Brisbane Apartment

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Friday, February 27, 2009

Warning from NZ

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"Sunshine Coast Remax real estate agent Michael Knights said the local housing market had dropped between 10% and 20% in the last 12 mo...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

Water Leak in Skyline Apartments

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I have never been a fan of Skyline apartments in Brisbane. They were marketed as river front, when they are not. The apartments are genera...

Roma Street Parklands Sale

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A recent Brisbane apartment auction: 7041/7 Parkland Boulevard, Brisbane 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 car parks In 2006, it was listed for sal...
Friday, February 20, 2009

Disputes over Body Corporate Fees

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Many buildings are changing the way body corporate fees are allocated amougst unit owners, causing disputes when penthouse apartments end up...

Oaks Ok

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"Mr Pointon said occupancy rates in Oaks's regional properties during January were 80-90 per cent and while its Sydney properties r...

Low Demand for Prestige Homes

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"The old belief that because of scarcity these properties would not fall much in this market, while more common housing stock would hav...
Saturday, February 7, 2009

Parklands at Sherwood Completes

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Stage One at Pradella's Parkland at Sherwood is now complete. There appear to be some good buys, including a large one bedroom for les...
Friday, February 6, 2009

No Sunshine for the Coast

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"Among the states, hardest hit appears to be Queensland, where 4000 new apartments are going begging: 1000 on the Sunshi...

Raptis Goes Bust

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Gold Coast and Brisbane developer, Raptis, went into administration today. Also, the developer's $700 million Hilton Hotel redevelopme...
Saturday, January 31, 2009

Brisbane Rentals

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It is rental season in Brisbane, and there is strong competition for apartments. Many people are delaying a buying decision, and so are ren...

Lawsuit Against Council over Brisbane Apartment Rates

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BRISBANE unit owners have launched a Supreme Court challenge against the validity of the Brisbane City Council's rating parity factor sc...

despite the reported gloom

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"After an eventful year’s end, it’s difficult to see where residential property is heading into the new annum. Media reports daily on ...

Apartment Prices Dip

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See Brisbane Times Brisbane experienced a mixed December quarter, with house prices rising 3.3 per cent and units backtracking 3.5 per cent...

More Rental Properties

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"The number of available rental properties in Brisbane will increase this year as investors struggle to offload their real estate asset...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Property Game

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A new property price guessing game, which is fun to play:   www.propertyiq.com.au

Property Promoter's Opinion

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" Depending where you live, property values in your state would have grown a few percent or dropped a few percent overall. Of course we...

Rentals In Brisbane

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It is rental season in Brisbane, and there is strong competition for apartments.  Many people are delaying a buying decision, and so are ren...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

SL8 Opinion part two

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I drove past SL8 today in West End. I was not impressed. Although still under construction, to me it looks like a cheap motel from the 19...
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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Riparian Plaza Resales

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"BRISBANE: Unit prices in an an exclusive city residential tower continue to soar in the face of economic crisis, and cashed-up investo...

Tennis Anyone?

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Mirvac's Tennyson Reach project sold extremely well to start, but sales appear to have stalled. There are six apartment buildings plan...

New Top End Mooloolaba Apartment Building

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Signature 87 by Juniper. Prices said to range from $5.98 million to $6.995 million. So the top end can't be too bad if Juniper releas...
Friday, January 16, 2009

Top End Not So Top?

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"Brisbane's prestige property market will 'languish' this year as former corporate high-flyers rein in their spending, acco...

Brisbane Apartment Hotspots

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"National Property Research managing director Matthew Gross said the area surrounding Sherwood in Brisbane's west will also be a fu...

Shoe Box Apartments

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"Property analyst Michael Matusik believes there is a large segment of the real-estate market who would prefer to live in a compact uni...

Vultures Turned Away

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Re/Max Integrity principal Nerina Sportelli said: “We have buyers ringing up and asking about the sellers. Are they bankrupt? Do they need t...

Market Wrap

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Market Wrap from Residex " Saying we have passed the worst is a brave call in an environment where the world economy is in such a poor ...

Construction Costs

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An interesting presentation regarding construction costs, including pipeline of developments, is located at: www.mitbrand.com.au/
Sunday, January 11, 2009

Prediction from RP Data

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" 2009 may also finally see the return of investors to the market. With 2008 seeing little to no value growth and rents continuing to r...

Poms Moving to Oz

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See article in The London Times .

SL8 Update

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"With more than 90% of the 1, 2 & 3 bedroom apartments sold, limited opportunities remain to invest in SL8’s West End apartments. T...
Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Hamilton Harbour Website

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Devine has new content on its Hamilton Harbour website, www.hamiltonharbour.com.au "1, 2 & 3 bedroom apartments $295,000 to $1.59M ...

River City Apartments Fire

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Queensland fire fighters say overhead sprinklers saved an inner-Brisbane apartment block from serious damage. More than 30 residents were e...

Gold Coast Apartments in Trouble

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"The unit market on the Gold Coast is investor driven. There s currently a good selection of high-rise units available for sale in Broa...
Sunday, January 4, 2009

Stockland Residential Outlook December 2008

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Stockland reports that: The top end of the residential market is very soft.  Very fragile, and oversupply issues. First home owner segment s...

The Mill at Albion

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The AFR reported that sales at FKP's The Mill project at Albion were strong, with 120 out of 132 apartments sold, at an average of $6500...

Stockland and FKP

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"FKP intends to continue  discussions with Stockland, to ascertain whether a transaction in the best interests of FKP securityholders c...

Insignificant Price Decease in Brisbane for Apartments

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See RP Data Rismark Indices released at the end of December. Brisbane Apartment prices decreased by 1.25% for October quarter and deceased ...

Gold Coast

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From  The Australian " THE boom in beachfront real estate on the Gold Coast is well and truly over..."

Article About United States Housing Bubble

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Extract: "I'm ending my discussion of this issue in 2004, but throughout the years since, a number of analysts have emerged on both...
Sunday, December 28, 2008

Fortitude Valley

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"On the unit front, Wooloowin, Annerley, Moorooka and Camp Hill all priced under $350,000, are tipped to give good returns next year...

Predictions for 2009

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At the beginning of 2008, I made a number of predictions in this post . The predictions were mostly wrong! The Brisbane apartment market did...

Meriton's 43 Herschel Street

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Here is a floor layout, as submitted to council by Meriton. It shows 10 apartments per floor, with a mix of studios, 1 beds and one 2 bedro...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

Stockland Downgrades Residential Portfolio by $105M

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"He said two factors in the past two months had prompted the downgrade of its residential inventory. He said there had been a "mas...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

West End Overpriced?

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What would you pay for a new 2 bedroom apartment at the southern end of West End, with nice views of a factory roof, surrounded by industria...

Rate Increases For Brisbane Apartments

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"A ceiling on rate increases for Brisbane's CBD unit owners under Brisbane City Council's controversial new rates policy will b...
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