Auction activity around Australia is set to pick up steam this weekend, as 390 properties are expected to go under the hammer in Melbourne, a figure considerably higher than the 219 auctions listed on the same weekend last year. Peter Sarmas considers reports that the property market appears as buoyant as it was back in 2010 ...
Have you been fostering grand plans of outdoing Homer Simpson's 'Persephone'? Or maybe you've always dreamed of adding a Wet and Wild atop one of the terminals at Melbourne Airport? Australia Pacific Airports Corporation Pty Ltd recently released a statement calling for public design input into the finer aspects of the new terminal ...
There is a hypothesis going around that stock market performance in January (particularly in the US) predicts its performance for the rest of the year. So if the stock market has a bad month in January, this is likely to continue for the rest of the year. Fortunately, this theory does not hold true as much as it once did ...
Rising unemployment could lead to another interest rate cut and lower the value of the Australian dollar further, making local properties even more attractive to foreign investors. The current Australian dollar value has already hit a 3.5 year low against the US dollar ...
The ABS Housing Finance data for November showed that first time buyer loan commitments fell to a fresh low of 12.3 per cent, while investor loan commitments experienced further growth. With first time buyers clearly struggling, many are holding the availability of negative gearing of investment property responsible ...
On Saturday I had the pleasure of meeting two new delightful clients who had been referred to me by their friends. Their property story was interesting and gripped me to write this article about their purchase strategy and how well it had worked out for them. My client's father had prompted him to purchase an investment property back in 2008. ...