Our buyer’s agent part of the business has been busy in the background purchasing some of the healthiest marginally returning assets across Australia. – We have saved four recent clients a collective total amount of $174,000 off the original asking purchase prices. – The average purchase price across the last four purchases was $398,000. – […]
The City of Newcastle has had very strong price growth (many suburbs have risen 20% or more in the past 12 months. Now the momentum has shifted to Lake Macquarie and locations in the nearby Hunter Region (including Maitland, Cessnock, Singleton and Muswellbrook). With incredibly low vacancy rates, a steady yet healthy growth year on […]
Property experts from Hotspotting.com.au have identified dozens of ‘supercharged’ suburbs in areas which investors should now be turning their attention to. The website has just released their latest Price Predictor Index, which shows suburbs around Newcastle in New South Wales and Ballarat in Victoria are stand-out investment opportunity. Terry Ryder, the website’s creator and property […]
Take the time to engage with the right buyer’s agent for you. There are many out there and many that specialise in specific areas only. Yes there are fees associated with using a buyer’s agent but as time rolls on, we can see purchasing property in today’s market is not an easy task… Anyone can […]
Sky-high auction clearance rates and the fear of missing out pushing up the prices of any property that was put on the market. But how did the recent boom compare to previous property booms? Earlier this year, CoreLogic dissected our housing cycle, categorising the past 20 years of data into five year increments, which revealed […]
The Hunter has recorded some of the largest house price increases in Australia over the past year as more people seek to move to the region in search of lifestyle options they could only dream of in capital cities. Domain data released on Thursday shows Port Stephens is leading the Hunter price boom with a […]
Across the capital cities according to CoreLogic, Melbourne has been leading the downturn, with the quarterly rate of decline outpacing Sydney since May this year. Melbourne dwelling values were down 1.8% over the past three months, followed by Perth (-1.5%) and Sydney (-1.1%). Melbourne’s decline phase commenced five months later than Sydney’s, with the market […]
Rental properties in suburban Newcastle are delivering some of the highest investment yields in the nation, new data shows. The latest Domain Rental Report shows other hot suburbs included Adamstown Heights (7.8%), Maryville (6.5%) and Ashtonfield (6.5%). Median weekly rents for houses in the above suburbs were between $450 and $548. “There’s a mix of […]
First home buyers are driving much of the Central Coast’s house price growth. The latest Domain House Price Report out today shows the median home will set us back around $650,000. That’s an increase of 1.6% since last year. But Domain’s Dr Nicola Powell says apartments saw the biggest jumps locally, they now typically cost […]
A fast train network connecting greater Sydney, Wollongong and Newcastle as a “mega region” could create more than 10,000 new jobs, according to a new report. A planning lobby group, the Committee for Sydney, said such a rail network could slash the commutes from Gosford to Sydney, and from Wollongong to Liverpool, by half. The […]