According to Terry Ryder, owner of Hotspotting.com.au , you should avoid buying real estate in places like Queensland’s Sunshine Coast and Mt Isa, the Victorian town of Shepparton, and suburban Bankstown in Sydney. Generally it has something to do with a high crime rate, overdeveloped and overpriced markets, or excess traffic congestion. In some ways …
Last September a young couple in one of Brisbane’s bayside suburbs put their home on the market with one of their local agents. After a few months they didn’t get much interest and the house didn’t sell, so they decided to list the home with another agent. The new agent had the home professionally photographed, …
Some agents are finding it tough to get the listings at the moment, while others are experiencing record sales. One agency down at Wynnum has just had their best month ever, and we’re as busy now as we were in the crazy period of spring last year.
It’s a weird time in the real estate market. In February finance group AFG sold over 7,000 mortgages for a grand total of $20 billion, which is a 27 percent increase on January. According to The Age newspaper the number of mortgages sold last month across Australia was 14 percent higher than in February 2005. …
Earlier this week I photographed a home for a couple who currently have their property listed with a Jenman system agent. The owners said that they’re not happy with the real estate agent because he only took one really bad photo of their home (see photo on left), and that’s all that’s showing at realestate.com.au. …
They had been told we were coming … they’ve had the house on the market for over a month … but when we got there yesterday it was a mess. I mean, it wasn’t the worst place I’ve ever done, but it was pretty bad. There was rubbish and rotting food sitting in plastic bags …
There are calls from the Liberal backbench in Canberra to lift the first home owners’ grant to $15,000. “Increasing the home buyers grant to $15,000 will help tens of thousand of people exit the rent trap to buy their own place.” – Gold Coast Liberal MP Steven Ciobo Mr Ciobo also said that the Government …
I was doing a photo shoot for an agent yesterday, and she was telling me about a unit at Southbank that we photographed for her late last year. The unit was a strange shape, so the agent suggested to the owners that they hire a company to furnish the unit, as this will help to …
There was an interesting article in the NY Times recently on “The power of words” (you’ll need to register with the NY Times to see it, but it’s free). It’s obviously US-focussed, but it outlines the way in which real estate agents and the public describe the changing real estate market. Are we in a …
In a recent survey of housing markets in Australia, NZ, Ireland, the UK and the USA, it was concluded that “the most pervasive national crisis is in Australia, while the crisis is nearly as serious in Ireland, New Zealand and the UK.” You can find the full report here. The survey compared the medium house …