Dec 7, 2015
Want a fixed rate home loan? You'd better read the small print
New fixed-rate mortgages flooding on to the market could slice hundreds of dollars off monthly payments on a typical loan of between $500,000 and $1 million. More than 10 lenders have responded to
Dec 4, 2015
The world's biggest house price bubble
The London housing market has formed the world's biggest house price bubble, according to analysts at UBS… And it warned that London house prices have become more "decoupled" from household earnings t
Dec 1, 2015
Using price as a marketing tool
Stocktake Sales, End of Financial Year Sales, Door-buster Sales” – in an effort to attract customers and by extension more sales, retailers hold and promote the fact that their wares are available for
Nov 26, 2015
Here's how to create a hot spot
The more property-related material one consumes the more times one will hear the term ‘hotspot’. At any point in time, if we were to take stock of every location around the country that every so-calle
Nov 23, 2015
How to kill a city
It appears that some centres around our beloved City are dying a rather slow and painful death and need a visit to the Emergency Department. Take Claremont and Subiaco for instance – once thriving, ex
Nov 19, 2015
Managing your strata manager
Strata managers are employed by apartment owners to help manage apartment buildings, in particular to provide administration services for the owners corporation, and to maintain common property. It
Aug 27, 2015
Rent growth slowest on record
Rental growth has slumped to a record low of 0.9 per cent per annum in Australia’s capital cities, a new CoreLogic RP Data report has found. “The sluggish pace of rental appreciation continues to b
Aug 27, 2015
Malicious damage by tenants on the rise
Landlords in one state are increasingly making insurance claims for damage done to their properties by their tenants. New figures from Victoria’s RACV Insurance show there was an increase in landlo