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Will Australian house prices crash in 2013 as predicted by another US property guru? Many Australians’ belief in Real Estate as the best investment would be shocked that a US real estate expert is predicting Australia’s real estate prices could half over the next couple of years. Jordan Wirsz, a respected US real estate adviser  [...]

As housing values thaw across Australia, so goes the dreams of mum and dad property investors trying to build a nest egg on a housing bubble. Australian real estate has avoided the mass loss of property values seen in the US and the UK, partly because Australia’s economy was sheltered from the problems of the [...]

Financial pressure for first home buyers and renters in Australia is rising rapidly according to the AAH (Australians for Affordable Housing). The cost of housing has continued to rise despite no rise in the average income for most households. With rent or mortgage payments taking as much as 50% of the take home pay for [...]

Are Town Planners to blame for Approving Apartments in Brisbane’s Flood prone CBD? Recent Brisbane floods have shown that Brisbane’s town planners have a short memory when to comes to living in the Sub tropical Brisbane. Planning issues at three Brisbane apartment developments are the focus of the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry. Brisbane City [...]

Native gardens grow plants that naturally occur in the area. These take little more than a rainwater tank or natural rainfall to maintain because the plants have long since adapted to their environment. They need no fertilizer because their very shape and substance exists as a result of the particular mix of nutrients found in [...]

Joel Kotlin is an expert in city living and has studied trends of cities  and fertility rates around the World. But is he right about Sydney’s high density housing making you infertile ? I say no, and for several reasons. Firstly Australia’s fertility rate has been dropping since the pill was introduced. Secondly people are [...]

Is the housing shortage real, or just a trumped up story to give home buyers the hurry up. I have changed my mind over the past two years. After repeating the story for years on my blogs of a growing housing shortage in Australia believing it to be true, I now believe it might have [...]