Brisbane Apartment

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Saturday, April 30, 2011

USA Prices Reverse Again

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From the USA: "PRICES for both homes and commercial real estate are falling again. Meaningful improvement may have to wait until there ...

RP Data - Rismark March Report

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Table 3: Apartment Prices While Australia’s capital city home values were flat in March (-0.2% seasonally adjusted and 0.0% raw), they softe...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Brisbane Not Cataclysmic After Floods

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Brisbane house prices are the lowest of any mainland capital with January's floods and a struggling state economy blamed for a 2 per cen...

Waterfront Newstead

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RESIDENTS of Newstead and surrounding suburbs could be in for 12 years of construction and added traffic as a new waterfront development tak...

China's Ghost Towns

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It is said that there are around 64 million empty apartments in China. Have a look at SBS and BBC and Time . So what will happen to the Au...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Dangers of buying off-the-plan

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" When they returned to the Dolphin Bay Real Estate office, Mr Conolly told Mr and Mrs Brecht about the development which was to be Num...

Morning Money's view

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Morning Money publishes a newsletter encouraging people to buy stocks and gold, and is adverse to investment in real estate in Australia. ...
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Monday, April 25, 2011

This Time is Different

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"The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is simple. It is rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Good Size Two Bedroom Apartments in Brisbane

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I have been asked recently as to which apartment buildings have good sized two bedroom apartments in inner Brisbane. Not including the supe...
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High Rises

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In a post below, I mention that t he May edition of Australian Property Investor had a good story about the oversupply of inner city Melbou...

Does the RBA think there is a bubble in the housing market in Australia?

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Actually, for the past year or two, house prices haven’t done anything much at all. They’re up in some parts of the country, down in others ...

NY Short Term Rentals Law

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Oaks Group should be happy that they don't do business in NY. A recently enacted law prevents short term rentals of apartments. That s...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

One or Two Bedrooms?

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I am often asked by potential property investors is it better, all things being equal, to purchase a one bedroom or two bedroom apartment? ...

Off-the-plan apartment risks

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I have previously written about the risks of purchasing off the plan apartments. See this post for example. Others have also written abou...

Apartment Prices Level with Houses

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Terry Ryder published an opinion piece in The Australian today . Some extracts: "THE planets are falling into alignment for property i...

The Queensland Rental Market

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Extract from REIQ press release: 'Queensland’s residential rental market has absorbed the impacts from this year’s natural disasters how...

Migration to Queensland

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Bernard Salt from KPMG has a very interesting article in The Australian today. It says that interstate migration to Queensland is slowing. ...

Devine and Leightons

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David Devine, who founded the Devine development company, no longer owns part of it. He sold out as part of a legal dispute involving a lon...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Home Loan Volumes Down

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It is reported that home loan volumes are down. This does not bode well for property prices in the next few months.

Economics Blog

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An interesting blog with stories about housing. http://macrobusiness.com.au/

Q1 defects

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See Courier Mail THE developer of the Gold Coast's Q1 supertower is being sued over construction defects that allegedly have left the bu...

Sunshine Coast Troubles

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There was an auction last weekend of a large number apartments in the Crowne Plaza Resort near Caloundra, at Pelican Waters. None sold. S...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Changes to Lot Entitlements for Some Apartments

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After being approved by Queensland Parliament on the 6 April 2011, the Body Corporate and Community Management and Other Legislation Amendme...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Albert Street

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Photo of Albert Street, showing M on Mary and Festival Towers. Note that these buildings will be impacted if and when the small 6 story bui...
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Madison Heights Bowen Hills

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Metro Property Development and Pearls are marketing a 29 level high rise off the plan in Bowen Hills. The development is called Madison Hei...
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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Milton Park

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Extracts from an FKP Press Release: Brisbane City Council’s plan to turn the old Milton Tennis Centre site into parkland is set to benefit s...

Rental Yields

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From an REIQ press release from Friday: "Demand for rental homes in resource-rich regions of Queensland is continuing to drive up resid...

Recent Auctions

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2602/108 Albert St (Festival Towers) - 2 bedrooms - one of the better apartments in the building - withdrawn from auction and now listed at...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Market Cracks

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See this story from Bloomberg: Luxury Home-Price Cracks Emerge for Australia in Gold Coast, Noosa Heads Extract: Apartment prices in the lu...
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