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When selling Melbourne homes in January you can expect scorching heat during your open inspections. But the following tips will help your home to look and feel cool, fresh and enticing to prospective buyers: Chat to us about how a property advocate can help you sell or buy in the current market with confidence. Investment buyers can receive invaluable support and guidance through our …
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What a year 2023 has been in property! Nationally and in Victoria we've seen property prices and interest rates escalate, a shortage of properties for sale, a lack of affordable rentals, and changes to legislation. Of particular note are the changes to land tax laws that are coming into effect from 1 January 2024. We'll see additional clauses in contracts apportioning and adjusting land taxes …
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 property irrespective of the state of the property market. These include death, divorce, downsizing... all these sorts of …
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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 added to the level of buyer anxiety. What will happen in the next 18 months is anyone's guess, although experts predict that property …
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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 within reasonable proximity of the city. A recent survey showed that single income families, couples earning minimum wage and pensioner …
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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, trimming hedges and weeding gardens. But in fact low maintenance homes often occupy a large portion of the block so the backyard becomes a paved …
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 scheme. Treasurer Tim Pallas proposes to extend the vacant residential land tax from inner and middle metropolitan council areas to state …
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You can't argue with numbers, and the numbers are showing that property investors are selling up and tossing their landlord's hats away, clearly a prospect which is causing anxiety for many tenants. New research by the Property Investment Professionals of Australia (PIPA),indicates that 12.1% of property investors sold one or more of their rental properties in the past 12 months, with just 24% …
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While Tuesday's interest rate rise didn't come as a surprise, it still hurts many mortgage holders who are already struggling. The November rise marks the RBA's fifth increase this calendar year following hikes in February, March, May and June, with further rises probable. The point of interest now is, how will this impact the housing market? Indications are that the latest rise could slow …
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A recent article published on realestate.com revealed an alarming trend. One in four Melbourne landlords have sold an investment property in the last year, leaving Melbourne ranked as the second worst capital city to invest in property. While the trend is nationwide, only Hobart beats Melbourne for the bottom spot, as an estimated 217,000 properties have been sold by investors …
