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| 11 Mar 2010 - Landlords, owner-occupiers to foot bill for assessing energy efficiency |
Properties will have to be energy rated before they are sold or leased. From May next year, Australian property owners will learn more about the environmental smarts of their homes under new laws to tackle carbon emissions.
| 8 Mar 2010 - Buying off the Plan - Beware the many pitfalls |
YOU'D never buy a pair of expensive jeans without trying them on first. After all, the cut could be unflattering and sizes are not what they used to be.
| 5 Mar 2010 - Call to double first home buyers' grant |
Victoria's real estate industry has called on the state government to double its first home buyers' grant, as new figures showed a record number of Victorians took advantage of the handouts in 2009.
| 2 Mar 2010 - Reserve Bank Interest Rate Announcement |
Australians have been hit with a 0.25 per cent interest rate rise today, following the Reserve Bank Board's meeting.
| 1 Mar 2010 - How to price your property |
Setting the right price is crucially important to the successful sale of your property. Get it wrong and you risk losing money or even not selling at all. But it’s not enough to rely on an agent’s opinion and simply hope for the best, according to Gil Davis, you need to be able to make your own informed judgment.
| 28 Feb 2010 - Fundamentals top of mind for property investors |
Recent months have certainly been interesting for property investors. With the Australian economy turning the corner onto the road of recovery and three successive cash rate increases by the Reserve Bank of Australia between October and December 2009, it’s becoming more important for property investors to focus on having the fundamentals right when it come
| 26 Feb 2010 - House prices set to rise by 8pc across the nation |
HOUSING prices could increase another 8 per cent this year -- on top of last year's 12 per cent -- before rising interest rates take the steam out of the market closer to Christmas.
| 24 Feb 2010 - Land sales and prices surge |
The cost of residential land continues to rise nationally, according to a new report showing the median price of raw land jumped 5.7 per cent to $181,158 in the September 2009 quarter.
| 22 Feb 2010 - Property market finds it feet |
Australia has weathered the storms of the past year and will continue to be resilient, but faces a potentially disastrous housing shortage, according to a recent report.
| 20 Feb 2010 - Where to from here for interest rates? |
The Reserve Bank Board minutes that relate to their meeting in the first week of February make an interesting read if you like to keep up to date on the economic state of play. The minutes provide a relatively easy to digest synopsis of the factors that are deliberated by the Reserve Bank Board as they decided whether official interest rates should m
| 14 Feb 2010 - Two more rate rises then nothing for 15 years says economist |
That’s the bad news.
The good news is the cash rate will hold steady at 4.25 per cent for the next 10 to 15 years
The good news is the cash rate will hold steady at 4.25 per cent for the next 10 to 15 years
| 12 Feb 2010 - Housing fnance - the largest decrease since August 2009. |
Housing finance figures show RBA decision to put interest rates on hold justified