| | Money talks: Banks offering cash to entice customers
Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Banks are increasingly offering borrowers cold hard cash in an attempt to sign them up as mortgage customers.
As lenders jostle to expand their share of the home loan market, all big four banks are ...
| Locals priced out by $24b Chinese property splurge
Wednesday, 5 March 2014
‘‘A generation of Australians are being priced out of the property market. Many face a life time of renting,’’ Credit Suisse analysts Hasan Tevfik and Damien Boey said.
Wealthy Chinese buyers...
| Investors strong in NSW, but not elsewhere
Thursday, 9 May 2013
This week's surprise decision by the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates will fuel investor interest in residential property.
Australians are passionate about investing in bricks and mortar and the c...
| Big banks in little hurry to pass on rate cut
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
The big four banks will pass along most of the Reserve Bank's rate cut to mortgage holders, analysts believe - but the wait may drag on until next week.
The major banks took an average of 10.6 days...
| Public housing high-rises keep prices down
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
The inner-city set may claim there is no stigma attached to living near public housing but property prices expose a more tawdry truth.
The closer you live to public housing estates such as Richmon...
| Sydney house prices on the rise, data shows
Friday, 3 August 2012
Sydney homeowners preparing for spring sales campaigns have been given some encouraging news with three sets of data now showing price growth.
Independent analysts RP Data-Rismark today released its ...
| Brisbane booming in the middle and round the edges
Friday, 3 August 2012
Brisbane is the place to be, but people aren't living where you may think, new population figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveal.
The data, which captures a decade of change to 2011,...
| Auctions indicate it's still a buyers' environment
Friday, 3 August 2012
With more than a month behind us since the auction season opened up again, it is worth taking a snapshot of the market by looking at how the auction clearance rates have been performing, plus consider...
| ACT named as hot investment spot
Friday, 3 August 2012
Two ACT suburbs have been named in the top investment areas across NSW and the territory by McGrath Estate Agents.
In his autumn market review, McGrath real estate chief executive John McGrath listed...
| Housing market steady despite the dark clouds
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
The weekend's damp weather made for some challenging auctions held among crowds of umbrellas and pouring rain but another clearance rate above the 60 per cent mark delivered relief to agents and ...
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SuperUser posted on October 25, 2009 20:10  MELBOURNE'S median house price has hit a record $480,000 to surpass the heights of the 2007 property boom. But demand for Melbourne real estate faces its biggest test since early last year, with more than 1000 homes listed for auction this weekend. [Read the rest of this article...] SuperUser posted on October 25, 2009 20:10 MELBOURNE'S auction market has posted its strongest performance in years, with the clearance rate and prices soaring, heightening fears the Reserve Bank will push the key official interest rate sharply higher on Melbourne Cup Day. [Read the rest of this article...] SuperUser posted on October 15, 2009 18:33 House prices may surge about 20 per cent or more in some of Australia's largest cities over the next three years, driven higher by on-going shortages. Adelaide - previously considered among the more affordable cities - may lead the advances, with prices likely to be 23 per cent higher by June 2012 from a base of June 2009, according to the QBE LMI Housing Outlook. [Read the rest of this article...] SuperUser posted on October 15, 2009 18:33  Brisbane house prices are set to rise by 15 percent over the next three years but annual wage growth will fail to keep pace, new forecasts show. [Read the rest of this article...] SuperUser posted on October 15, 2009 18:33  International investors, local "smart money" and the aspirational classes are combining to create a mini property boom in Perth's western suburbs, industry sources say. [Read the rest of this article...] SuperUser posted on October 15, 2009 18:33 Tenants in St Lucia, Breakfast Creek, Fairfield and Stones Corner have the best rental deal in Brisbane's inner city, with the relative flattening of the rental market, new data shows. [Read the rest of this article...] SuperUser posted on September 27, 2009 13:43 HOME buyers should brace themselves for intense competition and price rises as Melbourne heads into its strongest spring property market since the 2007 boom, industry experts say. [Read the rest of this article...] SuperUser posted on September 18, 2009 20:06 The nation's most expensive houses are in Perth, with the coastal municipality of Cottesloe trumping inner-Sydney's Mosman in a ranking of municipal median prices. A report by RP Data has found Cottesloe's median house price is $2 million, ahead of Mosman's $1.92 million. [Read the rest of this article...] SuperUser posted on September 18, 2009 20:02 The scaling back of the first-home owners' grant will significantly impact prices at the lower end of the market, a survey predicts. But Sydney and Melbourne residential property markets on the whole are on the road to recovery with the upturn expected to continue through to 2011, the survey respondents believe. [Read the rest of this article...] SuperUser posted on July 30, 2009 18:38 National house prices have risen further in the June quarter, with a recovery at the higher end of the market matching strength at the bottom end. House prices gained 3.3 per cent in the June quarter, the strongest quarterly growth since the global financial crisis began withering asset values, Australian Property Monitors said overnight. [Read the rest of this article...] | | |
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