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Is buying a home really the best investment money can buy, or just an illusion we take as true? Some say that buying a home [either house or unit] is not a financial investment. Others will tell you that a home is the best investment you can make. So, who’s right? If you ask an [...]

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 [...]

Whilst I recommend the article, there is a annoying reference to mortgage brokers at the beginning of the article that riles me, here.

Mortgage brokers hip deep in profits handed out no-doc mortgages to people with fictional incomes. Wall Street shopped bundles of those loans to investors, no matter how unappetizing the details. And federal regulators gave sleepy nods.
That world largely collapsed under the weight of its improbabilities in 2008.

Whist first home buyers loans increased by $20,000 in this period, it was a case of many buying a better property, or bulding a bigger new home, not prices increasing as has been suggested.

New Australian wide consumer protection laws protect home buyers and mean that real estate agents and homeowners must now disclose a home’s baggage, including if anyone has been murdered in the home for sale. No home buyer wants to own a home where there has been foul play, and a home buyers right to know [...]