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The suburb that never sleeps: What it’s like to live and work in Brisbane’s coolest neighbourhood HENRY JOHNSTONE First published 11 April 2024, 3:45pm Every city has a Fortitude Valley – an edgy hub of music and nightlife where a heady mix of locals and tourists flock to let their hair down. Yet Brisbane’s ‘coolest’ suburb […]

During the intervening years, the meandering muddy banks of the Brisbane River have been transformed into Australia’s fastest-growing capital city. Back in 1823, with his colonial clairvoyance, John Oxley envisioned it as much. As fate would have it, in December that year, the then Surveyor-General of NSW sailed into Moreton Bay looking for a place […]

A large share of properties hitting the market this year were owned for three years or less, but the reason why isn’t what it might initially seem. The share of short turnaround listings has picked up over the past couple years, after bottoming out during the pandemic, and is currently sitting around the highest it’s […]

CoreLogic’s national Home Value Index (HVI) marked a sixth consecutive monthly rise, up 0.8% in August. The monthly gain was a slight acceleration from the 0.7% increase in July, interrupting a two-month trend of slowing capital gains.  Since bottoming out in February, the national HVI is up 4.9%, adding approximately $34,301 to the median dwelling value. […]

Carmen and Troy Bull still managed to get their dream home in AVID’s Chambers Ridge community in the second half of 2022 despite being ineligible for FHOG because one of them owned property before. New data shows the number of first homebuyer grants paid out by the Qld government has halved so far this financial […]

The number of apartments in Brisbane’s inner city has doubled in 10 years. MORE than 10,000 new units are bound for Brisbane’s inner city in 2023 as the rise of apartment living gives way to a new way of life in the Queensland capital. Families and households earning $200,000 or more are set to be […]

The inaugural realestate.com.au Hot 100 has been released, identifying the suburbs around Australia with the best real estate prospects in 2023. Compiled from the insights of a panel of industry experts – including the head of a major agency group, buyer’s agents, researchers, and an academic – and complemented by PropTrack data and economic analysis, […]

Successive interest rate rises, surging inflation, low consumer sentiment and deteriorating affordability drove a shift in Australia’s 2022 housing market performance, CoreLogic’s annual Best of the Best report reveals. The seminal publication, which sums up the country’s annual property performance and provides an outlook for the year ahead, shows the diversity in market conditions across geographies, value […]

56 Hargreaves Avenue, Chelmer, Brisbane, is looking for offers over $1.95 million. Photo: McGrath Paddington By Ellen Lutton November 29, 2022 Brisbane’s housing market may have finally succumbed to the downturn, but as for falling prices, they’ve been kept to a minimum so far, new data has revealed. The latest Domain House Price Report showed Greater Brisbane’s […]

The Brisbane property market’s seemingly endless run of blazing growth run is now in the rearview mirror. After home values exploded by +42.7 per cent from the Covid trough to the market peak in June 2022, Brisbane house prices took another sharp dive in October according to CoreLogic data as the Sunshine State finally began to catch up with […]

Brisbane will score 433 new apartments to house athletes and officials and a 10,000-bed athletes’ village. Australians are pumped for the Brisbane Olympic Games, and so should be the homeowners in pockets of the Queensland capital where the action will be. Residents in key suburbs in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast, where […]

Property prices continue to rise across Brisbane, albeit at a more modest pace, as rate rises, high inflation, poor affordability and increasing supply fuel steeper declines in house values across the country. Brisbane house prices further escalated with the onset on Covid-19 when people placed a higher value on privacy with interstate migration, propelled by residents of […]

Queensland’s build-to-rent pipeline has more than doubled in the past year, driven by aggressive acquisition strategies from major players who have been scaling up. While Victoria dominates Australia’s build-to-rent pipeline with 60 per cent of stock, both operational and in planning or construction, Queensland’s pipeline has grown significantly to now be well ahead of NSW. According to […]

The cheapest place to buy an inner city house in Brisbane is Spring Hill. It’s also just a kilometre from the CBD. Photo: Ray White New Farm There has long been a joke in Brisbane that anyone who lives further than five kilometres from the CBD is too far out to be worth visiting. This […]

A rebalancing of supply and demand is gradually shifting Brisbane’s market dynamics. Home owners have reacted to record pricing with a strong flow of new listings throughout the year. Together with the value of home loans being financed pulling back from its peak. These dynamics have boosted the total number of advertised homes for sale, […]

Brisbane City Council is forging ahead with its plans for the Brisbane Metro, releasing renders of the Cultural Centre station and precinct. Works are under way on the council’s $1.7-billion mass transit project, which will extend from Eight Mile Plains in the city’s south to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, and connect to the […]

Three Australian capitals cracked the top 20 list of global cities that have recorded the strongest property price growth in residential prices over a 12-month period, according to a new report. Knight Frank’s Global Residential Cities Index for Q1 2022, which tracks the movement in mainstream residential prices across 150 cities worldwide, has revealed that […]

Queensland’s market is not going in the same downward direction as its southern cousins anytime soon, according to the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ). Data from the state’s real estate body showed the Sunshine State continued to record solid property price growth in the March 2022 quarter, a stark contrast with the sombre situation unfolding […]

The effects of the first interest rate hike in more than 11 years are now being felt across the country as national property prices dropped by -0.1 per cent in May, according to CoreLogic’s latest report. Once again, results were mixed between different cities and regional areas but prices still remain well above pre-pandemic levels. […]

Rental property income and deductions will be among the most scrutinised items this tax time, according to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). The agency has said that it will be looking closely to ensure rental property owners are declaring all of their income and cited landlords’ tax returns as one of four key areas of […]