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Posted in Marketing

Thursday Round-Up

Building History Builders have a long history in Australia, in fact, Master Builders is Australia’s oldest industry association. Australia’s first Master Builde...

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Posted in property development

Thursday Round-Up

Factory Built Housing Developers and investors in diverse cities worldwide, including Australia are increasingly turning to off-site construction methods to mee...

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Posted in North Sydney

Sydney’s Inner North Neighbourhood Thrives

North Sydney has long been known as Sydney’s second CBD, however that ‘marker’ defies the dynamics and attraction of the area. The wider region has a population...

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Posted in Marketing

Thursday Round-Up

Mopeds One of the flow-on impacts of greater urban density and with some councils reducing the number of car spots available in new projects as been the success...

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Posted in Eastwood

Discover Eastwood’s Diversity and Potential

Eastwood traces its colonial history back to 1792, today it’s a diverse and very popular suburb with lots of open bushlands, an appealing ethnic culture, varied...

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Posted in Aqualuna

Zone Q breaks ground and moves into delivery mode on Aqualuna

Media Release Property developer and investor Zone Q has broken ground on its first Sydney residential project, Aqualuna, a prestige 63-apartment, $155 million...

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Posted in Infrastructure

Weekly Round-Up

Personal Touch Wins the Day In many aspects of marketing and business we hear a lot about the impact of AI, social media, the internet of things and lots of oth...

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Posted in Real Estate Incentives

Incentives in the Property Market

While the goal of homeownership remains almost universal, the role of incentives for home buyers, be they government funded or via incentives from developers, b...

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Posted in cities

Thursday Round-Up

MIPIM MIPIM is one of the largest forums of the international property industry and regularly attracts more than 26,000 participants from over 100 countries, he...

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Posted in Penrith

Penrith Takes Off

Perched on the banks of the Nepean River in the foothills of the Blue Mountains, Penrith traces its colonial history back to 1789 when Captain Watkin Tench expl...

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Posted in Penrith

Thursday Round-Up

ESQ Penrith Strong Demand Penrith is heading into an exciting period of growth with strong demand for new apartments. Last weekend East Side Quarter (ESQ) by CA...

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Posted in Changing Market

A Changing Market Often Requires a Changing Strategy

Interview with Eugene White, Director, Residential Development Sites Q: From your perspective, how would you describe the current residential market conditions...

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Posted in Sydney’s Western Aerotropolis

New Global and Ambitious Cities

Sidewalk Labs is the Google affiliate with the stated goal of ‘reimagining cities to improve quality of life’. It’s an idea and ambition that is already startin...

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Posted in Modern Home Trends

Thursday Round-Up

A Little Bit of Bridge Bling While there’s lots of noise across Sydney with big scale infrastructure projects, a much smaller project has been underway adding a...

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Posted in Big Data

Big Data & Property

Big data appears to be one of those current on trend topics that’s almost impossible not to engage. By definition, what is big data? The term ‘big data’ is rela...

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Posted in Resort living

Why leave home? The rise of Resort-style Apartment Developments in Australia

Why leave home? The rise of Resort-style Apartment Developments in Australia When one shuts their eyes and the word ‘holiday’ is whispered, images of swaying pa...

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Posted in Infrastructure

Thursday Round-Up

Multi-Million Dollar Home Gym It feels like everywhere you look these days there’s a new 24-hour gym opening and many apartment projects sport gym facilities. H...

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Posted in apartment living

Modern Families

Setting aside external factors like interest rates, supply and demand, it is families that drive residential property markets. Families constantly change over t...

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Posted in home loans

Thursday Round-Up

Moving House or Not According to Roy Morgan research 40.7% of Australian’s have been at their current address for 10 years or more. While 17.4% have not moved f...

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Posted in property investment

Title and Security

I think it’s reasonable to suggest that when most people think of property what mainly attracts their immediate attention are factors like location, design, pri...

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Posted in new apartments

Work Starts on New Pymble Community

Construction has commenced on LFD Developments and joint venture partner Tian An’s $115 million Cascade Gardens in Pymble, with the developer announcing the app...

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Posted in property investment

Thursday Round-Up

Foreign Investors Flee the Market The FIRB 2016-17 Annual Report was released this week. The reports showed that residential real estate approvals fell substant...

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Posted in productivity commission

Productivity Commission & our Cities | Part Two

Last week I took a birds-eye view of the Productivity Commission’s (PC) charter and Shifting the Dial , a 5-year productivity review across many of the factors...

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Posted in Investors

Thursday Round-Up

Home Sizes Shrink Big homes are still popular and the appeal of a 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom home with garage space for two cars, on a large 660sqm block is what man...

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Posted in productivity commission

Productivity Commission & Our Cities

First some brief background. The Productivity Commission was created as an independent authority by an Act of Federal Parliament in 1998 however, its roots go b...

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Posted in kitchens

The $5 Million Dollar Real Estate Question – What Do Buyers Want?

Street appeal. The kitchen. The neighbourhood. The bathroom. Searching for an answer to the eternal real estate question – what is the most important factor to...

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Posted in baby boomers

Thursday Round-Up

Baby Boomers not to Blame Research forecasts that millennials are half as likely to own their home at age 30 than baby boomers. They will also spend more on hou...

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Posted in property investment

Property Lending APRA Policy Move Welcome

Only a week ago I asked the question ‘Does it still make good sense to invest in residential property?’ In my post Making Sense of Property Investment I looked...

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Posted in Federal budget

Thursday Round-Up

Budget Highlights Impact of Demographics Tuesday’s Federal Budget highlighted the importance and impact of demographics on our economy, part of which relates to...

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Posted in property investment

Making Sense of Property Investment

Does it still make good sense to invest in residential property? The answer to this question just 12 months ago would have been an all too easy ‘yes’ however, o...

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