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Posted in Comment on 10th May 2013 by Terry Ryder
The Housing Industry Association has embarked on a national program of misinformation. In doing so, it is set to confirm its reputation as the least credible and most ineffectual of the bodies…
Posted in Comment on 3rd May 2013 by Terry Ryder
Good grief. Another state government, for want of an original idea, has decided to pursue the same first home buyer strategy that has failed elsewhere. Victoria's political leaders, whose only…
Posted in Comment on 28th April 2013 by Terry Ryder
If an agency offered you a $30 gift voucher to submit your home to an appraisal, with a promise of a $250 gift voucher if you listed it with them, would you believe the appraisal? This is life in…
Posted in Comment on 24th April 2013 by Terry Ryder
I started the year predicting capital city market performance would be led in 2013 by Perth and Darwin, with Sydney close behind. Early indications suggest that’s the way it’s panning…
Posted in Comment on 17th April 2013 by Terry Ryder
The latest Rental Report from Australian Property Monitors highlights how much apartments are challenging standalone houses for the hearts and minds of property consumers. One of real estate’s…
Posted in Comment on 13th April 2013 by Terry Ryder
It’s surprising how many think increasing land supply will solve the alleged affordability crisis. Some politicians see it as a magic pill to cure first-home buyer indigestion. Flood the…
Posted in Comment on 10th April 2013 by Terry Ryder
Sydney prices have risen in the first few months of 2013, with some suburbs up 5% to 10%, according to buyers agent Henry Wilkinson. Wilkinson, of Homesearch Solutions, says buyers need to…
Posted in Comment on 5th April 2013 by Terry Ryder
It’s time for the Real Estate Institute of Australia to stop carping about interest rates. Before every Reserve Bank board meeting, the REIA shovels out its standard media release, depicting…
Posted in Comment on 2nd April 2013 by Terry Ryder
Hearty congratulations to Melbourne real estate agency PhilipWebb for deciding to stop advertising client properties in newspapers. The agency has generated publicity for deciding that newspaper…
Posted in Comment on 22nd March 2013 by Terry Ryder
A feature of real estate’s recent history is the poor growth in sea change locations. A feature of the present is that many of these places are on the rise. A likely feature of the future is…
Posted in Comment on 19th March 2013 by Terry Ryder
The fossils of real estate are creatures known as mythosaurus. They’re the relics who cling to ancient folklore such as “the inner-city suburbs provide the best growth” and…
Posted in Comment on 4th March 2013 by Terry Ryder
Some of cheapest locations around Australia are also among the most solid performers on capital growth recently. Tennant Creek, a small but strategically important regional town in the Northern…
Posted in Comment on 26th February 2013 by Terry Ryder
With typical Gladstone houses now selling for well above $400,000, being able to buy there for $100,000 is a distant memory. But 10 years ago, the average house in Australia’s No.1 industrial…
Posted in Comment on 14th February 2013 by Terry Ryder
Lenders are reducing variable home loan rates out-of-cycle and cutting fixed rates to new lows, according to financial comparison website RateCity.com.au. BMC Mortgage was the first to cut some of…
Posted in Comment on 9th February 2013 by Michael Matusik
Well, the ‘bloom’ is starting to outshine the ‘gloom’ – especially in Qld; WA; NT and NSW. The ABS price growth figures confirm what we and a select group of…
Posted in Comment on 1st February 2013 by Terry Ryder
It’s no coincidence that many of Australia’s most compelling property investment markets are places with ports. With the Resources Revolution continuing to be the dominant driver of the…
Posted in Comment on 17th January 2013 by Terry Ryder
Movements in residential rentals in 2012 provide strong clues about where the price growth will be seen in 2013. Australian Property Monitors’ Rental Price Series Quarterly Report shows that…
Posted in Comment on 10th January 2013 by Terry Ryder
2013 will be a year of growth in Queensland property markets. The Brisbane market consolidated in the second half of last year and is poised for a return to price growth, while many of the key…
Posted in Comment on 3rd January 2013 by Terry Ryder
Regional Queensland will spearhead price growth in property markets around Australia in 2013. Our new National Top 10 Best Buys 2013 report (click here to find out more) is dominated by locations in…
Posted in Comment on 15th December 2012 by Michael Matusik
Your weekend three-minute good news read. 1. Steady as she goes We liked Rich Harvey’s note this week highlighting a steady pick-up in market confidence: consumer confidence has…
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UPDATED National Top 10 Port Hotspots The Resources Revolution will continue to be a major driver …
National Top 10 Miners Playgrounds Major mining companies employ many of their workers on …
Top 10 Victoria Hotspots Melbourne's market has made a solid start to 2013, with …
National Top 10 Boom Towns 2013 Can a capital city be a Boom Town? It can if it's …
Top 10 Queensland Hotspots Queensland shapes as Australia's strongest property …
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Perth's property markets have surged in the early part of 2013, as price growth returns to the Western Australia capital for the first time since 2007. WA is Australia's leading boom st…
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QLD: 200km south of Townsville Bowen is poised to grow strongly in the second half of 2013, with an expansion of the port under way and further major expansions in planning. An emerging new resources…
Why is the Perth market so hot? A clue is provided by a Statistics Bureau survey conducted in Western Australia seven months ago, but published only today. The Housing Motivations and Intentions surv…
Hotspotting will feature at the 2013 Home Buyer & Property Investor Show in Brisbane on the weekend of 1-2 June – and we can provide free tickets to the event. Hotspotting founder Terry Ryd…
The Housing Industry Association has embarked on a national program of misinformation. In doing so, it is set to confirm its reputation as the least credible and most ineffectual of the bodies claimin…
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