Brisbane Apartment

According to SQM Research, the Brisbane rental market is tightening, with less advertised vacancies than this time last year.  See note .

Part of Grey Street at South Bank (South Brisbane) is getting a major and needed facelift. The new ABC headquarters are almost complete. ...

Diversified property group Australand is poised to begin construction on one of Brisbane’s most anticipated new residential projects – the $...

A new blog has recently been launched by Colliers Real Estate dealing with project marketing.  That is, marketing a real estate project, suc...

"Balconies are definitely a safety issue and no doubt the battle over how to make them safer hasn't finished yet. But at least wi...

“The bills were endless. There's the rates, the utilities and also the insurance for the property,” Klemencic said. The Klemencics sol...

Indooroopilly shopping centre is set for a major facelift, with a $450 million expansion receiving the green light from planning authorities...

I recently visited an apartment in Soleil, which is in the Meriton pool.  Meriton is running a short term rental business out of Soleil, and...

A summary from the recent September 2011 Quarter RP Data home equity report. The highlights of the report are: Over the five years to...

It is hard to tell, but it appears that only about a third of the apartments purchased off the plan in the first stage of the Soul tower at ...

Housing values record their first monthly increase since December 2010 in November 2011 Capital city dwelling values up 0.1% over t...

John Edwards at Residex believes that there is blue sky ahead for the Australian residential property market.  A quote from a blog entry fr...

According to contrarian economist Professor Steve Keen, it was accelerating debt that drove house prices up and it is decelerating debt th...

"And buyers from China once again topped the list, according to new research by Colliers International.  The figures on buying patter...

"The high-rise market on the Gold Coast is nothing like any other Australian market. "It's a unique market and it's dr...

Here are the recent reported apartment sales in the larger Brisbane downtown buildings.  Most of these sales closed in the period from late ...

With the market remaining soft most of last year, Mr Lawless said Brisbane was again becoming more affordable compared to other capital citi...

A recent report by Urbis lists South Brisbane as being "trendy" and Indooroopilly as a "prime unit location".  Bowen Hil...

Many landlords are hostile to pets.  My experience is that students are worse than pets. " Brisbane vet Michael O'Donoghue has se...

There is a new apartment development currently being marketed in Fortitude Valley.  It is called The Dunmore .  Management rights have bee...

I am not going to make any major predictions for the Brisbane apartment market for 2012.  It is too uncertain what will happen next. It is...

Introduction Finding a good apartment or home unit to rent in Brisbane is not easy, particularly in January and February when the demand ...

I have recently come across off-the-plan developments in Brisbane where the agent is being paid a flat 7% or 8% commission.  These agents ar...

Rents and apartment prices to face some stiff competition in Teneriffe? The sky-high rentals and apartment sale prices being charged f...

An excellent article by Bill Moss, who was very senior at Macquarie Bank, has been published recently. " I have always believed that ...

A new Soul website, that shows actual interior photos of apartments, has been launched.  It appears that less than 100 apartments have actu...

"Foreign developers have grabbed a 30 per cent share of Australia's apartment market, a trend not repeated since the Japanese off...

"Home developer Devine warns deteriorating property market conditions will cut its full year pre-tax profit by 31 per cent. Market co...

"Australia's housing shortfall is expected to blow out to more than 640,000 in 20 years, prompting industry calls for tax cuts and ...

Here is an interesting but sad story about a teacher's aid, who signed an off-the-plan contract in 2006 to purchase an apartment in The ...

The developer of The Oracle at Broadbeach was sued by a number of people who purchased apartments off-the-plan and then, after the market dr...

Property commentator Michael Matusik published some articles recently about the risks of buying of the plan.  See: Risks 1 to 3 Follow Up ...

This story has been submitted by a reader: "Read with interest your story “ Property or Shares ”. I know many people who are equa...

Mirvac announced today that it is selling its hotel division to Accor .  In Brisbane, Mirvac owns the management rights for Quay West in A...

Top 10 most expensive inner-Brisbane suburbs for unit rentals: RP Data