First home owners grants have been around in most States and Territories for nearly two decades now, and are one of many other financial incentives put forward over the years to help first-time home buyers.
The ori…
Popularity is a double-edged sword it seems.
While there are plenty of reasons why the Sunshine Coast region is the growth darling north of Brisbane, there’s the threat more people calling the coast home will bring…
I was having a beer with a friend on Friday when the results came in.
Scott Morrison was our new Prime Minister.
In fact, ScoMo was our sixth leader in a little over a decade.
The events of past week have bee…
The Brisbane new unit market appears to be turning a corner, with a new survey finding renters are soaking up supply.
Of course, much has been written about the thousands of new units that hit the inner Brisbane ma…
I want you to picture a big suitcase stuffed with $929,000 in cash. It’s all yours. That’s your wealth.
Now, I want you to imagine that suitcase is tied to a very thin piece of string, suspended high in the air, da…
You know the market has turned when you start seeing headlines with words like “bust”, “crunch” and “plunge” in the headlines.
It was only 18 months ago when the words “boom”, “record highs” and “peak” were much mo…
Housing finance is in the news more often than it’s not these days.
One of the reasons is that as capital cities move through their respective cycles so does reporting on the property market.
One day, strong mar…
I remember reading a news article a year or so back about a property investor whose tenant accidentally started a fire in the unit and gutted the place.
The structure was fine and any small repairs that had to be m…
