Brisbane Apartment

Quay West is a great apartment building, overlooking the Botanical Gardens on Alice Street.  A one bedroom apartment in this building is ove...

The  Spice Apartments  development at South Brisbane is currently being sold off-the-plan.  According to the agents selling these apartments...

RP Data reports that the Brisbane property market has under performed the combined capitals average since 2008 but is gathering some mome...

RP Data reports the following: Mortgage demand has started to level recently The RP Data Mortgage Index (RMI) shows that mortgage dema...

It is reported that W Hotels will manage a new hotel that will soon be developed on part of the old State Courts site on George Street.  Th...

The Courier Mail has an article today about potential pain for rental property owners.  "A flood of new apartments being built in Brisb...

The Australian newspaper has a lift out regarding buying and investing in new apartments.  See ProjectApartment .

From the AFR on Friday, 5 September 2014, p. 17:  "Rising housing prices in Australia require monitoring by regulators but the risk pos...

Place has released its June quarter Inner Brisbane Apartment Report .  Place also has a property blog .

This is a good article by Yardney that sets out which types of investment properties to avoid.  I agree with his lists:   Know Which Propert...

Sunland (who developed Q1 and Circle on Cavill on the Gold Coast, and who is developing Abian in  Alice Street) has released pictures showin...

From RP Data's months report for August 2014: According to today’s results, with rental rates rising at a slower pace than dwelling va...

FKP's The Milton development is growing over Milton Station.  Workmen tell me you get a good view of the train line and the XXXX brewery...

Austin on Grey Street is almost fully built.  The rental campaign has started.  A 2 bed 1 bath apartment on a high floor with "breatht...

I recently came across an article from the NY Times from November 2013, discussing how Australians are investing in residential real estate ...

If you are thinking of buying in South Brisbane, you should first look at the Kurilpa Urban Renewal Master Plan, published by the Brisbane C...

If you engage a real estate agent to look after your property rental, the costs can be rather high compared with the service actually receiv...

Today's paper had a chart with the top rental yields for inner-city Brisbane.  All were apartments.  A summary of some of the data: S...

Looking at the number of views of this blog since 2007, December is the month with the lowest number of readers, year on year.  My guess is ...

The Brisbane inner city apartment market is somewhat strange at present.  Some points to note: I mentioned in a recent post that there wer...

A newspaper article by Matusik in the Courier Mail today reflected on potential changes to the Brisbane inner city apartment market: ...

I'm watching Australian property: Boom to Bust on   http://www.afr.com/videos/business/australian-property-boom-to-bust-xjbwt3bzqu973akn...

A recent Supreme Court of Queensland case shows that it is important to be precise when following contractual provisions.  A buyer and selle...

" However I like Brisbane at the moment; it’s the capital city with the strongest potential for capital growth. It’s at about 7.30 on t...

Harbour Lights [2014] QBCCMCmr 264 (21 July 2014) Quote: In McKenzie v Body Corporate for Kings Row Centre, the scheme in question was ...

Double click on the above to make bigger.  Source:  RP Data

One of the better buildings in the South Bank / South Brisbane area is Arbour on Grey, located on Grey St and Little Stanley Street.  It was...

In Brisbane (and also the Sunshine Coast), there are a limited number of apartments listed for sale by owners (excluding off the plan and de...

RP Data's blog had a post responding to a Fairfax criticism of the RP Data property index,  It is worth reading.  One interesting graph...

Pointcorp is marketing The Highgate located in Highgate Hill, next door to the famous Torbreck building.  Looks like it will have great vi...

iStay River City  - 79 Albert St Apt 1201, 1 bed, 1 bath - sold on 27 July for $335,000 Charlotte Towers - 128 Charlotte St Apt 2404...

It is interesting to see how resales have gone for off-the-plan purchasers in Meriton's Soleil (501 Adelaide St, Brisbane).  Some origin...

According to RP Data: "Capital city dwelling values were 1.1 per cent higher over the three months ending July, taking the aggregat...

A long running lawsuit about a car parking space reached conclusion recently, with a decision from the Queensland Court of Appeals. See  Ha...

Interest rates for residential housing are at lifetime record lows.  Banks are awash in cheap cash that they want to lend.  Lending standard...

From the AFR on 30 July 2014, p. 28 "Recent house price appreciation has been driven by more than simply a strongly growing populatio...

Capital city dwelling values have shown a 1.4 per cent capital gain over the month of June 2014, with all cities apart from Adelaide and Dar...

I was speaking with a U.S. homeowner recently who handed her keys back to the bank.  She bought a house in NY State about 5 years ago, subst...

Four recent articles in the AFR are of interest in relation to the impact of China on Australian property. " Spike in approvals for f...

Chief executive of McGrath Estate Agents and founder of the Australasian Real Estate Conference, John McGrath, said residential property in...

From an RP Data Press Release today: Dwelling values record first month-on-month fall since May 2013  For the first time in 12 ...

Thank you to readers and contributors.  This blog has just passed 500,000 page views.  And that does not include page views from the predece...

Tom Dooley (TDD) is launching their Skyring development at the Gasworks site in Newstead (30 Festival Place).  This area is a popular devel...

Place has published their " Current Market Report - Inner Brisbane Apartments - March Quarter 2014 ".  Link is here . The report...

From a recent Ray White report by Colin Walsh: "Admiralty Towers 1 continues to be one of the Brisbane CBD's most sought after re...