How long has it been since you received one of those annoying real estate letters soliciting you to sell your investment properties through their agency? For me it was two days ago (but I opened it today); but this time I decided to do something about it! I have written about this before because this…
Housing Market Set To Bottom Out Source: Jenny Rogers | 12:01am August 2, 2012 | Gold Coast Real Estate THE Gold Coast housing market is about six months off the bottom, according to analysts. Two separate housing indexes showed a rise in capital city house values in June, indicating the slump in house prices appears…
Housing prices proving resilient Source: The Courier Mail August 01, 2012 1:05PM AUSTRALIAN capital city house prices rose 0.5 per cent in the June quarter, official data reveals. Australian capital city house prices rose 0.5 per cent in the June quarter, following a 0.1 per cent fall in the March quarter, the Australian Bureau of…
By Michael Matusik | Blogspotting | 27th March 2012 “Home price slide hits mortgages” – “Increased number of homes with negative equity” – “Homes with negative equity on the increase”. Just three headlines, from many, out of last week’s press. Most articles started with variations of the following two sentences: “The share of homes with…
Michelle Collins | Sunday Mail 4/12/2011 UNITS continue to outperform houses in Brisbane, according to the latest market research from property analysts RP Data. RP Data analyst Cameron Kusher said Brisbane house values had increased at an annual rate of 8.2 per cent on average over the past decade compared to annual growth of 9.2…
Monday, 20 December 2010 By Craig James; chief economist at CommSec One of the biggest furphies in 2009 was the claim that Australia had a ‘bubble’ in the housing market. It didn’t and still doesn’t but to some extent you can understand where some commentators were coming from with the claims. In Europe and the…
