Sydney has 600,000 bedrooms not being used according to data compiled by EY from 2016 Census estimates.
Unlocking the additional capacity within 30 minutes of the Sydney CBD could boost New South Wales’ GDP by $750 million annually,...
CoreLogic today released its September quarter largest regional area insights which once again confirms The Illawarra region in New South Wales as the country’s standout regional performer by recording the largest annual increase in home values of 13.0 per cent for houses and 17.0 per ce...
We are often asked about the rules around foreign investment and the impact that such investors have on the Australian housing market. While concrete data are hard to come by, we are able to combine existing data with informed assumptions to reve...
The party is finally winding down for our housing market. How severe the hangover is will determine the economy's fate for years to come.
After five years of surging prices, the market value of the nation's homes has ballooned to $7.3 trillion - or more than four times gross domestic p...
REVEALS THE EASY-TO-UNDERSTAND BUT HARD-TO-LIVE IDEA THAT KEEPS YOU FROM CREATING WEALTH
Most people want wealth, but few will do what’s necessary to create it.
Why do people want certain things, and never take action to achieve them?
What subconscious thought p...
When the topic of investing in apartments and managing strata levies comes up, it often generates some robust discussion.
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Wouldn’t it be nice to attract more health and wealth into your home?
While Feng Shui isn’t a new concept to most – it’s often believed that changes to the house would be complicated and expensive.
But an article on https://www.huffingtonpo...
OVERSEAS buyers will no longer be allowed to purchase existing homes in New Zealand, Prime Minister-elect Jacinda Ardern said, as she unveiled a raft of policy deals made with her coalition partners.
Australia's national house price growth is likely to be flat - or possibly in low single digits - for the several years, according to UBS.
The latest UBS report, 'Get rich or borrow trying', warns that even small changes to ...
Did you know that over 60% of Australian households own a pet?
Now what’s also interesting is that many landlords and managing agents to have a ‘no pets’ policy on rental tenancies.
Perhaps it’s becau...
Michael Simmons, a former Gold Coast resident letting agent has been banned from the real estate industry for 10 years following an Office of Fair Trading (OFT) investigation.
Simmons was a licensed residential letting agent, collecting rent and holiday income for apartments in Burleig...
Australia is becoming wealthier, but much of that wealth remains concentrated in the hands of older generations, writes…
Wouldn’t it be great to know what’s ahead for our property?
Currently the future seems uncertain as we head into the more mature stage of this property cycle and most commentators seem to fall into one of two camps:
One group suggests we’re in...
Teachers Mutual Bank and its subsidiary banks will reduce rates for new owner-occupier, principal and interest fixed rate home loans across all brands, according to Australian Broker.
Australian Broker reports the changes are effective 17 August 2017 for new business only, and entail a...
Australia’s economy could be at risk from a housing market downturn if Chinese buyers retreat from residential property in Australia, according to a former US Federal Reserve official.
Dr Nellie Liang, who was in Sydney recently to share her views on financial stability with the ...
But do a few rounds of data constitute a property “slide”?
Or are the markets just taking a well-earned break?
According to CoreLogic head of research Tim Lawless, Australia’s capital cities saw a cooling of <a ...
CoreLogic recently released the June 2017 Mapping the Market Report.
The report looks at how the cost of housing has shifted across Australia’s capital cities by suburbs over the past five years by comparing thematic maps which show suburb median values.</p...
2016 was a huge year for overseas homebuyers from China that saw underlying trends flagged by us in December 2015 playing out to great effect.
With China’s GDP ...
Australia’s central bank kept interest rates unchanged and warned a rising currency is expected to subdue inflation and weigh on the outlook for growth and employment.
The Australian dollar has surged more than 11 percent this year, hampering the Reserve Bank’s efforts to t...
Undersupply can’t be blamed for property prices being unaffordable as construction is already keeping up with population growth, new research has found.
In an analysis conducted by buyer’s agency Propertyology, national supply of residential dwelling construction over two t...
Ten years ago the difference between the cost of housing in Sydney and Perth was $5000.
Today, there couldn’t be two more different markets in the country.
The investors who bet on Perth will have completely missed the 118 pe...
It’s the end of an affordability era. After a five-year boom Sydney has just one suburb left with a median house price under $500,000.
The lone hold-out is ...
Australia’s biggest banks will have to hold more capital under fresh guidelines from the prudential regulator aimed at ensuring the institutions are “unquestionably strong.’’
The four major banks -- https://www.bloomberg.co...
National Australia Bank will start automatically rejecting customers who want to borrow a high multiple of their income and only pay interest on their home loan, amid concerns over the growing risks created by rising household indebtedness.
From this Saturday, the bank w...
Of the many personality types who inhabit the real estate investment, the least enlightened are the ones I call the real estate snobs.
These are the people who won’t consider investing in an area they personally would not choose to live in. Their objections are usually couched in...
The NSW Government in the 2017 Budget announced changes to this scheme which are planned to take effect from 1 July 2017.
The 2016 NSW Budget introduced a 4 per cent ...
Three old adjoining shops for sale on Sydney’s north shore with no current development application approval in place have smashed their reserve price at auction by more than 33 per cent after a bidding war between eight buyers.
The $8,925,000 sale price f...