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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

  Houses and larger apartments were the biggest drawcard for tenants, reflecting changing requirements as people continue to work from home.   The Domain quarterly rent report also revealed Melbourne was the cheapest place to rent a unit or house in the country. Canberra retained its position as the most expensive city to rent while […]

When selling an apartment, you also need to remember that there may be others exactly the same as yours for sale at exactly the same time. Why would someone buy your apartment rather than the one upstairs? Or the one that’s really similar right across the road? By considering the furniture layout carefully and styling […]

Exterior of 6 Dorchester Street, South Brisbane, where Barbara McCulkin and her daughters Vicki and Leanne disappeared in 1974, Picture: Richard Walker A humble worker’s cottage where a mother and her daughters vanished in one of Queensland’s longest running murder mysteries has come up for sale for $1.4m in original condition. Barbara McCulkin and her […]

Almost 600,000 homes have changed hands across Australia over the past year, which is a 40% increase on a year ago and 25% above the 20-year average, according to CoreLogic data. The biggest increases have occurred in Western Australia and the Northern Territory, which were weak markets for a few years before COVID-19 and are […]

CoreLogic estimates there were almost 598,000 house and unit sales across Australia over the year ending August 2021; the highest number of annual sales since 2004 and a 42% lift on the annual number of sales over the previous 12-month period.  Nationally, the number of dwellings sold over the past year was 31% above the […]

You might be wondering if winter is a bad time to sell you home, but people look for property to buy property at all times of the year. In fact, selling your house in winter can have its own benefits. In this blog post, we share 6 tips for selling your home in winter and […]

Since the start of 2021 we have certainly seen a new wave of buyers into the market, especially in the inner Western Suburbs. With buyer’s desperately searching for their next home, this is contributing to higher than ever demand levels. Many of the recent sales we have seen in the last month were from properties […]

The latest CoreLogic Hedonic Home Value Index shows that from a national perspective, the housing price recovery is well underway. And from a wider economic standpoint, the country is bouncing back faster than expected. Truth be told, Brisbane has weathered the storm better in comparison to the larger markets of Sydney and Melbourne, and in […]

Whilst you may notice the “For Sale” signs being removed to make way for the Christmas decor, and it might seem outlandish to engage in a marketing campaign right before the family tribe arrive, but there are some clear advantages to selling during the holiday season. Keeping in mind that this is the time when […]