Buyers beginning to win the arm wrestle in Sydney’s residential property market
October 31st, 2011
Although 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 bracke
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
Read MoreThe 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 More
