Brisbane Apartment

From RP Data CoreLogic: There’s a lot of uncertainty in the property market right now. On the one hand...

On 10 March, the AFR reported that there will be a "very messy end" to the apartment boom.   See AFR story here .  It says: ...

My advice to those considering buying in a high-rise apartment block in Brisbane -- don't buy off the plan and don't buy for two yea...

There have been a number of articles this year regarding an oversupply of apartments in Brisbane, especially new high-rise in areas close to...

From the AFR on Friday, 5 September 2014, p. 17:  "Rising housing prices in Australia require monitoring by regulators but the risk pos...

Interest rates for residential housing are at lifetime record lows.  Banks are awash in cheap cash that they want to lend.  Lending standard...

Four recent articles in the AFR are of interest in relation to the impact of China on Australian property. " Spike in approvals for f...

There is a lot of talk about how well the Sydney property market is doing, and also the property market in general.  But this does not appea...

I was recently looking a property in the LA area of California.  When a house I was looking at was listed for sale, about 20 written offers ...

An interesting recent article in the NY Times about apartments in Toronto: A Dizzying Condo Market in Toronto .  How similar is this to Bris...

From the NZ Herald News . "However, following the significant leveraging of Australian and New Zealand households over the last 30 ye...

" AMP Capital’s head of investment strategy, Shane Oliver, also predicts “a year or two” of house price gains but “not a lot”.   “It’s ...

Information from RP Data

"In conclusion, the data presented should provide more than enough evidence to suggest that Australia’s residential property market (sp...

From the AFR on 17 October, page 43:  A story about property developer and investor, Lang Walker. "I saw that one of the guys from th...

"Mar de Canet’s 308 units were sold in less than 30 days last spring, mostly gobbled up by eager Spaniards finally getting a deal they ...

"The greatest bubble in developed-country cities starts with Brisbane, Australia at 210% followed by 180% in  Miami , 170% in L.A. and ...

" The Brisbane inner-city apartment market is heading into a downswing due to the large numbers of off-the-plan projects currently bein...

There are many negative stories at present about the housing market.  For example, " Gloom Returns to Housing Market " (but is Que...