Once considered the Great Australian Dream, the family house on a quarter acre block is no longer everyone’s ultimate property choice. Significant changes in our population profile and lifestyle priorities are feeding a strong trend in apartment living. Today, our lifestyles are vastly different to those of our parents. We’re working longer, starting families much […]

Australia’s prestige property market is showing signs of recovery as cashed up buyers swoop on discounted properties in our most desirable suburbs. Premium property took a hit last year as the full force of the GFC significantly impacted highly geared professionals, particularly those in the banking and finance sectors. Large job losses and declining wealth […]

  If you want to achieve the maximum price for your property you need to invest in marketing, whether you’re selling by auction or by private treaty. At a minimum, you need professional photography, a signboard and internet advertising. These are the no-brainers of real estate marketing and will cost you anything from $800 to […]

Beneath the flurry of first homebuyers is a major resurgence of investor activity in property. We haven’t seen them for several years as the mining boom temporarily kidnapped their focus. Now they’re back. Australia’s property market is welcoming a new breed of investor – savvy, informed and wiser from recent lessons learned. They’ve re-jigged their […]

Most Australians are intimidated by the auction process and it’s easy to understand why. Auctions are very exciting events. I’ve been in real estate for 28 years and I still get that surge of adrenaline every time I bid on a property myself. It’s totally normal. But if you avoid auctions because you’re uncomfortable with […]

Australian parents are finding it tougher to provide financial assistance to their adult children in the wake of the GFC, but most Gen Ys are still expecting their parents to support them as they continue living at home well into their early 20s. These are the findings of a survey commissioned by St.George Bank of […]

Investing in property is one of the best ways to shore up your financial future, but your choice of property will have a huge bearing on your capital gains and rental returns, so it’s important to choose wisely. Here are my first few pieces of advice: Drive-by investing. I strongly advocate buying investment properties you […]

The busy start to 2009 has gathered further momentum with our auction clearance rates for most of our offices pushing well above 70 per cent since Easter. Whilst the majority of the strength has centred on the lower end of the market, I’m also seeing sale results more regularly in the $1 million plus range […]

The new financial year brings new opportunities and new confidence to the Australian investment landscape, particularly in the property sector following the ill effects of the global financial crisis of the past 12 months. Now’s the time to shake off the pain of last year and refocus on securing blue chip assets and get set […]