Brisbane Apartment

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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

RP Data Home Value Index Released Today

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Based on approximately 178,000 home sales over the year to July, the market-leading RP Data-Rismark Hedonic Home Value Index recorded a seas...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

From RP Data

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"Australians are choosing to own their homes for longer with the average time frame between house sales increasing from 6.8 years 10 ye...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

House Price Crash

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This is a good article on property investment, and points out some of the risks of off-the-plan purchases and dealing with developers. Ho...

Rent apartment for "free" lottery scheme

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Have a look at Keys to Brisbane, where a Brisbane apartment owner has a competition or lottery to win the apartment rent free for a year. ...

Wall Street Journal Report on Australia Housing

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"Locally, buyers have already started to wane. In the last year, there were 90,210 first-home buyers across Australia, 35% lower than t...

Oversupply of Apartments in Brisbane, especially Hamilton and Albion

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THE number of apartments planned for Brisbane's inner north is the biggest threat to the success of the city's apartment market. ...

Brisbane property market "reasonably depressed"

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"RP Data research director Tim Lawless does not expect a big pick-up in the number of properties being offered for sale. His figures s...

Devine's Brisbane City and Teneriffe Plans

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Devine reports that it has secured the opportunity to build a 107 apartment project in Teneriffe, launching in the first half of 2012. ...

Devine's Hamilton Harbour

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Devine reports to the Australian Stock Exchange, as at 25 August 2011, the following in relation to its Hamilton Harbour apartment developm...

Sunland's Brisbane Development

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Sunland reports that it was holding discussions with Cbus Property about a joint venture for $250 million Carrington Tower on Alice Street (...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Southpoint at South Bank

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The Australian Financial Review had an article yesterday about developer Anthony Jones Group. Most of the story was about the Emporium Hote...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

REIQ Press Release

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Queensland’s residential property market has regained some of the ground it lost following the natural disasters earlier this year, accordin...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

Tennyson Reach Contract Cancelled Due to Flood

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Mirvac lost a legal battle in the Queensland Court of Appeal this week, in relation to an apartment at Tennyson Reach that flooded in Januar...

Soleil Update

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Meriton's Soleil building in Adelaide Street, Brisbane, appears to have reached full height. It is tall and skinny. The building i...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Adjusting property value growth for inflation

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Brisbane has been the weakest performing capital city market over recent times with property values down -7.3% from their March 2010 peak. W...

Flood - backflow valves

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From a Brisbane City Councillor: I have been campaigning for months (along with local residents) for Council to take action on backflow v...

Housing Market Outperforms Shares

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From Chris Joye: " The chart suggests that a national portfolio of housing has comprehensively outperformed all other investment catego...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Oracle Litigations

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There are a number of litigations against people who signed off the plan contracts to purchase apartments in The Oracle development at Broad...

480 Queen St

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A new building has been proposed for 480 Queen Street, on the site of the proposed Trilogy Tower. It is an office building. No apartment...
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Off The Plan The Tips and Traps

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See this article about buying off the plan apartments: Seven traps for unwary off-the-plan buyers
Monday, August 15, 2011

103 Mary Street - new development

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This is a rendering of the new apartment hotel complex being constructed at 103 Mary Street, between the 111+222 hole and RiverCity apartmen...

At Vacant Homes, Foraging for Fruit

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Things in the USA don't look so good. People are harvesting the gardens of vacant homes. See NYTimes .
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Matusik's Blog

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Matusik's blog has a number of posts regarding the Brisbane apartment market. matusikmissive.wordpress.com

Annual Change in House Values: USA v Australia

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Rentals

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After the temporary surge in demand for rental properties following the natural disasters at the start of this year, Queensland’s rental m...

What Are Valuers Saying About Brisbane

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A report from Herron Todd White this month, that is well worth reading. I have seen real estate agents email the positive parts of this to...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Is this misleading conduct by a developer

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Developers who sell apartments off the plan want them to settle. When there are unsold apartments at the time of the first batch of settlem...

LionsGate

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A small apartment development, called LionsGate , located in Windsor. The website does not say who the developer is! Priced from $367,000.
Saturday, August 6, 2011

Reapfield Sells Maidson Heights

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If you are thinking of buying a property in Brisbane, why not ask a property consultant in Singapore. For example, Metro Property Group is ...

Eden Apartments in Albion

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Eden Apartments are currently in presales. There are a number of buildings, each about 6 levels heigh. Some of the apartments are a good...
Friday, August 5, 2011

Skyline Apartment Prices Fall

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It is not a surprise that the value of apartments in the over-hyped and over-marketed Skyline Towers are not holding up. For example, a 3 ...

Hamilton Harbour Tops Out

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It looks like two of the Hamilton Harbour apartment buildings by Devine have reached full height. A photo above from Kingsford Smith Drive ...

High in the High Rise

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"Here's another misconception: if you're buying apartments, high-rise is best, and the higher the better. This one, too, has be...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Metro Property Group

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There is a rumour that David Devine's Metro Property Group is in the process of selling one of its Bowen Hill's projects to another...
Monday, August 1, 2011

Waters Edge

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Both towers of Waters Edge on the Brisbane River are now complete. 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments now selling: 1 bed from $499,000 2 bed fro...
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Vivid Kangaroo Point

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A new development, Vivid Kangaroo Point , is currently in pre-sales. 19 apartments from $380,000.

Linear Taringa

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Aspect Property has launched a small apartment development on the corner of Gailey Road and Sir Fred Schonell Drive. The development is ca...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Capital Gains and Losses

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According to Rismark, the median capital return to property owners since 1990 has been 7.8% per year. Over the last 20 years, 9.3% of all ho...

House Prices to Fall Further Following Next Interest Rate Rise

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An increase in the cash rate will spark house price falls, according to Cameron Kusher, senior research analyst at RP Data. Rents and yiel...

Oracle Broadbeach

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A new marketing campaign has been launched by the receivers of The Oracle development at Broadbeach. Take a closer look .

Riparian Update

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A three bedroom apartment in Riparian ( 4801/71 Eagle Street ) on level 48 recently sold for $2 million. This is a 314 sqm apartment. It w...

Harry is Happy about Soleil

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"FOR "high-rise" Harry Triguboff, it doesn't get much better than this. Despite the downturn in residential property, esp...
Friday, July 29, 2011

RP Data Rismark June 2011 Index

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The modest overall decline in national dwelling values conceals considerable variation across the capital cities. For example, whereas Brisb...

RP Data Report

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Values Fell by -0.2% during the month of June 2011, the rate of decline is easing – after values fell by -0.5% in March, they fell by -0....

Housing Affordability in Brisbane

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House prices in capital cities are forecast to stay severely unaffordable for at least a decade. A study by the University of Canberra and ...
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