October
Off market sales may be the new way to purchase your next home. Savvy buyers are making connections with their local agent to help them find a property more easily before it comes to the market. There has been an increase in the number of appraisals into the office recently, where owners are selling if […]
July
Eliza Owen 25 May 2020 CoreLogic has released its March Quarter Property Market & Economic Review, Eliza Owen Head of Research Australia provides insights around the state of housing before the onset of COVID-19 as well as an assessment of what is ahead. There are some reasons to be optimistic about Australian property in 2020, […]
March
Not everyone has help from the bank of mum and dad or a six figure salary behind them. So there are cheaper ways how the rest of us can afford a home? 1. Rentvesting It isn’t only wealthy old people that can invest in property, rentvesting allows buyers within all price ranges to purchase a […]
February
There were 2,303 homes taken to auction across the combined capital cities over the week, returning a preliminary auction clearance rate of 54.1 per cent, while last week, auction volumes were lower with 1,450 auctions held and a 51.2 per cent clearance rate. Over the same week last year, 3,313 auctions were held and a […]
January
The number of Chinese buyers of Australian homes is likely to remain steady this year in what’s being seen as a major boost for the weakening domestic property market. Continued wealth growth in China – with dollar-worth per adult having risen four-fold over the past six years – an eye for an Australian bargain, a weak […]
November
You have worked out the price that you want for your property, agreed on the marketing strategy and done everything that you can to present the property in the best possible way. Now the waiting game to find a Buyer begins and it is always thrilling when you receive the news of your first offer. […]
November
BRISBANE’S housing market is on the cusp of turning a corner after years of treading water, with 2019 set to put the Queensland capital “back on the map”. One of the city’s leading property analysts predicts next year will be a “gamechanger” for the residential sector, with rents set to rise, sales volumes to increase […]
August
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August
Who’s right about the property markets — the optimists or the pessimists? The media seems so preoccupied with what’s going wrong in Australia, they’re missing all the things that are going right. The newspapers and online media outlets continually deliver house price collapse headlines, probably because it gets clicks, but our property markets are not collapsing and our […]
August
New research from property data firm CoreLogic has indicated that Brisbane is leading the nation on most property performance indicators, but some experts are curbing talk of a imminent property boom in the Sunshine State. According to the CoreLogic Daily Home Value Index, Brisbane recorded a 1.2 per cent increase in the median house price […]
August
GENERATION Y will drive a “decade-long boom” in demand for houses in and around Brisbane as they ditch renting in favour of the Great Australian Dream, a leading economic forecaster predicts. Changes to the age profile of the population over the next 10 years are likely to produce a shift in the type of demand […]
August
DOWNSIZING? That’s so 2017. Now is the time to step up the southeast Queensland property ladder and get that bigger and better home you’ve always wanted. THEY are the “upsizers” — an emerging market of aspirational home hunters with growing families, healthy bank balances and big dreams for the future. And property experts are […]
June
House values in Sydney and some parts of Melbourne are expected to decline while values in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, and Hobart are expected to see further growth. Values in Perth remain mixed, although some recovery is at hand in certain markets. House prices are expected to significantly diverge across Australia through the remainder of the […]
June
Capital City Auction Statistics (preliminary) Auction volumes increased significantly over the week with 1,991 homes taken to auction across the combined capital cities, up from just 904 last week when auction volumes were lower due to the Queen’s Birthday long weekend. The preliminary clearance rate was recorded at 56.9 per cent this week, after last […]
May
OLDER ‘six-pack’ apartment blocks have become the hardest market to crack in Brisbane amid a surge in demand from buyers looking to ‘bulk buy’ fixer-uppers. The humble ‘six-pack’ apartment block — and the individual units in them — are so prized among those who own them, they rarely come up for sale. But when they […]
April
CONFIDENCE has hit record levels in the property sector, with Queensland at its highest level since the mining boom, the latest industry survey has found. The ANZ/Property Council Survey said there was growing confidence in Queensland amid positive expectations of economic growth in the state led by infrastructure projects such as the Cross River Rail. […]
April
THERE has been a surge in properties hitting the market in Brisbane, as homeowners head for the exit in a bit to take profits. The number of homes for sale in Brisbane rose 6.9 per cent to 31,619 in March, according to the latest figures from SQM Research. That’s more than the national average, with […]
March
The share of residential property sales over $1 million continued to climb in 2017 across most of the capitals. With dwelling values now falling, what will 2018 bring for sales of $1 million properties? Over the 12 months to December 2017, 16.1% of all houses and 9.5% of all units sold nationally transacted with a […]
February
Although dwelling values have started falling in Sydney, the city remains substantially more expensive than the other capital cities. In fact, whether you look at the cost of houses or the cost of units, Sydney stands out as being much more expensive. The above table clearly highlights how the cost of a house is […]
January
Property information and analytical authority CoreLogic Australia has released its first Property Flipping Report from the end of 2017 revealing that nine in ten flipped properties in Australia earn a profit. The report explains the short term residential property investment strategy of ‘flipping’ with: “a buyer purchases a home with the intent of re-selling the […]
