Brisbane Apartment

In trying to work out which way the market is heading, I decided to call a number of Brisbane real estate agents who sell apartments.  Last ...

The Courier Mails reports that developers are building apartment buildings with smaller apartments, because that is what is selling today.  ...

I have been looking at the listing and sale prices for two bedroom apartments in Brisbane. During the peak of the market, which was about 20...

A nice story in the New York Times on Sunday about the founder of PlatinumHD.tv , which is used by some real estate agents to promote proper...

There is an interesting story in Property Observer by Matusik.  In it, he says: " Market watchers will have their own theories on mi...

New York apartment on Central Park South sold for $70 million. Soul Penthouse at Surfers Paradise, in final stages of completion, hoping...

My prediction for the next four months -- the Brisbane property market will continue to decline.  My reasons - (a) There is much uncertainty...

A number of off-the-plan purchasers for The Oracle development at Broadbeach refused to settle.  One reason they gave for their refusal was ...

Any further financial imposts on property investors is likely to see them pull up stumps and sell their rental properties, according to th...

This weekend, I visited Park at Waterfront , a newly completed Mirvac apartment tower at the Newstead River Park.  The area was dark and des...

Metro 21 (21 Mary Street) Apt 1701, 2 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, sold furnished  $492,500  (rents for $700 per week) Apt 1003, 1 bedroom, $3...

Apt 1907, 2 bedrooms, sold on 11 April 2012 for $456,000 Apt 1104, 1 bedroom, no car, sold on 27 March 2012 for $326,000 Apt 2808, 2 bedr...

There are many newspaper reports that discuss rising or falling house & apartment prices by reference to the median sales price for a pa...

Press Release from REIQ today :  Queensland’s unit and townhouse market experienced strengthening demand over the March quarter, according t...

The Brisbane housing market is starting to experience the benefits of the resources boom but the Gold Coast remains one of the “worse perf...

"The head of real estate strategy at Macquarie Capital, Rod Cornish, uses an affordability measure that brings together the mortgage ...

Archers director Andrew Staehr said building owners across Queensland had passed by-laws to stop people smoking in apartment buildings, with...

The Australian Reserve Bank decreased its interest rate today by 0.25%.  BOQ immediately dropped its home lending rate by 0.2%.  Will this a...

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"As at the end of May, Melbourne dwelling prices are off about 5% this year. But most of this decline has materialised since the middle...

From a recent RP Data Report: Brisbane values and volumes Over the past 12 months, property values in Brisbane have fallen by -6.6 ...

Campbell Newman is proposing new plans for the North Bank area of the Brisbane River, including George Street.  It seems like the hotel an...

Residential property values have continued to slide across the capital cities, with the RP Data-Rismark Home Value Index recording a -1.4 pe...

Valuers HTW say in their recent report that the Brisbane apartment market has bottomed out.  They also say this about residential property ...

From my conversations with U.S. brokers (real estate agents), it appears that in some markets in the United States, there are now more buyer...

See story in SMH Meriton chief Harry Triguboff said 80 per cent of his customers are Chinese.   One reason is that foreign buyers can buy a...

Some extracts from a recent SMH article (and the SMH is usually pro-property, because its biggest advertisers are real estate agents): ...

An interesting decision regarding Sam Vecchio, who is the developer of the Rive apartment complex at Breakfast Creek.  Sam Vecchio's pri...

A recent decision holding that a "no pets policy" was unreasonable.  See Palm Grove Village . In another recent decision, Bay Vi...

According to the OECD, Australian households remain heavily geared with a high ratio of household debt to disposable income(183.7%), but t...

"Property values across the combined capital cities of Australia showed renewed softness in the latter half of April with dwelling va...

It is rumoured that Suncorp has pulled out of the Southpoint deal, because the developer could not get finance. See here  and here . S...

Australian residential property will now be less attractive to foreigners after the Federal Budget last night.  As a large number of foreign...

Apartment 2808 in Charlotte Towers, 128 Charlotte Street, is reported as sold for $510,000.  This is a 2 bed, 2 bath apartment.  Total area...

Is Laing O'Rourke misleading people, or just careless?  Last month, to much fanfare, it released a press release to report  that it has ...

U.S. mortgage insurer, Genworth , that has operations in Australia, released a report yesterday to Wall Street regarding its Australian res...

According to the ATO, there were 1,751,679 property investors declared to the ATO in 2009-10 - representing one in seven taxpayers - an incr...

Demand for rental properties continues to strengthen with vacancy rates tightening across the State, according to the Real Estate Institute ...

"So how have things actually faired in the last four months? agents report patchy progress, but on balance they have been more encourag...

I like this quote from the Chief Economist from Morgan Stanley: "Traditionally what has hurt people has not been rising (interest) ra...

" Within a 10-kilometre radius of each city centre the opportunities to purchase units below $500,000 are much more abundant than they ...

Photo today of the 111+222 hole (still with water) and the demolition site for 103 Mary Street .  You can see 212 Margaret Street in the...

“We are very bullish in a market people are saying is the worst they have seen in 20 years," Devine says. “Brisbane is in the doldr...

The 111+222 development appears to be moving forward, with the smaller tower (commercial office space at 111 Mary Street) being built first ...

"Based on the material presented, I am not satisfied the committee’s decision to deny the applicant’s pet request was reasonable in the...