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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Do Australians really want townhouses and apartments over a single house on a block? I doubt it, but that’s what a recent survey found. A recent article on Australians suggested that Australian home buyers were more interested in an apartment or a townhouse than in a quarter acre block. The great Australian dream of owning [...]
Australia’s conservative party focus groups new spin, “housing affordability crisis” to describe home buyers reluctance to buy over priced homes. Australia does not have a housing affordability crisis. It has a housing and land price bubble that savvy home buyers know about and are using it too drive prices down. The Housing affordability reality. Housing [...]
The State Government is using scarce land sales to justify land tax hikes for all If you are a homeowner in Brisbane or the Gold Coast you know you have been conned by a cash strapped QLD State Government. Queensland Government land valuation hikes of up to 35 per cent are being issued against a [...]
Home builders australia wide are doing it tough as home buyers shun high land prices. Land prices have hit the ridulous in Queensland, and this is where the pain for the construction industry is worst. There is no other reason but too higher land prices that I can see for people to stop wanting to [...]
