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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 world premiere of ‘The Sign’, the hotly anticipated 28-minute special Bluey episode, aired on Sunday. Picture: Supplied The Heelers are staying put! The biggest Bluey episode ever aired on Sunday morning centred on the Heelers home selling right in the thick of a family wedding. Throughout the 28 minute episode, titled ‘The Sign’, the […]

BLUEY’S HOME UP FOR GRABS TO TOON OF $6M by SOPHIE FOSTER The Heeler family in hit series Bluey are set to be millionaires six times over after a shock decision to list their  popular Brisbane home for sale –with prices up 70 per cent since the show began. Bandit and Chilli Heeler broke the […]

From foodie hotspots to boutique shopping and art trails, these are some of Brisbane’s most happening haunts. Street art, farmers’ markets and cold press coffee – these seven suburbs around Brisbane have a distinctly cool vibe. From foodie hotspots to boutique shopping and art trails, these are some of Brisbane’s most happening haunts. West End […]

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 […]

As we come into the warmer season, we start to use our air conditioners almost everyday in Queensland. To prevent your air conditioner from poor performance or not working at all we have answered some common questions below to help save you repair costs this summer. Q. IT DOESN’T TURN ON? A. Check the switchboard […]

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 […]

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 […]

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%                  […]

Australians are again being drawn to inner-city living, and the surge of interest is delivering a shot in the arm to CBD markets just when it’s most needed. PropTrack reports that the total number of realestate.com.au searches for rentals in capital city CBDs in the first 10 weeks of this year was 27 per cent […]