Saturday, June 1, 2013
Car Spaces
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Brisbane Downtown Ghost town
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Comparing Different Apartments
Monday, July 16, 2012
Brisbane City Census Data
For Brisbane City downtown area, in 2011, here is some interesting data (full results here):
- population - 7,888 people
- median age - 29
- Most people are in the 25 to 29 age group (22% of the population)
- 1,526 families
- 32% married
- 37% have University qualifications (compared with 13.5% for Qld or 14.35 for Australia as a whole).
- 4,516 dwellings in total (of which, 98.7% are apartments)
- Average of 2 people per household
- 50.9% of dwellings had 2 bedrooms
- Median weekly household income - $1,828
- 54.5% of dwellings are rented
- Median rent - $530 per week
- 0.8 cars per dwelling
- Ancestry: "The most common ancestries in Brisbane City (State Suburbs) were English 18.0%, Australian 11.3%, Chinese 9.8%, Irish 7.0% and Korean 5.8%."
- Country of birth: "In Brisbane City (State Suburbs), 33.3% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were Korea, Republic of (South) 6.6%, England 4.4%, China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) 3.9%, Taiwan 3.3% and New Zealand 2.5%."
- 63.5% had both parents born outside of Australia
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Car Space
"Looking at going rates for Brisbane
Budget on spending big if you plan using the Riverside Centre’s car park, situated in the heart of the financial, business and Riverside fine-dining precinct – at $21 for up to 30 minutes, it’s the most expensive place to park short-term in Brisbane’s
As public transport fares also continue to skyrocket, leasing a
Monday, May 3, 2010
Oaks Fined for Car Park Leasing
Brisbane City Council has fined The Oaks Group for unlawfully leasing residential carparks to commuters after an investigation which City News understands lasted several months.
According to its website, The Oaks Group arranges short-term bookings for eight unit blocks in the CBD. Car parking spaces meant for long-term residents have instead been leased to inner-city workers for up to $5000 a year. Councillor David Hinchliffe (Central) welcomed the penalty and said he believed the practice was widespread and was “potentially just the tip of the iceberg”.
He said he believed senior managers in both the private and public sectors had paid for carparks made available in contravention of the Council’s planning approvals. “If you’re operating a commercial carpark, then you need to be zoned and approved for a commercial carpark,” he said. “One carparking space can generate easily around $5000 a year in revenue for the company, 200 car spaces are worth $1 million in revenue.
“My understanding is that apartments are being rented out without carparks so that the company can lease out the carparks separately to commuters, encouraging more people to drive to work and park and adding to congestion.”
Brisbane City Council failed to answer several questions about the practice before City News’ deadline. When contacted for comment, an Oaks spokeswoman replied: “We are not at liberty to respond to that matter.”
Monday, December 1, 2008
Value of Brisbane Car Park?
FindACarPark is a good site to look at to see the rental value of a car park in Brisbane - seems to be about $400 to $500 per month to rent. When I looked, no car park was listed for sale in Brisbane.
See also this site.