Showing posts with label brisbane video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brisbane video. Show all posts

Friday, August 29, 2014

Boom to Bust

I'm watching Australian property: Boom to Bust on  http://www.afr.com/videos/business/australian-property-boom-to-bust-xjbwt3bzqu973akn8pmyigimgj7hl7ql.html via @FinancialReview

Friday, September 30, 2011

Show Ground Hill video

Lend Lease has released a concept video for its Showground Hill development.  It shows lots of happy people doing wonderful things at places other than Showground Hill, because Showground Hill has not been built yet.  See video for some laughs.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Real Estate Marketing Videos

I like the fact that some agents use YouTube videos to market their properties. Here are some examples:

Quay West, Alice Street, 2 bedrooms

Ciana, 2 bedrooms

Ciana, 2 bedroom listed at $530,000:



Saturday, September 20, 2008

Promenade Building at Multiplex's Portside

Multiplex have started to sell the fourth building in the Portside development at Hamilton Shipping Terminal. This building is named Promenade. Here is a video.

Promenade is being marketed as waterfront, but the building is not waterfront. It is behind other buildings. (In addition, the firth building, Hamilton Waterfront Residences which is the same height, will be built in front of Promenade. HWR will have "absolute waterfront" apartments with an average price of $1.6M.)

Promenade has apartments from level 4 to level 15. There are a mix of 1, 2 and 3 bed apartments. There are two levels of quality -- the lower levels are not as good quality as the higher levels. For example, the lower levels are not fully airconditoned - there is a wall mounted unit in the living room only. The cupboards are laminate. On the lower levels, the quality of finishes are lower, and in my opinion by today's standards, quite poor.

There are 144 apartments, and according to documents dated 19 September 2008, 45 apartments have sold. Most of the apartments that sold are on levels 6 and 7 (which are the 3rd and 4th levels of apartments). Only 8 apartments have been sold on the top six levels. The most expensive is $1,650,000. The cheapest is a 1 bed with no car for $385,000.

Here are some sample prices (noting that the first level of apartments is level 4):

Level 5, Apartment P014, 2 bed, 2 bath, 1 car, 90 sqm internal, 24 sqm balcony, 114 sqm total, plaza views = $669,000

Level 8, Apartment P033, 2 bed, 2 bath, 1 car, 95 sqm internal, 29 sqm balcony, 124 sqm total, river views = $719,000

Level 12, Apartment P141 (illustrated above), 2 bed, 2 bath, 1 car, 92 sqm internal, 18 sqm balcony, 110 sqm total, river views = $960,000

Level 12, Apartment P142, 2 bed, 2 bath, 1 car, 93 sqm internal, 17 sqm balcony, 110 sqm total, Hamilton views = $790,000

Level 14, Apartment P068, 2 bed plus study, 2 bath, 1 car, 103 sqm internal, 26 sqm balcony, 129 sqm total, north view = $990,000

The rentals estimates given out at the display say that the rentals estimated for Promenades for two bedroom apartments is $520 to $600 per week, or up to $675 per week if there is a study. This is not a great return for the prices listed above.

Some other figures in the Multiplex brochure:

Capital growth for units in Hamilton in 07/08 was negative 5.9% (for Brisbane City it was 13.5%).
Medium sales price for units in Hamilton in August 07 was $645,000, in March 08 it had dropped to $438,000. In the corresponding period, Brisbane City medium sales price for units had risen by $30,000.

What concerns me about this building is that it is not absolute waterfront, more than half the apartments do not have river views, the quality of finishes on the lower floors are poor (thus attracting cheaper rents and pulling down building values), and the building will eventually be surrounded by other buildings on all sides. Those apartments with river views have obstruction and roof views of other buildings. The price per sqm is high, for example $8727 for a 2 bed on a higher floor. As far as I can tell, this building does not have a pool or gym.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Brisbane Videos

These interesting videos show future developments for Brisbane. So take care when buying -- some existing buildings will loose their views; and there will be a huge influx of apartments into Brisbane in the future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmGWIbOYZmU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l687g1Ub5qM&feature=related

Trilogy Tower

Wickham Terrace & Turbot Street (Central Station)

Vision

Tennyson Reach

NorthBridge (office development, which will block some views from Evolution)

Brisbane Now, from PleaseTakeMeTo.com