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First home buyers stop buying land. So who’s to blame? The home builder, the land developer or the Government? I have been warning for months that the price of land is too dear for first home buyers. And I was at least two years too late, because the Rudd Governments tripling of the First Home [...]

In the last ten weeks 72 out of 73 of Queensland’s Local Government areas have been flood affected. Over 70% of QLD went under water at some stage in that period. A “Back Swan Event” for QLD?
In that period many areas have been flooded twice, some areas have been hit with an inland tsunami, with small towns completely washed away. Then we had Cyclone Yasi. Then the Christchurch earthquakes hit our New Zealand cousins hard, with many Kiwis living in Queensland having friends and relatives in Chrischurch. Then we hear and see Japan hit by earthquakes and tsunami that may well be Japans worst natural disaster ever. This will also affect new home buyers.

Brisbane’s Lord Mayor, Campbell Newman says the council wants to build new homes in the interim to a minimum height of 0.5 metre raise above the defined Brisbane flood level of 3.7 metres for all habitable floor levels, until that Royal Commission into the Queensland/ Brisbane floods makes its findings public, and the findings are put into practical and new building codes for flooded areas and flood plains in the future. This could also mean jacking up existing dwellings to meet the new standards so set.

Stocklands offer house and land packages to make owning that new home easier today Queensland’s largest residential land developer has announced incentives to buy land. It hopes to bring new home buyers into the market sooner to take up the slack of recent sales drop off last year. One thing that I have noticed is [...]

Jobs will determine how well the housing sector rides out the financial turmoil, according to Housing Industry of Australia. Falling interest rates and increased grants have helped boost interest in buying a new home but fear of losing their job has kept many buyers waiting in the wings. Melissa Ketchell’s Public Property blogMr Dale told [...]