These #4 suburbs topped the million dollar mark last quarter
Some stats look like familiar friends by now: Brisbane has yet again delivered a slow and steady performance, recording 0.7 per cent annual growth, taking the median sales price to $680,000. Other stats leap off the page with celebrity style: like the suburbs which reached million-dollar-median status in the last quarter. To be eligible suburbs […]
How many pillows are too many?
But still, the most heated debates of all play out in the bedrooms. We’re talking about pillows. How many pillows are too many? There was a time in Australia’s history where the ‘one head equals one pillow’ rule could be universally applied across Aussie households. Now it seems that you can fill half a bed […]
Brisbane’s auction scene is getting hotter
Earlier this month, Brisbane saw its highest auction clearance rate in two-and-a-half years. Of 93 properties put to auction, 57.1 per cent sold. This is the highest result since May 2017 when the clearance rate topped 59.6 per cent, reports news.com.au. The data comes courtesy of CoreLogic which claims Brisbane’s clearance rate is the most […]
This northside suburb grew 25% in a year
Any guesses? It’s Northgate, and its most recent claim to fame is that it saw a whopping 25 per cent growth in the 12 months to September, reports news.com.au. This stellar growth probably doesn’t have much to do with the celebrity links of the Norths rugby league club. But this suburb has plenty of other […]
Join the “5% club” and fast track home ownership
We didn’t either until we read it on realestate.com.au. We’re not sure of the source of this snippet, but we’ll focus on the sentiment, which you should too if you’re trying to save for that elusive home deposit. “Saving up the deposit for your first home can sometimes seem like an insurmountable challenge,” the article […]
Should you buy now or wait for a price drop?
Well let’s take a look at some key property market indicators courtesy of economist Jason Murphy’s column in news.com.au. We caution that broad brush observations must be considered with local insights – your suburb is likely to be doing something completely different to somewhere else in Australia! But as a general observation, here lies the […]
Which surprise city boomed 50% in the past 5 years?
This little isle has punched above its weight seeing a huge 50 per cent uplift in prices since 2014. Forgot the Sydney and Melbourne booms, which were less than half by comparison over the same period. Brisbane, on the other hand, continued its slow but steady progress, clocking up 9 per cent growth during this […]
How to bust the gender pay gap to home ownership
Looks like that pesky gender pay gap hasn’t yet up and left us. It’s getting better, says Property Update who published the research, based on ABS data. But it’s not dead yet. “There has definitely been movement in gender equality overall,” it reports. “However, the wage gap is still around 14.1%, meaning women take home […]
Spring brings a flourish of market growth
Brisbane (0.2%), Sydney (1.6%), Melbourne (1.4%), Hobart (0.5%) and Canberra (0.8%) all recorded house price growth in August. So what? Growth in five of eight capital city markets has contributed to the first monthly increase in national dwelling values (0.8%) since October 2017 and the largest since April 2017. It was the second successive month […]
Brissie is the experts’ pick to invest $500,000
This was the question Finder asked a bunch of experts and economists in a recent survey. So what was the verdict? The winner is Brisbane …. and Melbourne. “Sydney has traditionally been Australia’s darling in the property market, but it is no longer the belle of the ball,” Finder insights manager Graham Cooke told Property […]
