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The Victorian Government has announced a $3,000 increase to $10,000 for the First Home Owner Grant on new homes, with reductions to stamp duty for first home buyers. From July, first home buyers buying “newly constructed homes”, and stamp duty for first time buyers will be decreased by 40 per cent. Victorian families will be [...]

Australian has taken over the US as the McMansion capital of the World. But are bigger homes better for us? As Mel Brooks once said, “That’s it baby, when you’ve got it flaunt it.” Australians love the Australian Dream, and in Australia that means a home of your own. Until recently, it didn’t mean a [...]

Australia’s house prices have remained stubbornly resilient through and beyond the Global Financial Crisis to now, and I believe that any “housing bubble ” threat has past long ago. Here are my reasons. For over a decade I have been saying house prices are too high because land prices are too high. They were too [...]

New home sales fell in February after four consecutive months of growth, said the Housing home building industry. According to HIA’s New Home Sales report which surveyed of Australia’s largest volume builders, showed new home sales fell by 5 per cent in February, reflecting a 4 per cent reduction in detached house sales, and a [...]

Brisbane is expected to be home to more than 200,000 new residents within the next 20 years. So what does that mean for you? Brisbane’s New Draft Plan: Planning for the Future In the new draft plan for Brisbane’s future, the Brisbane City Council hopes to squeeze most of those new residents into existing suburbs, [...]