Sydney’s October 2014 property market – emerging trends and a reminder that things move in cycles
October 31st, 2014
With the onset of warm weather, the latest noise from the property commentariat has been deafening.This month the obsessions were less with foreign buyers edging out local first home buyers and more with old chestnuts like negative gearing; p
Read MoreLow Interest Rates Could Make Australian Economy Unstable
October 8th, 2014
Low interest rates lead to higher house prices as a result of more lending and more borrowing, says Jacob Greber, an economics correspondent with The Australian Financial Review. This could spell disaster for the Australian economy when interest ra
Read MoreYoung Sydneysiders Priced Out of a Home
October 1st, 2014
High property prices in Sydney have locked young people out of the housing market, according to Eamon Waterford, director of Youth Action, in The Sydney Morning Herald. While a few can borrow a couple hundred thousand dollars from their parents,
Read MoreSydney property all froth and bubble – we just don’t buy it.
September 19th, 2014
If confirmation of mainstream media's interest in turbo charging Sydney's residential property market were needed, property buyers needed to look no further in the past six weeks than the most recent front pages of the Murdoch owned community newspap
Read MoreThe Effect of Sustainability on Real Estate Values
September 17th, 2014
In a recent report by Hotspotting, it has been found that sustainable infrastructure developments pay off through higher property values. So investors who want to choose the next property hotspot should look for areas that have good public transpor
Read MoreBondi Junction to Spark a Sustainable Future for Sydney
September 12th, 2014
The community of Bondi Junction in Sydney can help shape a sustainable future for not only the precinct, but also for the rest of the city, said the Mayor of Waverley Council, Sally Betts, on The Fifth Estate. At a presentation in the East Leagu
Read MoreGovernment – a key player in Sydney’s property market
July 31st, 2014
The results for the financial year ended 30 June 2014 are in with all major research houses expressing a conclusion similar to Residex that the Sydney property market during that year achieved a “staggering 15.37% growth rate in the housing market
Read MoreDisconnect Between Euphoric Markets and Economy Could Cause Another GFC
July 30th, 2014
A recent report by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) found that there’s a disconnect between euphoric markets and the economy which could lead to another global financial crisis (GFC), wrote Philip Baker of The Australian Financial Rev
Read MoreWhat can Australia learn from Germany’s Progressive Property Market?
July 16th, 2014
“It’s not a house, it’s a home,” Daryl Kerrigan once said in the quintessentially Australian film The Castle. But it seems that this very obsession with homeownership is holding the country back, argued Eryk Bagshaw in The Sydney Morning He
Read MoreA Guide to Sydney’s Top Property Suburbs 2014-2015
July 7th, 2014
Domain.com.au estimated house values in suburbs around Sydney with the release of their 2014 property guide. However, they should truly only be understood as a guide. As Chris Curtis explains in his article about the contradictory nature of recen
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