The July 2011 Sydney property market gets off to a steady start in fiscal 2012
July 31st, 2011
With a lot happening in the lead up to the imminent launch of the new Curtis Associates web site, this month’s CurtiseCall is a little shorter than usual.The Sydney property market trends discussed in CurtiseCall June 2011 continued this mo
Read MoreFinancial year end wrap and what does fiscal 2012 hold for the Sydney property market?
June 30th, 2011
You did not have to look much further than the June 2011 Sydney real estate market for continuing evidence of a two speed economy right here in our back yard.This was a month of conflicting economic data. For instance:while many Sydney r
Read MoreSydney property prices – trends 2011. Is there a change coming at the top end?
June 8th, 2011Towards the end of May 2011, the $2 million to $3 million bracket of the Sydney property market departed from the trends above $2 million discussed in CurtiseCall February 2011.This shift may signal an end to the confidence depleted mood which has in
Read MoreLight rail is the next big thing for inner Sydney property prices – a tall tale or true?
April 30th, 2011
In addition to being at the heart of the newly elected State Government’s election pledges to fix Sydney’s long standing public transportation problems, Sydney’s existing and proposed light rail systems are seen by some watchers of the Sydn
Read MoreBargains found in the March 2011 Sydney residential property market
March 31st, 2011
The Sydney property market this month was one interrupted by a change of State Government on 26 March 2011 and influenced by the natural disasters in Queensland and Japan. In a mood reminiscent of the uncertainty induced by the GFC, other buyers
Read MoreThe February 2011 Sydney property market – “…in no rush to buy”
February 28th, 2011
Despite the re - opening of the Sydney property market this year coinciding with tragic and de-stabilizing natural disasters in Queensland, Victoria and more recently, in New Zealand, some trends are already emerging:An unprecedented volume o
Read MoreSydney property market wrap for 2010 and predictions for 2011
December 17th, 2010
In the last six weeks of the real estate calendar year and with the Federal election finally out of the way, the number of residential properties advertised for sale in the Sydney property market rose to levels unseen since the 2008 global financ
Read MoreOctober 2010 Sydney property prices – behind auction clearance rates lies a two speed housing market between $1 million and $2 million
October 30th, 2010
While auction clearance rates have definitely fallen this month relative to the levels experienced at the same time last year, the devil is in the detail underlying the published statistics. In an attempt to reconcile mainstream media reports wh
Read MoreFitch’s gives Australian house market a tick
October 15th, 2010In a study much anticipated by some housing bubble doomsayers but which reinforces the views expressed in CurtiseCall August 2010, preliminary calculations just released by credit agency Fitch Ratings suggest that local banks would be able to withsta
Read MoreIs Sydney’s property market in bubble territory? Lessons from September 2007 and the unimportance of interest rates
October 8th, 2010
Driven by sustained auction clearance rates in September 2013 over 80%, property chatter this month has largely and again been about the existence or otherwise of a bubble forming in Sydney's property market.We thought we would approach the t
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