Our daily Melbourne property market updates are written by experienced property commentators, buyer advocates and investment experts. All have their finger on the pulse of the Melbourne property market.
Louis Christopher of SQM Research reports that figures released this month have revealed the number of residential vacancies edged down across the nation in February 2015. Read the full report.
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Peter Sarmas comments on Joe Hockey’s proposal to allow first home buyers to access their superannuation, read the latest research results from BIS Shrapnel, the hot investment segment from the latest household surveys, guidelines related to the growth in investor lending and the conditions in the construction sector in Victoria.
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A review of data from the apartments advertised for sale in the past two years shows that the size of dwellings does vary between the three inner city suburbs of Melbourne, Docklands and Southbank. Robert Larocca of CoreLogic RP Data reports on unit sizes in and around Melbourne.
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Treasurer Joe Hockey says Australia needs to make the super system more flexible, so flexible in fact that we should be able to spend a portion of our super in our youth as a deposit to buy a home. Louis Christopher reports on real estate property bubble alert following Hockey Thought Bubble. ...
Why are some suburbs easier to buy in Melbourne compared to others? Find out the difference between the cost of living in 1984 and 2014 and where the top 10 Australian coastal areas are set to surge. Do you want to buy the narrowest house in the world? It's up for sale. ...
Martin North of Digital Finance Analytics reports the hot Sydney property market is distorting the national real estate property picture. The monthly lift in property prices was 1.3% in Sydney, compared with a combined capital city change of 0.2%. It should sound a warning, if the London market is anything to go by. ...