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Posted in Security

Buyer Motivation

This week I’m turning my comments away from all of the endless market commentary focused on prices, values, supply and interest rates, leaving behind almost eve...

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Posted in Infrastructure

Continued Investment in Sydney’s Infrastructure

With the conclusion of the NSW State Election and the re-election of the The Liberals and Gladys Berejiklian Government we turn towards what is to come. In thei...

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Posted in Federal budget

Is 2019 a Good Time to Buy?

There’s no getting away from the fact that house and apartment prices are falling across most Capital Cities. It’s by no means a uniform pattern across all mark...

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Posted in Federal budget

The Infrastructure Budget

Over the past few years I’ve opted to save my Federal budget comments until after the first flurry of media has been published. 2019 is a little different becau...

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Posted in Interior design

Interior Design Trends - with Coco Republic

What colour palettes , themes , and textures are making an impact in 2019? Apricot and Terracotta are on the rise as colour trends in 2019 and just as Pantone h...

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Colliers International supports the Property Industry Foundation Yachting Regatta raising $440,000

Colliers International has continued its longstanding support of the event as the Principal Sponsor the Property Industry Foundation’s (PIF) Annual Charity Yach...

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Posted in Facebook

Marketing Dollars - Today's Market

As local property markets become much more competitive and as buyers take on a much more conservative view, the role of advertising and marketing, in particular...

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Posted in population growth

Cities of Tomorrow

The tech giants Google, Apple and Amazon are very keen to be at the forefront of building and planning our future cities and China’s Alibaba has already taken i...

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Posted in NSW Election

NSW Election Results Will Boost Housing Market

Home-buyers and sellers, in fact the entire housing market, hate uncertainty and the ‘vacuum’ created in the lead-up to the NSW election was a negative, but no...

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Posted in population growth

Millennials Looking Beyond 2020

Next year we will enter the 2020’s and as the local housing market starts to emerge from the its current volatility, population demographics I suggest will have...

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Posted in Local Councils

Let's Not Forget The Role of The Local Government

It appears that almost any time there’s any sort of speech or statement from sources like the Reserve Bank or the State Government concerning property markets a...

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Posted in First Home Buyers

First Home Buyers and Lifestyle Investors bolstering the Residential Market - with Dennis Vertzayias

First Home Buyers and Lifestyle Investors bolstering the Residential Market Energised ‘lifestyle investors’ and savvy first home buyers (FHB), who are finally s...

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Posted in Development Sites

Development Sites – Supply is Diminishing - with Guillaume Volz

Three seemingly unrelated events in NSW, combined with a predicted sharp fall in future supply levels of new apartments will, according to Guillaume Volz (Natio...

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Posted in Castle Hill

Castle Hill Sale Press Release and Market Commentary – Jan 2019

Colliers International has sold one of Sydney’s largest site amalgamations for 2018 for circa $40m, proving that despite multiple headwinds during 2018 there is...

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Posted in Central Park

Central Park - Quality a key to success

Colliers International Project Marketing have an impressive track record of successfully delivering mixed-use masterplan projects throughout Sydney . One landma...

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Posted in new apartments

Future-Proofing Your Apartment

"Look for the bare necessities… The simple bare necessities” .. or so the song goes, The Bare Necessities, written by Terry Gilkyson , from the animated 1967 Wa...

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Posted in finance

When To Buy?

Here are two very relevant questions to consider; they came from two buyers I will call Couple A-North and Couple B-South, not very original, but easy to rememb...

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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 Free First Home Buyers Guide for NSW Whether you are a First Home Buyer in NSW, or you are helping your children or a friend entering the property mark...

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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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