5 Reasons to Contact a Mortgage Broker for Home Loan Approval
Read 5 Reasons to Contact a Mortgage Broker for Home Loan Approval, by guest author Glen Atkins, Principle Broker at Simplifi Lending. Online calculators can be great to get a rough idea, but there are so many variables in a home loan application that it can be very tricky to navigate or even know where […]
Where to see winning Christmas lights!
Soak up the festive spirit this year with a spin around the northside checking out the 97.3 KIISmas Lights competition winners! Winner Burpengary East – Merry Strickland Christmas 12 Bedarra Crescent Runner up Clontarf – Michael Turnbull 1 Long Street Entrants Albion – Zeb Foster 74 Crosby Road Banyo – Grandma’s Christmas Wonderland […]
#6 Northside suburbs tipped to boom in 2024 – including Aspley!
Well now is the time to be scanning the property news pages for tips and hints on boom suburbs for the year ahead. We’ve been doing our own skimming and have found a couple of articles you might find interesting. Canstar has published a comprehensive assessment of the Brisbane property market by hotspotting.com.au founder Terry […]
What to get the person who has everything? Their very own island!
Victor Island could be yours for the princely sum of $2.75 million. Sure – it’s not quite in the first home buyer range. But it’s a bargain compared to a New Farm address, let alone a Sydney residence. Perhaps a few mates could chip in and suddenly you have your very own island kingdom. Complete […]
$30k First home buyer grant in time for Christmas has critics all lit up
Eligible first time buyers can now get $30,000 – up from $15,000 – towards the purchase of a new home or unit valued at less than $750,000. But critics are warning the grant could worsen housing affordability. What’s causing their festive spirit to sour? The main criticism is that a cash grant will boost demand, […]
Market update: The year that was 2023
What a year it has been for Brisbane property prices! We started our first blog in January this year sharing an SQM Research forecast which tipped Brisbane property prices to grow between 3 and 7 per cent this year. Turns out the upper limit forecast wasn’t far off with Brisbane’s median annual house price growth […]
Market update: Values rise in 99% of Brisbane house and unit markets
What they mean is that even a so-called single property market like Brisbane, is actually made up of many different sub-markets based on location or property type. The clever number crunchers at CoreLogic recently analysed 467 different sub-markets across Brisbane. This included 162 unit suburb markets and 305 housing suburb markets. What did they discover? […]
Women now taking out more solo loans than men
New data from ME Bank shows the proportion of single female home loan applications has now hit 53 per cent. “This data shows that gender is no barrier when it comes to buying your own home,” ME Bank head of home loans James Sheffield told Domain. “While women are buying a little later and with […]
Brissie buyers seeking land, lots of land
It seems our love affair with a tree change may be seeing a post-pandemic resurgence. On the north side, rural residential suburbs like Closeburn near Samford and Kobble Creek near Dayboro ranked in 9th and 10th place on the list of suburbs with the highest number of enquiries per listings. Chandler on the south side, […]
When will interest rates drop? The answer home buyers have been waiting for!
So, when will it stop? September 2024, according to two of the big four banks, while the other two suggest later next year. RateCity has published these forecasts from the banks: CBA: Next cut September 2024, cash rate falling to 2.85% by May 2025 Westpac: Next cut in September 2024, cash rate falling to 2.85% […]
