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Brisbane overtakes Melbourne: No end in sight to home price rises Brisbane home prices have officially overtaken Melbourne, hitting a record high off a massive 64.7 per cent surge since the pandemic – with experts seeing no end in sight as demand rampages. Sophie Foster PropTrack’s Eleanor Creagh details how Australia’s property market is reacting […]

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 […]

Tower plans have been filed with the revival of a historic Brisbane pub on the doorstep of the city’s CBD as its cornerstone. Cantilevered over the heritage-listed Spring Hill Hotel, the 18-storey mixed-use proposal comprises 126 two and three-bedroom apartments. The development application has been lodged with the Brisbane City Council by Dibcorp, led by […]

On the doorstep of Brisbane’s CBD as well as overlooking a future Olympic venue and entertainment precinct, a development rebound is under way in historic Spring Hill. A slender 15-storey hotel tower along one of Brisbane’s oldest streets is among the latest proposals lodged for the city-fringe suburb. It would comprise 92 short-term accommodation suites […]

Cbus Property has filed plans for a 30-storey tower of 125 apartments in Brisbane’s rapidly growing Spring Hill. The proposed podium and tower project will spread residents across 27 levels in a mixed-use zone. Resident amenities including a gym, pool, barbecue and outdoor recreation area will take up the lower floors, as well as a […]

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 […]

The transformation of an inner-city public golf course into a sprawling new parkland that will also provide a green backdrop to the chase for gold at Brisbane’s 2032 Olympics is a step closer. Brisbane City Council’s Victoria Park-Barrambin draft masterplan has been unveiled and includes new designs featuring pedestrian and cycle bridges, water play areas, […]

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 […]

One of Brisbane’s oldest residential neighbourhoods is set to be revitalised by Keylin, an innovative Brisbane-based property development company creating communities in south-east Queensland. Established on the founder’s core values of honesty, integrity and performance, Keylin harness a collaborative approach that drives the team and contractors to build outstanding lifestyle properties intended to enhance the […]

Veteran Queensland developer Don O’Rorke’s plans for a three-tower, $375-million project on the former ABC Toowong site in Brisbane’s inner-west have been approved by the Brisbane City Council. Consolidated Properties Group, in a joint venture with the fund managed by the Qualitas Group, purchased the 1.2ha site at 600 Coronation Drive in Toowong for $35.5 million […]

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 […]

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 […]

At the end of its monthly meeting yesterday, Tuesday, 3 May, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced its first change to the cash rate in 18 months. For the first time since it was lowered to 0.1 per cent in November 2020, the RBA has increased the cash rate, announcing a 25-basis-point increase from 0.1 to […]

The Australian build-to-rent model is gathering pace, according to a new report, with more new players deciding now is the time to grab investing opportunities in the burgeoning sector. BIS Oxford Economics’ latest report showed that there are approximately 25,000 planned BTR units in development around the country, with around 5,000 expected to break ground […]

The number of days a rental property sits on realestate.com.au before being leased has fallen to a historic low. The online property listing platform’s data arm, PropTrack, has released its residential rental figures from the first quarter of 2022, revealing that properties are now being advertised for fewer than three weeks before being snapped up […]

Brisbane Median Rent March 2022 QoQ Change Houses                                            Units Median Rent $500                       Median Rent $430 4.2%                  […]