by Wendy Chamberlain | Dec 22, 2023 | Auctions, Buying a Home, Real Estate News, Selling a Home
When interest rates and house prices are rising, people become cautious. They wonder whether to buy and sell now, or wait for a better time. The market may slow, but it keeps ticking over because there are fundamental reasons why people continue to buy and sell...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Dec 15, 2023 | Auctions, Buying a Home, Real Estate News, Selling a Home
The property market is a fickle thing, heavily influenced by a range of factors and variables which make it hard to know when is a good time to buy. Significant rises in property values and thirteen interest rate rises over the past 18 months have certainly...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Dec 8, 2023 | Auctions, Buying a Home, Real Estate News, Selling a Home
Housing reform can’t come quick enough for Melbourne’s struggling tenants. Hit hardest by the limited supply of rental properties and skyrocketing rents are low to middle income earners who are finding it near impossible to rent an affordable home...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Dec 1, 2023 | Auctions, Buying a Home, Real Estate News, Selling a Home
Big family homes on small blocks and even downsized homes on courtyard allotments are marketed as “low maintenance living” – a term that entices buyers with visions of relaxing lifestyles and social weekends spent out and about, not mowing lawns,...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Nov 24, 2023 | Auctions, Buying a Home, Real Estate News, Selling a Home
So, better times might be ahead for tenants and home buyers struggling with the lack of affordable homes. Reforms to Victoria’s housing industry continue with the Treasurer’s recent proposal to introduce changes to the current residential land tax...
