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A big slice of Brisbane’s inner-city Newstead is planned for redevelopment as a $1.5-billion triple tower mixed-use development topped with 1001 build-to-rent apartments. The ambitious proposal to be known as the Newstead Collective has been filed by Brisbane-based Panettiere Developments. It is earmarked for an amalgamated 7440sq m holding fronting Longland, Stratton and Kyabra streets, […]

The average Australian now spends over $30,000 per year on rent, the highest number ever seen in the country. Last month, the median Australian rent surpassed $600 per week for the first time ever, setting a new record high. The median rent has skyrocketed since August 2020, when median rent values were at just $437 […]

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 […]

Brisbane-based developer Chapter Two has unveiled plans at Spring Hill for one of the city’s first office-to-residential conversions. Chapter Two Group bought the 1970s-era Wickham Terrace office block from a long-term owner and will put forward plans to develop five whole-floor apartments, and a two-level penthouse. The building floorplates feature spans of 300sq m of […]

From the end of June, the tax office is digitising their interactions with foreign investors and their representatives. Beginning on 26 June, foreign investors and their representatives will use “online services for foreign investors”, a service tailored to assist foreign investors and their domestic representative manage any obligations related to their Australian investments. According to […]

Shayher Group has filed concept plans for a four-tower “urban village” on a riverfront site occupied by one of Brisbane’s oldest homes, in the Queensland capital’s inner-west. Its masterplan scheme is for a $300-million-plus residential-led mixed-use development with towers rising from 30 to 37 storeys, integrated with a subtropical public plaza. Under the plans, the […]

Perri Stetter, who moved to Brisbane from Melbourne post Covid, was thankful to be accepted in a Toowong unit for $100 more a week more than she was paying earlier. Picture: David Clark. Qld’s tightest rental market on record has triggered renters to take on properties sight unseen to secure them, as a shock report […]

The Gold Coast’s vacancy rate hit a “turning point” at 0.7 per cent, after having eased off for four months in a row, according to SQM data. Rent on the Gold Coast has hit a turning point as vacancy rates ease for the fourth month in a row – with prices set to follow – […]

Sharehouse mates have put in place rules to help cut costs and share the load. Rooms at this sharehouse at 44 Russell Street, West End, are going for $150 a week with bond set at $600, available now. Qld sharehouse hunters are feeling the pinch as soaring costs of living and tight rental markets collide, […]

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, […]

New emergency planning changes will urge home owners to lease secondary dwellings in Queensland over the next three years. As part of discussions at the Queensland Housing Roundtable — billed as an occasion to spur action on housing issues — the state government has detailed plans to remove restrictions on people who can live in secondary dwellings. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Houses in more than half of Queensland’s suburbs are cheaper to buy than rent now, a massive drop in the past year but still dominating national figures. The cost of owning a house versus renting one works out better in over 1,100 Qld suburbs, according to Proptrack’s latest Buy or Rent Report. The result is […]

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 […]

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 […]