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Posted in Traffic

Urban Mobility Evolves

I think it is time we updated, or at least added to the long-time motto of location, location, location with mobility, mobility, mobility. Today urban mobility...

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Posted in First Home Buyers

First Home Buyers Guide to buying off-the-plan in NSW

Download Our Free Guide Whether you are a First Home Buyer, or you are helping your children, or a friend entering the property market, the most important thing...

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Posted in Conveyancing Laws

How Tightened Conveyancing Laws protect off-the-plan buyers

How Tightened Conveyancing Laws protect off-the-plan buyers Buying property off-the-plan can be daunting, especially when it comes to understanding how the fina...

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Posted in The Hayne Royal Commission

The Hayne Royal Commission

The Banking Royal Commission and the Housing Market It’s very likely that the Commission’s findings, associated with some 76 core recommendations will be debate...

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Posted in First Home Buyers

What First Home Buyers are really asking

Current newspaper articles and online publishers have been actively promoting the emergence of First Home Buyers as the forecasted dominant market for 2019. The...

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Posted in Infrastructure

Infrastructure: Metro Norwest

In a continuation of Colliers International’s coverage of infrastructure projects in Sydney, we investigate the Metroline from Sydney’s Northwest. Set to open i...

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Posted in Selling your property

Looking to sell your property?

The Colliers International Residential Division has expanded its services in NSW with Colliers Residential, a specialised team providing sales and marketing ser...

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Posted in Development trends

Time Marches On

This week the Banking Royal Commission will assuredly take most of the available media oxygen and attention and so while the dust settles, I’m taking a much mor...

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Posted in finance

A Flight to Quality

Every homebuyer in today’s market has two very big concerns, finance and quality. This week I will focus on quality as this continues a central theme from my ma...

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Posted in interest rates

2019 Gets Into Full Swing

Project Agenda has been on holidays and we will return to our full format next week as well as introducing some new features including a fresh round of ‘insider...

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Posted in Property

2019 Residential Property - The Year Ahead

Forward Supply Indications According to new research from Domain Group, falling property prices will stabilise in 2019 before moving into a moderate growth phas...

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Posted in Markets in 2019

2019: Residential Property – The Year Ahead – Part Three

Last week’s content was devoted to the complex impact that housing finance is today exerting on Australia’s residential property market. A fortnight earlier the...

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Posted in Stamp Duty

Stamp Duty Reform - What Does This Mean For You?

The NSW Government has proposed reduced stamp duty for residential property, in a move it is labelling ‘the most significant reform in a generation’. Under the...

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Posted in finance

2019: Residential Property - The Year Ahead - Part Two - Finance

Last week I suggested that recently a ‘fog’ had engulfed Australia’s residential property market. Extending that analogy, I feel the question now is how thick a...

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Posted in Sydney Infrastructure

Sydney Infrastructure Projects

There is no question that Sydney is under rapid change and growth, from infrastructure projects, such as the LightRail, WestConnex and Metro line – through to t...

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Posted in Medium Density

The Demand for Medium Density Living in NSW

Most new homes built currently in NSW tend to fall into two categories; traditional freestanding houses and apartments. However, low-rise medium density housing...

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Posted in finance

2019: Residential Property - The Year Ahead

Over the next three weeks I’m going to contemplate how the local residential market might unfold during 2019. Not so much with hard-nosed predictions, as predic...

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Posted in new apartments

Round-Up

New Laws for off-the-plan buyers NSW home buyers purchasing residential properties off-the-plan will benefit from stronger protections under new laws endorsed b...

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Posted in finance

Looking Back 2018 Part Two

This week I’m picking up with the second part of my look back over the events of 2018 and making some comparisons with what predictions were made this time last...

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Posted in 2018

Looking Back 2018

None of us need reminding that 2018 will soon be assigned to history at a time when the residential property market looks at best choppy and at worst chaotic. F...

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Posted in Urban Design

Round-Up

Mixed- Use Developments Mixed-use developments are one of the most popular forms of adding higher density to urban areas and as population pressures continue, t...

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Posted in Townhouse

The Perks of Buying a Townhouse

Latest trends are demonstrating that buying a townhouse is becoming an increasingly popular avenue for homebuyers and investors in Sydney, with townhouses on th...

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Posted in population growth

Heading For 10 Billion & Little Help From The Kids

The world is heading for a population of 10-billion estimated by 2050, so how will we manage? That’s a topic I saw on TED, then I also noticed another interesti...

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Posted in Black Wattle Bay

The New Blackwattle Bay Precinct

This week the State Government of NSW announced the design of the new Sydney Fish Markets – Blackwattle Bay. Expected to be completed by 2023, the new fish mark...

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Posted in Energy

Thursday Round-Up

Best Architectural Projects Across a survey of international architects Metropolis Magazine has published a list of the sixteen best architectural projects of t...

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Posted in interest rates

Buyers Evolve

There’s no shortage of news about the residential market on the front page of newspapers, leading the nightly TV news bulletins and online. I’m suggesting that...

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Posted in Urban Design

Round-Up

Demand Drivers The demand side of the residential property market receives a lot of attention however, there are three simple ideas that more often than not dri...

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Posted in interest rates

Buyer's Advantage

Walking past a local branch of one of the big four banks near my office last week I noticed a big banner which read ‘First Home Buyers Boom’. The word boom imme...

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Posted in Traffic

Thursday Round-Up

Green Square Boost As Sydney’s population density increases inner city infrastructure is always under the spotlight. Green Square will soon be one of the most h...

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Posted in Real Estate Marketing

AI and Real Estate Marketing

AI and Real Estate Marketing AI or artificial intelligence is a term that’s now common place, and it’s an aspect of modern life that’s impacting both business a...

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