Brisbane Apartment

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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Buy in the Bust?

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" Mr. Sternlicht hopes to foreclose on many of Corus’s errant borrowers, restyle their buildings and sell units for a significant profi...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

Offsite Letting Agents

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In a prior post , I warned against dealing with unlicensed or unusual offsite letting agents for holiday rentals. Recently, Accommodation O...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Recent Sales

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MacArthur Chambers - 2 beds, 2 bath, Apt 609, 229 Queen Street, sold for $790,000 and now listed for rent at $730 per week furnished. Auror...

Property Investor Information

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Two sites with useful information for property investors: negativegearedinvestmentproperty.com.au My Tax Zone

Devine Hamilton

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The Australian Financial Review included an advertisement last week stating that Devine had received construction finance for Hamilton Harb...
Saturday, May 15, 2010

Vue Apartments

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The Vue Apartment complex on Coronation Drive has been impacted by its bad location and road construction activity. There is construction ...

Ray White Auction Results

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Last Sunday, Ray White had a large scale auction at a Valley hotel, called an Urban Living Auction. There were a number of unique and prest...
Sunday, May 9, 2010

Skyline

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My favourite floorplan in Skyline (30 Macrossan Street) is the G2 floorplan. It is a 3 bed apartment, and most have 2 carparks. There is ...

Lateline Story on Building Approvals

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See Lateline

Recent Apartment Sales in Brisbane City

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Casino Towers (151 George Street) Apt 1205, 1 bed, 1 bath , no car - sold for $350,000 Apt 1902, 2 bed, 2 bath , 1 car, river views - sold f...
Saturday, May 8, 2010

Edenview at Kelvin Grove

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Edenview Apartments at Kelvin Grove are currently being marketed by a number of agents. Due for completion in mid-2011, this complex inclu...

The Studio, St Lucia

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The Studio student apartment complex, "sold out" in less than a week just recently. About one third of the apartments were sold,...

Ferry Road, West End

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On Wednesday, 5 May 2010, the Australian Financial Review had an advertisement of page 7 for 51 Ferry Road, West End . Jones Lang LaSalle i...
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Riverbend Indooroopilly

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Riverbend Towers in Indooroopilly are back on the market. They were offered for sale about 2 years ago, but then the developer decided not...

Real Estate Marketing Videos

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I like the fact that some agents use YouTube videos to market their properties. Here are some examples: Quay West , Alice Street, 2 bedroom...

High Density Liveability Guide

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A QUT academic has published a high density liveability guide. See www.highdensityliveability.org.au
Thursday, May 6, 2010

Alderley Square Update

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" Alderley Square is a village-style, mixed-use community inspired development set to reinvigorate the heart of one of Brisbane's ...
Wednesday, May 5, 2010

103 Mary Street

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A proposed new apartment at 103 Mary Street , between the Vision hole and River City. It will impact the views of River City and 212 Margar...
Monday, May 3, 2010

Beware of unlicensed offsite operators

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The results of the recent Circle on Cavill lawsuit is a warning both to renters and apartment owners who use unlicensed offsite operators. T...

Oaks Fined for Car Park Leasing

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A newspaper reports that the Council fined Oaks $25,000 for renting our carparks to non residents, in breach of development conditions. ...

M on Mary

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M on Mary advertises itself as a hotel. It is not -- it is a poorly designed apartment building with a large number of 1 bedroom apartment...

Bad Onsite Agent

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Office of Fair Trading - Minister's Statement : 10 year ban for real estate employee An investigation by the Office of Fair Trading has ...

Talking Up the Top End

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"Publicly listed property company Mirvac has also started the decade on a positive note, selling $30 million worth of $1 million-plus a...
Sunday, May 2, 2010

Tax Reform and Property

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The Henry Tax Review was released at 2.30pm today. It was expected to have an impact on property investment, but it appears that the impact...

Flood Maps

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It is interesting to look at flood maps of Brisbane. You can see, for example, that SL8 is in a flood zone. Newstead River Park is an o...

Better buying a recent apartment, than off-plan?

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" “There are so many disasters out there,” said Lawrence Rich, a vice president of Prudential Douglas Elliman. “Every day you hear of a...
Saturday, May 1, 2010

March 2010 Index Data

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The RP Data – Rismark March Hedonic Home Value Index results released yesterday reveals that home values in Australia’s capital cities rose ...

Annual Rate of Return - Felix and Admiralty Two

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Lot P-Price P-Date Sell Price Sell Date A RoR Admiralty Two ...
Monday, April 19, 2010

SouthPoint at South Bank

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"A premium central city location opposite the CBD Southbank is Brisbanes premier recreation and dining precinct, Southpoint is the last...

Extract from Recent Matusik Email

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Australian Property Monitors (APM) – a fully owned subsidiary of Fairfax Media – last month published a study which outlined what houses acr...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

Flat Market in Brisbane

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In talking with people in the real estate industry in Brisbane recently, it seems to me that the market is relatively flat. At some open ho...
Saturday, April 10, 2010

Mirvac's Park

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The public release of Mirvac's Park is taking place today -- the same day that 3 apartments at Mirvac's Tennyson Reach are being au...
Sunday, April 4, 2010

Talking Up A Dead Market on the Gold Coast

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Real estate agents are always the optimists. Take this story in the April 3, 2010 Courier Mail (a newspaper that relies on real estate agen...
Saturday, April 3, 2010

Brisbane Up Only Slightly

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Brisbane housing prices up 0.4% in February quarter. See RP Data information and Joye's blog

Brisbane Prices

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"It's not only the sun that is expected to shine on Queensland this year; property prices are tipped to really begin moving. The ec...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Apartments for Sale in Brisbane

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I looked at RealEstate.com.au to see what good apartments are for sale at present. These are quality apartments, in my view, and are relati...

Promised Infrastructure

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I often visit off-the-plan sales offices for apartment projects, and I am often told about planned infrastructure. A new pedestrian bridge,...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Wave or Montague West End

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Some more details about Wave West End which may have been renamed Montague . See Development website. It is located behind Stockland's...

Keen Walk

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Keen got his prediction wrong, and is now about to walk. See keenwalk.com.au and blog See also Chris Joye

Mosaic The Valley

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When I look earlier this week, Mosaic The Valley had not yet received Development Approval from the Council. Also, from what the agents ar...

Mirvac's Waterfront - New "Park" release

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Mirvac has started its pre-release sales campaign for the Park building at its Waterfront development in Newstead. From the materials I ha...
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