Brisbane Apartment

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Values Steady, but Headwinds Loom: RP Data

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" Dwelling values were up a modest 0.3% in seasonally-adjusted terms during October. Yet the November rate rise, bank top-ups, declinin...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Why Are Colliers Optimistic?

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In The Australian this week, a story about the Colliers Real Estate Agents Brisbane Apartment Report: "Its Brisbane apartment repor...

Checklists

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See www.mystratamanagement.com.au for an apartment buyer's guide and building checklist.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Trying to Get Out of an Off-the-plan Contract

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Here is a decision regarding an investor trying to get out of two off-the-plan contracts for apartments in The Oracle at Broadbeach. The ju...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

Felix Auction

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It is always good to see what happens at normal auctions. An apartment in Felix, 307/26 Felix Street, went to auction today. See listing ....

"Chinese love the Sunshine State"

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Story from the AFR on Friday last week -- "Chinese love the Sunshine State". The article states: "Half a dozen significant ...

Gold Coast Collapsing

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Story from the AFR on Friday last week - "Banks judge Gold Coast apartments as vulnerable". "Westpac Banking Corp has a parti...

Riverpoint Auction - No Result

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A new Riverpoint apartment at West End failed to sell at a high profile Ray White auction. The highest bid was $3.5M . This is less than $...
Saturday, November 13, 2010

Rental Returns - from RP Data Property Pulse

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"... During the five years to September 2010, the Australian residential property market has experienced a variety of conditions, modes...

Pet Friendly Apartments

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A resident of an apartment recently filed a dispute resolution request to an Adjudicator within the Body Corporate Commissioners Office in B...

SouthPoint Coming Soon?

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Will the SouthPoint apartment and hotel development at SouthBank ever get started? Reported to start later this year . (But they have sai...

Fairfax is Getting Dumber

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> Recently, the Domain property website had an offer -- Saturday's Sydney Morning Herald and the Sunday newspaper delivered in hardco...

Will Mosaic Go Ahead?

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ONE of Australia's biggest developers has continued to sell units in a proposed $150 million Brisbane tower even though city planners ha...

Albert Street Railway

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Royal on the Park (the old Park Royal Hotel) owned by the Sultan of Brunei is to be resumed to build an underground train station. How will...
Sunday, November 7, 2010

Spring Hill - Trilogy Apartments

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There were 3 auctions last weekend of 2 bedroom apartments in the Trilogy complex at Spring Hill (namely, apartments 226, 330 and 334) This ...

Apartments or Hotels

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"... Mr Punch alleged in his statement of claim that the original disclosure statement received from Niecon subsidiary South Sky Invest...

Flats Are Flat

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There are head-winds for investors in the Brisbane apartment market: slowing population growth foreign investors selling, because they profi...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

Risks With Short Term Rental Buildings

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When I am looking to buy an apartment in Brisbane, I look at Trip Advisor to see if there are reviews about the apartment building and the o...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

Pricing Trends

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"... A ustralia’s housing market has flat-lined in the second half of 2010. The monthly RP Data-Rismark Hedonic Home Value Index was th...
Friday, October 29, 2010

At 20 At Kangaroo Point - New Development

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New apartment development at Kangaroo Point. It will be twenty storeys. One bedrooms from $340,000; two bedrooms from $490,000. See At 20...

New Farm Apartments

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The AFR had an article last Friday about New Farm, titled "Grunge to groovy", that says: "... Back from the river are art dec...

Real Estate Agent Tricks

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Have you heard about these two tricks from real estate agents? One is listing a property for sale by forthcoming auction, but never actually...

Opinions Regarding Brisbane Property

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Here is a good set of articles from Michael Matusik, regarding Brisbane property: Opinions
Saturday, October 23, 2010

Undervalued Brisbane apartments

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The Courier Mail had an article today that suggested that over reliance on property databases by real estate agents is leading to pricing di...

Apartment Auctions in Brisbane

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Newspaper reports and auction clearance statistics show that less than half the properties that are for sale by auction do not sell at aucti...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Good Advice from Matusik

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This is from Matusik's email this week. It is worth subscribing to his newsletter Matusik Missive – A new paradigm? 20 th October 201...
Saturday, October 9, 2010

Brisbane Skyline

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A great photo of the Brisbane skyline from Jesse on Skyscraper City . You can see (from the left) Waterfront Place, Felix, the back of Rive...
Friday, October 8, 2010

Empire Square To Be Reborn

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According to the AFR, Grocon (owned by the Grollo family in Melbourne) is in due diligence to buy the Empire Square site and also the Trilog...

El Dorado Indooroopilly Delayed?

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It appears that PCN' s project on the El Dorado at Indooroopilly has yet again been delayed. On the second or third attempt, it was d...

Properties

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RP Data September Report

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In August the seasonally-adjusted RP Data-Rismark Capital City Home Value Index fell by 0.2 per cent. On a non-seasonally adjusted basis the...

Investment Apartment

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“Four out of five investors reside in a detached home, yet just half buy a detached house as an investment. Investors seem to like apartment...

Reserve Bank's View

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Deputy Governor Ric Battelino of the Reserve Bank of Australia is optimistic that there would be turnaround in the property and real estate...

Rents in 2010

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From RP Data September Quarter 2o10 Rental Review " Over the last five years the weekly rent on a unit both nationally and within the c...

Yardney's Advice

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"... I foresee generally flat property prices over the next few months – possibly well into next year. But I also see some great opport...
Saturday, October 2, 2010

Bowen Hills

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There will be a large number of new apartment projects in Bowen Hills. This area is close to the city and the Royal Brisbane Hospital, but ...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

How To Lose Money in Property Investing

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Here is an interesting article, that discusses the risks of buying off-the-plan. " Three surefire ways to lose money in property "
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