Luxe Listings is the latest offering in Australian real estate reality TV. Accuracies, inaccuracies and more
August 25th, 2021
This genre has been staple viewing since Maggie and Richard’s The Home Show in the early 1990’s and many other long-running shows in the meantime like Location, Location, Location, Grand Designs, Love It or List It, and The Block. Have such sh
Read MoreThe 2019/2020 bushfires – a game changer for Sydney’s property market
January 28th, 2020
“What will global warming look like? Scientists point to Australia,” ran a headline in the Los Angeles Times in 2009. A decade later, the world is pointing to Australia – and much of the country is literally on fire. With Australia in
Read MoreInternational students – a ticking time bomb in the Sydney property market?
October 13th, 2019
International education is Australia’s third largest export industry after iron ore and coal, worth $32.4 billion to the economy, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. (Depending on one’s definition of exports, other ec
Read MoreThe Regulator: friend or foe of Sydney property buyers?
July 10th, 2019
Most property buyers in Sydney come to the table with similar preoccupations and questions: does the house or apartment they are looking at have a view? Is it north facing? Are there any noisy bars in earshot? How far is it from a train station?
Read MoreMedia mania: Sydney’s property market – seeing it for what it is
April 10th, 2019
In September last year, 60 Minutes, Channel Nine’s flagship current affairs program, predicted that house prices in Sydney could fall by as much as 40 percent in just 12 months.Over six months later and there is no sight yet of such a dram
Read MoreIs Sydney’s residential property market bottoming out ? – On this data, maybe
October 11th, 2018
In their recent blog Decoding Property Buying Intentions Digital Finance Analytics (DFA) has extracted data from their 52,000 strong data base to assess current, nation wide property buying intentions. Borrowing from Bachman Turner Overdrive’s 1
Read MoreThe flattening Sydney property market – four reasons why this time could be different
April 11th, 2018
Driven by high credit and population growth, Sydney’s property market has been on an almost uninterrupted upwards trajectory for well over a decade.During that period, it has proven remarkably resilient to various shocks which, in order of
Read MoreThe Sydney Metro. A bonanza for Sydney residential and commercial property buyers or not?
February 19th, 2018
For a city of its size many consider it a crime that Sydney does not already have a metro system. Yet, with the New South Wales capital predicted to reach eight million people by 2050, the government is now looking to remedy that. The initial leg
Read MoreSydney’s property market and the need for greater data transparency
August 4th, 2015
In this, the last edition of CurtiseCall before the launch of the new Curtis Associates website, we reproduce below our Submission to the Standing Committee on Economics Inquiry into Home Ownership. That submission will be supplemented by evidenc
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