by Wendy Chamberlain | Jul 5, 2018 | Buying a Home
Buying a house in Melbourne is still a huge challenge for many young people. A new report shows that young Melburnians are more likely to take five years to save for a deposit to buy a home in the cheapest suburbs. The report released by the Domain Group looked into...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Jul 5, 2018 | Suburb Profile
Buying a property in Watsonia can be a daunting and difficult process. For many of us, it is something we only do a few times in our lives. A buyers advocate (also known as a buyers agent or property finder) can be an enormous help to make it easy to buy a home or...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Jul 3, 2018 | Auctions
The new Federal legislation on the payment of GST in property developments took effect as at July 1st 2018. The legislation is aimed at preventing businesses in the property development area failing to remit the GST to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) after a sale...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Jul 3, 2018 | Buying a Home
The Reserve Bank of Australia today left the current official cash interest rate unchanged at its historic low level of 1.5 percent. An earlier survey showed most respondents predicting the current rate to be kept on hold. In his monetary policy statement earlier, RBA...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Jul 2, 2018 | Auctions
Melbourne’s auction clearance rate fell back to 60 percent on a cold Saturday from the previous week’s 62 percent. The number of scheduled auctions followed the same trend at 641 from the previous 821. Reports noted that the very cold weather caused a low...