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Posted in COVID impacts

NSW Rental Bond Board Provides Rental Market Insights - Moving In and Moving Out.

In NSW 34% of households live in rented accommodation, nationally the figure is slightly less at 32% up from 27% in 1997/98. The NSW Rental Bond Board affords h...

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Posted in COVID-19

Rental Market In NSW Reveals Wider Housing Market Trends

Rental markets are currently by their very nature more volatile than the owner occupier housing market. For one simple reason; it’s usually easier and quicker t...

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Posted in COVID-19

Pointers for Today's Coronavirus Property Market

As we adjust to the impacts of Covid-19 we’ve seen a number of wide ranging trends in the "coronavirus property market." While activity has bounced around, peop...

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Posted in COVID-19

From How're Going Mate To Are You Ok Mate...How COVID-19 Will Change Our Cities and Us.

Over the past few weeks I looked at a range of topics linked to COVID-19, mainly from the long-term perspective of residential property. However, a more ambitio...

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Posted in COVID-19

How Might COVID-19 Change the Built Environment

Outside of the direct health issues and the impact on the economy, how COVID-19 might change the built environment, and that very much includes housing, has bee...

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Posted in Colliers Residential

The Colliers International First Home Buyers Guide | 2020 Update

The Colliers International First Home Buyers Guide aims to explain the home buying process, so that you can enter the market with confidences, especially in the...

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Posted in First Home Buyers

First Home Buyer Stamp Duty Exemptions for Up to $800,000

The NSW State Government has announced that First Home Buyer Stamp Duty exemptions will be available for new homes up to $800,000. In a very welcome move from t...

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NSW Residential Wrap Edition 1

Introducing the latest Residential update in a new format called The Residential Wrap. This publication provides a detailed overview of current residential proj...

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Posted in COVID-19

The Post COVID-19 Economy

Having looked at the possible impacts of changing population and demographic trends as a result of COVID-19, it logical to now examine some of the key post COVI...

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Posted in COVID-19

POST COVID-19 - The Impacts of Population

Population and property are an inseparable duo, both totally intertwined, so much so that what impacts one will always impact the other. Now in the face of COVI...

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Posted in COVID-19

Driven by Technology: How Might Property Markets Evolve – Post COVID-19

History always reminds us that ‘technology’ powered by human innovation is one of the greatest enablers of change and there are plenty of examples. Think of sim...

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Posted in COVID-19

Home Post COVID-19

Perhaps the biggest question on many of our minds today is what could the world or Australia look like post COVID-19? There are a number of options although the...

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Posted in Property Markets

Post COVID-19 - How Might Property Marketing Respond

As we start to see early and welcome signs of easing restrictions, including social contact, associated with COVID-19, our thoughts are naturally focused on wha...

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Posted in Apartment Development

Canberra's Apartment Market - Reviewing Park Avenue To Understand the Evolving 'Civic'

Like most other modern-day urban markets across Australia and the globe, Canberra residents and investors share a strong attraction to the appeal of CBD living....

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Posted in Apartment Development

Canberra's Apartment Market - Examining The Parks, Redhill

We might still think of Canberra as a relatively new city however, its history spans more than 100-years. This heritage extends beyond political intrigue and co...

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Posted in Property Market

Should I Buy An Apartment Now? That's a Big Question...and Here Are Some Answers

"Should I buy an apartment now?" In the course of my career, this is a question I’ve been asked so many times I’ve lost count. However, as you might expect it’s...

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Posted in melbourne

Melbourne's Apartment Marketing - Super-Towers & Paris Chic

Like its sister-market Sydney’s CBD, the Melbourne City apartment market while perhaps looking somewhat different in terms of building style, offers remarkable...

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Posted in Podcast

Project and Real Estate Marketing with Peter Chittenden

"How to maximise gross realisation, play the long game and know when to say no.” Residential Project and Real Estate Marketing champion Peter Chittenden shares...

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Posted in Apartment Developments

Sydney's Apartment Market - One size no-longer fits all cont.

Having earlier given a brief overview of the apartment markets in the Sydney CBD, Northern Beaches and Eastern suburbs, this week I’m turning my attention to th...

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Posted in North Sydney

Exploring North Sydney, Sydney's Most Progressive Real Estate Market - Episode One

The North Sydney real estate market is proving to be one of Sydney’s most progressive, with rapid changes occurring in the last 5 years to the precinct’s skylin...

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Posted in newcastle

Newcastle Housing Market Highlights

Recently in one of our major newspapers there was a headline that read: ‘House prices up $300,000 in areas leading Sydney rebound’. Just 12-months earlier anoth...

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Posted in new apartments

Sydney's Apartment Market - One Size No Longer Fits All

Apartments have been a part of Sydney’s housing fabric for at least 120 years and as might be expected architectural styles, locations and values have been cons...

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Posted in housing supply

An Update for Residential Property Investors and Managers

This week I’m briefly across two different topics, the first covers new laws that will impact both residential property investors and managers. The second takes...

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Posted in rental trends

Looking Behind Housing Rental Market Trends

On a regular basis I always find value, even some inspiration in looking at the general trends that lay behind the detailed statistics published by the NSW Rent...

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Posted in Off-the-plan sales

Three Key Real Estate Regulations for 2020

The 2020 new year starts with three key real estate regulations impacting real estate agents, off-the-plan sales and tenancy regulations. All three have the pot...

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Posted in Infrastructure

Lagging Infrastructure Investment, Immigration and Population Growth Impact On Supply

There’s a lack of innovation, vision and infrastructure investment, that has for many years lagged behind both immigration levels and natural population growth....

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Posted in Immigration

Residential Property Market 2019 Towards 2020

It’s an under-statement, but none the less true that the residential property market is dynamic and driven by so many variables, that’s what makes it such a gri...

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Posted in Apartment Design Trends

2020: The Year Ahead - Apartment Market 'Quality,' That's a Tricky One!

Predictions always require some degree of vision. Pondering the shape of the residential property and apartment market in 2020, the idea of 20/20 vision springs...

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Posted in baby boomers

Urban Shapes & Futures: Examining Suburban Development

This week I’m sitting back and taking a birds-eye view of some interesting topics that are, or could influence future urban development, leaving behind some of...

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Posted in finance

2019: Residential Property - The Year in Retrospect - Part 2

Following last week’s retrospective around some of the big external factors that were predicted to influence the residential market 2019, I continue that theme,...

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