse development and a surge in medium-de...
Read MoreAn iconic property in Smith Street Wollongong that has operated as a boarding house for more than 30 years, will be auctioned next month. <...
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Read MoreTwo boarding houses in Campbelltown have been approved by council last night but councillors have warned they don’t want to see the area flooded with the high-density accommodation. A nine-bedroom boarding house was approved for 1 Boc...
Read MoreNSW-based developer Revelop Holdings have lodged a proposal with the City of Parramatta for an eight-storey boarding house. Designed by PBD Architects, Revelop have committed around $5 million to the pr...
Read MoreHousing affordability for low income workers in Wollongong has become a “serious and growing problem”, prompting a developer to pitch...
Read MoreThe Sydney developer behind a $1.9 million boarding house complex planned for McLachlan Street has revealed he has two more proposed for Orang...
Read MoreAustralian home prices fell for a 13th consecutive month in October, driven by continued falls in Sydney and Melbourne, the largest and most expensive capital city markets. CoreLogic’s Home Value Index slid 0....
Read MorePart of the Snowy Hydro Legacy Fund is set to be spent on funding a new corridor for a “very fast train” between Canberra and Sydney. <d...
Read MoreFORCES are gathering for the Central Coast’s very own wave park. Millionaire properly developer Tony Denny would be willing to invest and ...
Read MoreAn estimated $400m in Snowy Hydro Scheme funding is expected to be made available to Central Coast Council from the NSW Government’s sale of its share of the Snowy Hydro Scheme to the ...
Read MoreCENTRAL Coast trainers are set to be the biggest beneficiaries of a $6 million master plan announced for Wyong Race Club today, with an all-weather training tra...
Read MoreSydney house prices will fall 5.1 per cent this year, and then tread water in 2019 with only a 0.6 per cent gain, according to forecasts by Moody’s Analytics and Corelogic. However, the correction in NSW won’t be uniform with more affordable areas like the Central...
Read MoreThe latest CoreLogic home value index results show the slowdown in the national market has become more broadly based with regional dwelling value growth continuing to slow. In this week’s Pulse we lo...
Read MoreTHE Central Coast has been ranked in the top ten regional markets in the nation, and here is why. des...
Read MoreBRISBANE is on the brink of something big. Very big. A generational investment in infrastructure will transform Queensland’s capital over the coming decade. ...
Read MoreACT government investment in infrastructure projects has risen 10 per cent in the past year, largely due to the stage one light rail project, but it is expected to slow next year, as work on the project ends. The...
Read MoreIF YOU’RE looking for a rental property that pretty much pays for itself then these are the 40 Australian suburbs where you should start your hunt. Some might surprise you. ...
Read MoreThe University of New South Wales Council has approved the strategic investment to develop a new research, education and innovation precinct in Canberra’s CBD. <div class=...
Read MoreBooming foreign student enrolments at Canberra’s universities is fuelling growth in the city while the threat of public service job cuts is receding, says one of Australia’s leading private sector forecasters...
Read MoreAustralian home prices fell for an eleventh consecutive month in August, led by declines in a majority of capital cities. According to CoreLogic’s Hedonic Home Value Index, Australia’s median home price fell 0.3%, adding to a 0.6% drop recorded previously in July. T...
Read MoreMASSIVE $50bn pledge to connect all of Melbourne’s rail lines with an underground loop hasn’t been inspected by Victoria’s ind...
Read MoreEvery other day we hear a media story claiming the Canberra apartment market is in the doldrums. Just this week, the tired mantra that Canberra&r...
Read MoreFor many years the word Canberra has been followed by a yawn, then associated with bureaucracy and stuffy politicians. However, those times,...
Read MoreThe population of Melbourne, Australia’s fastest growing city, is today (Monday, August 27) due to reach the five million milestone, just three weeks after Australia’s population hit the 25 million mar...
Read MoreThe amount of Chinese cash which once poured into Australian property has about halved, leaving develop...
Read MoreWhether you’ve just purchased your first investment property or if you’re juggling multiple rentals, as with many things in life, the unexpected can and will happen. For peace of mi...
Read MoreWhile one expert has labelled this state as “disappointing” with a lack of high returns, he di...
Read MoreIt is all about the money when it comes to investing in property, and preparing yourself financially is absolutely essential and will save you a lot of financial stress and baggage in the long-term. We have put together ...
Read MoreTourism Central Coast is spilling the beans on being “Sydney’s best-kept adventure secret” in its latest campaign. “Our research identified very early on that there was a clear disconnect between perceptions of the Central Coast and the actual reality&rdqu...
Read MoreWoongarrah, Hamlyn Terrace, Wadalba, Warnervale, and Glenning Valley are the epicentre of residential development on the Central Coast, e...
Read MoreTHE Western Sydney Aerotropolis officially lifts off today with the turning of the first sod on a $5 billion Sydney Science Park that will deliver 12,000 jobs and 3000 homes. The futuristic science park on a 280ha site a...
Read MoreCoreLogic’s latest hedonic home value index released Wednesday showed the median price of a home across the city fell 0.6 per cent over July and 1.1 per cent over the past three months. I...
Read MoreAussie recently released there 25 Years of Housing Trends report. This report showcases: Strong housing market conditions have boosted household wealth over the past quarter of a century. The ave...
Read MoreImpeded by an uninviting property tax landscape, the build-to-rent sector has been stagnant in Australia despite the increasing viability of the model as home ownership rates continue to plunge. More than 40 per cent of Australians now rent by choice and the proportion...
Read MoreMelbourne airport will soon be home to Australia’s largest st...
Read MoreConstruction of the long-awaited Melbourne airport rail link could start within four years after the Victorian Labor government promised to match a $5 billion funding pledge commitment from the federal government. Victorian Premie...
Read MoreThe NSW government’s land and property development arm, Landcom, has unveiled plans for a $390 million development for 1,100 homes adjacent to the new Tallawong Metro Station. The precinct, which...
Read MoreOnly one capital city’s median rental price for houses increased over the June quarter according to the latest Domain Rental Report out today. The national median rental price for houses remained ste...
Read MoreBrisbane’s office market is starting to feel the positive effects of an economic turnaround coupled with a flurry of investment activity, with more than $2 billion worth transactions taking place in the city&...
Read MoreA significant drop-off in apartments in the construction pipeline has dragged down the number of buildings approved across the country in February, according to the latest data from the Australian Bure...
Read MoreA joint proposal by GPT, Brookfield and AMP for the $1 billion redevelopment of Sydney’s Cockle Bay Wharf has undergone another set of revisions in plans submitted to the NSW government earlier this month. The consortium’s ambitious plans for a waterfront p...
Read MoreThe disparate state of Australia’s property market has been laid bare in a new report, with prices in some markets falling by 7.4%, while others are booming, with price growth of just over than 16% year-on-...
Read MoreWinter is here, and while you may be looking forward to a season of mulled wine and woolly jumpers, you’re probably less excited about months of huddling around your living room heater. If ...
Read MoreThe regulatory clampdown on Australia’s heavily-scrutinised banks is now “largely done”, according to overseer Wayne Byres, who has declared “the heavy lifting on lending stan...
Read MoreParramatta’s rapidly growing CBD is set to get even busier with hundreds of new hotel rooms set to come online by 2020. Two major hotel developments have been given the green light this m...
Read MoreDespite recent house price weakness...
Read MoreNew South Wales will be the first state to fund a dedicated build-to-rent model, Minister for Social Housing Pru Goward revealed on Friday. The minister revealed that a Communities Plus housing s...
Read MoreMelbourne’s apartment market has not been immune to commentary about oversupply, however a new report suggests that current supply is balancing out demand in the inner-city apartment market with median prices growing steadily in the past six months....
Read MoreIt’s more than a patch of dirt – this is the land where your dream house will soon live. So it pays to ensure your block is absolutely right for you. Here are some important factors t...
Read MoreOne of Canada’s largest property investors, Oxford Properties Group, has joined the race for the $1.4 billion office component of Grocon’s vast Central Bara...
Read MoreParramatta’s Light Rail is scheduled to commence stage one of construction by the end of 2018 after receiving planning approval. The first stage of the Light Rail plan, a two-way track which will sp...
Read MoreBRISBANE is back among Australia’s fastest-growing cities thanks to a growth spurt, but more people are flocking to areas outside the state’s capital....
Read MoreHobart has pipped Sydney to claim the unenviable title of Australia’s most unaffordable capital for tenants with the gap widening between incomes and the amount needed for rent, a new report has found....
Read MoreSYDNEYSIDERS are wasting almost twice as much time commuting as their counterparts in big cities in countries such as Spain. A landmark new report also reveals how ou...
Read MoreAIRBNB will make an aggressive push to convince NSW it contributes almost $1 billion and 7000 jobs to the economy as the State Government prepares to crack ...
Read MoreIT’S time to accept that the rail maintenance facility is going ahead in Kangy Angy and celebrate the benefits to the Central Coast. That ...
Read MoreOwners of small, narrow properties who never thought their blocks were suitable for development are set to benefit under new statewide planning laws designed to fast-track medium-de...
Read MoreEveryone loves a great deal, which is why home builders may be tempted by the idea of getting two homes for the price of one. Although it costs more to build a duplex than ...
Read MoreAccording to the CoreLogic hedonic home value index, national dwelling values were unchanged in March, with the steady month on month reading comprised of a 0.2% fall in capital city dwelling values while t...
Read MoreLenders have successfully met the macroprudential limits set by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) in March 2017, halving the category in the D...
Read MoreIn NSW, returns from regional properties were almost double those in capital cities The CoreLogic total returns...
Read MoreA DA (Development Application) refers to the process where Development Consent is required from Council in order to build something on your property – e.g. a new house, an extension or a deck. In som...
Read MoreCAMPBELLTOWN is set to more than double in size over the next 30 years with a radical new plan to be unveiled today providing a blueprint for how its residents will live and work in the city in the ...
Read MoreGreat news from one of our overseas clients with tenants found for their new Investment home in Melbourne in ONE DAY, a KOALA INVEST RECORD!! Related Posts related-post col-xs-1...
Read MoreREDUCING travel time between Newcastle and Sydney from three to two hours could be a “game changer” for the Central Coast. Straigh...
Read MoreGreat News for the Central Coast and Hunter Regions A recent update to the Investment Prospectus of the Hunter and Central Coast Reg...
Read MoreDA, CDC and Section 94 Explained Two of the most asked about topics that often comes up when starting the planning process a...
Read MoreWhat is a Duplex? What is a Dual Occupancy? Are there differences? Koala Invest strives to find the best solution for the rental mar...
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Read More12.59ha close to Kooindah Waters Golf Club and other major Governement Investments post-content single-post-padding-bottom-sm...
Read MoreHousing approvals rose by 8 percent last year Recent data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has shown a increase in housing app...
Read MoreNew rehabilitation facilities have been approved for a local hospital. A new rehabilitation ward has been opened at...
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Read MoreKey workers are being shut out of Sydney Property New South Wales’s high house price...
Read MoreCentral coast rail line gets major upgrade New infrastructure aimed at securing power for the Central Coast-Newcastle railway line...
Read MoreRenting an apartment on the Central Coast is almost as expensive as living in some parts of Sydney. Renting an apart...
Read MoreMr Zigomanis said it wasn’t surprising that Sydney and Australia has seen slight ranking slips, or that Australia had failed to rank among the top five countr...
Read MoreKoala Invest recently settled another Dual Occupancy Investment Package for one of our clients that offered the best in Capital Growth, Rental Yield and Rental Income. Located nearby to the beautiful Lake Macquarie. S...
Read MoreNewcastle has become one of Australia's investment hotspots Growth in Newcastle has been spectacular in the past ...
Read More I was a town planner at the former City of South Sydney in the mid-nineties when brothels became legal. Brothel opera...
Read MoreThe NSW Government has released a Draft Greater Newcastle Metropolitan Plan which sets out urban strategies to 2036 for Newcastle City, Cessnock, Lake Macquarie, Maitla...
Read MoreGreat news for residents in the Central Coast and for tourism in the area. <div class=...
Read MoreThe idea of earning two incomes from one property may sound too good to be true, but according to Phillip Allen, investment property strategist and owner of...
Read MoreA reduction in High Density dwellings of 10.8% has been recorded Tighter lending curbs on investors will deepen a downturn in high-ris...
Read MoreWorld-class Central Coast Medical School and Research Institute announced for Gosford THE Turnb...
Read MoreDo you want to get your building that you are planning to buy inspected? Then, you need to hire an expert and professional Building Inspections Adelaide who will identify the hidden defects in the building that would...
Read MoreCanberra’s housing boom in the past decade is the biggest on record for the ACT and has created an oversupply of more than 6000 apartments in the city, but if the population continues to grow at current rates, it is likely to soak up the excess supply. The boom had led to an...
Read More$145M Updrage between Doyalson and Tuggerah The busy 12-kilometre stretch between Doyalson and Tugg...
Read MoreAre you considering buying an old house to refurbish it and sell it off at a considerable profit? Or are you just planning to buy an old house to save some money?...
Read MoreSTEP aside Sydney. While you’re one of the most expensive cities in the world, another city has become the next big thing. STEP aside Sydney...
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Read More1164 m2 lakeside block in Morisset Park Land price records for Morisset Park have been smashed with a wealth...
Read MoreWhat should you look for in a suburb when investing? A constant burning issue among investors is finding the next property inv...
Read MoreThis is an extract from a Certified Practicing Accountant- David Shaw. It shows the cash positive opportunities a dual offers for a retiree or a first home investor. https://i.postimg.cc/C...
Read MoreMajor Infrastructure upgrades for the Wyong-Warnervale area healthcare systems Major improvements to the Wyong Hospital have been se...
Read More Warnervale tipped to receive a major boost to economy with new town centre Recent work towa...
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