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Posted in Investors

Investors Return to Market

Investors are returning to the residential market; their motivation can be linked to a number of factors including very competitive interest rates, the potentia...

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Posted in Apartment design

Australian Housing a Very Brief Memoire Concludes

Last week I started to take a very brief look at the social landscape of some major events and trends that have influenced the Australian housing since the end...

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Posted in housing market

Australian Housing A Very Brief Memoire

Over the next two weeks I’m going to take a very brief journey through the landscape of Australian housing, refreshing my memory of some of the key factors that...

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Posted in Affordability

Why First Time Buyers Are Important

First time buyers are possibly the most important sector of the housing market. That’s a big statement and I think it’s worth considering why. It’s a view that...

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Posted in Infrastructure

Sydney's North Shore Leads Recovery

As Sydney’s auction clearance rate this week topped 80% the North Shore accounted for about 15% of activity. However, it’s worth noting that a high proportion o...

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Posted in new apartments

Buying & Selling

Buy or Rent? Should you buy or rent? It’s a question that often occupies the waking hours and the sometimes-sleepless nights, of many people looking for a home....

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Posted in new apartments

Apartments Are A Well-Regulated Purchase

No matter the asking price, buying an apartment is a big investment both financially and emotionally. Following last week’s suggested check-list of key question...

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Posted in new apartments

Buying An Apartment - 10 Questions

Apartment living offers some great advantages, it’s a housing trend that’s here to stay, and while yes, it’s not for everyone more Australians are increasingly...

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Posted in Infrastructure

Infrastructure Drives Property Demand

Infrastructure is a key feature influencing property demand in Sydney, evidenced by several projects which have achieved strong sales results whilst other subur...

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Auction clearance rates show NSW residential market back on track

The NSW residential market is on the road to recovery, with the current auction clearance rate indicating positive signs for the market. Clearance rate for auct...

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Decoding APRA Home Lending Changes

‘APRA’ may well have been a name that was not very familiar to a majority of Australian homebuyers, that is until recently. Today however, APRA along with inter...

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A new kind of living – a luxury resort style sanctuary, a first for Penrith!

Desire, escape and urban dreaming. Aqua brings together beautiful apartments in a breathtaking resort setting with a standard of design never seen before in Pen...

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Posted in interest rates

Historically Low Interest Rates

t appears that very low interest rates are here to stay, well at least for the immediate and foreseeable future. The Australian housing market has always been c...

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Posted in Randwick

We've Come A Long Way and There's Much More To Come.

Last week I looked back almost 20-years to the release of Paddington Green located in Sydney’s historic Paddington. At the time, this project to my thinking, de...

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Posted in Housing trends

We've Come a Long Way - The Paddington Green Urban Development Success Story

In the introduction to their book ‘City Limits’ authors Jane-Frances Kelly and Paul Donegan comment: ‘Australia is a nation of city dwellers. Many of the joys o...

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Posted in Greater Sydney

Greater Sydney Region Plan Delivers Development Opportunities

According to Greater Sydney Commission, Chief Commissioner, Lucy Turnbull AO, great cities are products of broad and genuine collaboration, which is a theme ref...

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Posted in Property Industry

How has the Australia property market changed since the 2019 election? Is the market freeze over?

For those of us in the NSW Residential Property industry, the first six-months of 2019 will go down as some of the harshest market trading conditions in the Res...

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Posted in APRA

APRA Standards Updated For Home Lending

'APRA’ may well have been a name that was not very familiar to a majority of Australian homebuyers, that is until recently. Today however, APRA along with inter...

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Posted in Q&A

Q&A: Guillaume Volz

Question: Guillaume talk us through what Residential development sites looks like and what you do? GV: Residential developments is an exciting area as it could...

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Posted in Ethos Urban

Local Strategic Planning Statements (LSPS) for Landowners - Why you need to have you say now

Now is the time for Landowners to think strategically about the amendments being made to planning controls in NSW via the Local Strategic Planning Statement (LS...

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Posted in population growth

Cities are Complex Places: Why a Global Approach to Sustainable Urban Design Is Essential

Cities are complex places and even though they have been around for at least 6,000 years we are still working hard to get them just right. Cities and how they f...

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Posted in Housing trends

FIRB Annual Report 2017-2018 Points To Slowing Development

Picking up from last week, the FIRB Annual Report 2017-18 includes this comment; ‘Australia’s foreign investment policy encourages foreign investment in the res...

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Posted in 5 mins with

5 Minutes with Sam Nathan

This month we spent some time with the Residential Director in Melbourne to gain great insight into the current luxury property market in Melbourne and the Coll...

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Posted in FIRB

FIRB Property Investment Trends

Looking back a little over 3-years ago, would be foreign investors in local residential property were the reprobates of the Australian housing market. Foreign i...

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Posted in Market Trends

Australian Housing Market Trends for 2020

A Complex but Positive Outlook Emerges. Australia’s housing market trends for 2020 should reflect carefully on a combination of positive events that might well...

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Posted in Ryde Garden

The New Sydney Northwest Metro Opens

Last month saw the opening of the long-anticipated Sydney Metro – with the first stage of the project - Northwest, opening in May. Stage one has seen the openin...

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Posted in developers

Colliers International's Residential team host Annual Asian Developer Dinner

Colliers International, in partnership with leading prestige property group Ceerose, recently held a VIP Asian Market Developer Dinner to recognise and thank th...

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Posted in interest rates

Residential Property Market Fog Lifting After 2019 Elections

Forecasts and hindsight are both interesting subjects, and that’s equally so when looking at our residential property markets. Not that long ago, just back in e...

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Posted in Northwest

Meet The New Sydney CBD Centres

With the NSW Government planning 33,000 new homes to be built by 2026 in Sydney’s Northwest, it’s creating new CBD hubs outside of the city. The Northwest and t...

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Posted in Residential Property

Any Time Is A Good Time To Buy

Residential property is a long-term view, and at Colliers International we believe if you buy today and do all your planning appropriately then any time is a go...

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