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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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Posted in Traffic

Thursday Round-Up

The Brixel It was bound to happen, a new style ‘brick’ has been invented and yes, it’s controlled by an App. A hi-tech brick for the tech-age. Bricks have been...

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Posted in population growth

Urban Development - Change is Constant

Urban development and change are constant partners and the associated problems and challenges are of a nature that cannot be solved neatly, once and for all. Ur...

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Posted in Urban Design

Thursday Round-Up

Sydney Business There’s always a lot attention paid to Sydney as a liveable city, but there’s an equally important set of numbers driving the city, and that’s a...

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Posted in Infrastructure

Cities After Dark

Last week I looked at the most recent Global Liveability Index for 2018 published by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Vienna topped the leading 10 cities,...

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Posted in Housing trends

Thursday Round-Up

The Most Important Room in the House For property developers and marketing agents one big group of homebuyers to keep in mind is millennials. What might not alw...

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Posted in Infrastructure

Global Liveability Index 2018

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has recently published its Global Liveability Index for 2018. The index has not received as much coverage as might be expe...

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Posted in urban development

Thursday Round-Up

Driver’s Licence or iPhone In the 1970s and 80s it was almost a ‘right-of-passage’ to gain you L-Plates and driver’s license as soon as possible, preferably the...

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Posted in demographics

The Evolution of Apartment Markets

Property markets are never static, like almost all other sectors, the apartment market is always evolving and adapting to new forces. However, we currently have...

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Posted in International House Prices

Thursday Round-Up

House Prices House prices and jumping about as the local market re-adjusts to changes in supply and demand and the evolving finance market. This week here’s a b...

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Posted in Spring Market

Tips for Home Buying During The Spring Frenzy

The normal spring home buying season in Australia kicks off at the very first cherry blossom in September and the frenzy finally winds down around Christmas. Th...

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Posted in Traffic

Urban Life with a 4-Day Week - Some Details

Back on August 21, I made some comments about the possible value and impact of a 4-day week on urban design and city living. My starting point was to suggest th...

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Posted in Affordable Housing

Thursday Round-Up

West Schofields Infrastructure Boost Sydney’s North West is one of the Sydney’s biggest and most important growth regions. Originally focused around Rouse Hill...

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