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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

Market Trends

A Complex but Positive Outlook Emerges for 2020. Australia’s residential property markets should reflect carefully on a combination of positive events that migh...

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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

Market Fog Lifting!

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 Sydney’s New CBD Centres

Meet Sydney’s New 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...

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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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Posted in Interest Rates. Affordability

The Great Australian Dream Is Still Alive

For many of us, including pollsters and some commentators, the result of Saturday’s Federal Election came as a surprise. However, I for one was not that surpris...

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Posted in Legislation

How Proposed Off The Plan Contract Legislation Will Impact Developers

We sat and spoke with Ian Bennet and Dennis Vertzayias from Colliers International to get their views on the proposed legislation changes. In November 2017, Vic...

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North Sydney Development Sites Diversity & Quality

A broad description of Sydney’s North Shore is a spine of attractive and varied suburbs running in a ribbon that zig-zags along the Pacific Highway from the Nor...

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Trophy Lower North Shore Site - Masterplanned Community

TROPHY LOWER NORTH SHORE – MASTPLANNED APPROVED FOR 460 APARTMENTS Colliers International are thrilled to announce the sale of one of the most significant devel...

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Posted in Housing trends

Today's First Home Buyer

Owning your own home still remains a goal for many Australians and first-time buyers represent about 18% of total home loan lending. As the market has become mo...

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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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