Total Property Listings Rise in April
National residential property listings rose in April 2021 by 2.4% to 262,617 from 256,568 in March 2021, while asking houses prices jumped 6.1% in Sydney as the property market gathers
What we can learn from Australia’s median house prices from 1970-2016
To buy a home now or wait? It’s a question many people are asking themselves as property prices continue to grow across Australia. Property prices have always been a popular topic of
Know your rights when you have a fence war with your neighbours
So, what are your rights when a new dividing fence needs to be put up between you and next door? Broadcaster Richard Glover wrote a column for the Sydney Morning Herald outlining to
A complete guide to Capital Gains Tax
This is the time when the Federal Government gets their share of the profit that you’ve made from investing in property as it’s technically classed as personal income. So, in this
Housing lending may be cheap, but regulators argue it is not yet risky
New data suggests changes to mortgage lending rules in the near future are unlikely, despite rapidly rising home values. Recent data from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) suggests that while the proportion
RBA should not be “too heavy handed” towards real estate market: Bill Evans
The RBA has successfully slowed housing markets in 2015 and 2017, Bill Evans noted. The RBA will need to be careful not to be too heavy handed when it comes to
NAB drops some fixed home rates to sub 2%
In recent months, fellow big four banks Westpac and Commonwealth Bank had each cut at least one home loan rate to below 2% p.a with only ANZ still yet to do so. As of today, NAB
Chief Economist: New development suburbs bursting with homes for sale
The number of people emailing real estate agents to enquire about homes for sale on realestate.com.au is up more than 70% over the past 12 months, but despite an increase
Pre-Settlement Inspections: Everything You’re Asking, Answered
You’ve exchanged contracts, waited patiently through the settlement period and now the keys have almost swapped hands. There’s just one more thing to do: the pre-settlement inspection. A pre-settlement inspection is