A helicopter view of the Winter 2012 Sydney property market for hibernating buyers
July 31st, 2012
Media reports of rising clearance rates disguised the fact that relative to the same month last year, turnover in Sydney’s property market plummeted this month. As a comparison between statistics compiled by Australian Property Monitors for each of
Read MoreRenovator’s delights in Sydney’s top end residential property market – beware of fool’s gold
June 30th, 2012
A further 0.25% cut in the official cash rate this month and a rebound in US orders for durable goods failed to allay investor concerns about Europe’s continuing debt woes and the impact of the poorly understood carbon tax. As a result, the local s
Read MoreThe Sydney residential property market over $1.5 million in May 2012. Let’s dance!
May 31st, 2012
Following the popularity of our CurtiseCall April 2012, this month we present a similar analysis to last but with a twist – no pun intended. Instead of comparing May 2012 with May 2011, here we compare house sales over $1.5 million in May 2012
Read MoreThe Sydney residential property market over $1.5 million. Nobody much feels like dancing
April 30th, 2012
Following the near disappearance of the Euro debt crisis from the headlines and anecdotal evidence of increased activity and auction clearance rates associated with a likely drop in the official cash rate, it seems like an ideal time to assess th
Read MoreSydney’s property market awakes in 2012 to find the devil is in the details
February 29th, 2012
If proof were needed that buying property is a risky business, one needs look no further than the first few weeks of activity in the 2012 Sydney property market.As discussed below, the devil is in the details which in some cases paint a very diff
Read MoreThe Sydney residential property market – 2011 market wrap and predictions for 2012 as Europe holds the key above $1 million
December 31st, 2011
Mainstream commentators this month described Sydney’s property market as having run out of puff despite and as predicted in CurtiseCall’s December 2010 market wrap, cuts in the official interest rate. This conclusion was based largely on so c
Read MoreForced sales in the Sydney property market – rich pickings for investors?
November 30th, 2011
In the search for buying opportunities, Curtis Associates, buyers’ agents in Sydney, noticed a trend which began in October 2011 in the number of Sydney residential and commercial and retail properties being advertised for sale by mortgagees, r
Read MoreBuyers beginning to win the arm wrestle in Sydney’s residential property market
October 31st, 2011Although auction clearance rates in the Sydney property market for October 2011 were broadly in line with previous months this year, there was an unmistakable sense around the auctions and in negotiations that buyers in the $1 million plus bracket we
Read MoreHave Sydney property prices doubled in the past seven to 10 years?
September 30th, 2011
It is often said in property circles that house prices in Australia double every seven to 10 years. Prompted in part by the fact that September 2011 marks the seventh anniversary of a relatively sharp downward correction in Sydney housing prices
Read MoreCoal Seam Gas (CSG) mining and the need for due diligence
August 31st, 2011
For those looking to buy a house in Sydney or an investment property in Sydney, the issue of CSG mining is a further and increasingly high profile example of the regulatory and environmental risks which can be encountered in the Sydney’s ever c
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