Transcript: For buyers searching for a home in Australia’s mining towns, it is as though the nation’s unprecedented mining boom never happened. Median prices in key mining centres in Queensland and Western Australia have fallen to below the average price of more than a decade ago,...
Transcript: Foreign investor activity is set to fall “considerably” over the 2017-18 period, according to the Master Builders Association in its latest building and construction forecast. With foreign buyer-supported apartment commencements in the Sydney market expected to fall from the 2015-16 peak of nearly 50,000 new...
A lot of investors are quick to pass off regional areas as “no-man’s land. But this stereotype is certainly not true. Regional Australia offers an abundance of ideal locations in which people can live, work, play, and invest. In this 8 minute video, Simon Pressley,...
Transcript: With a lot of talk about real estate agent’s commissions, it is interesting to note that there is no one commission in Australia. In most states, it is unregulated which means that agents can charge as much as they can negotiate or sellers can negotiate...
Welcome to our brand-new show. Each fortnight we will turn the spotlight on Brisbane in this 15 minute vlog. Shannon Davis and Kevin Turner will introduce many prominent property luminaries in the series and look at the areas that are worth investigation if you are looking...
Why is there such a difference between principal and interest loans and interest only loans? As Andrew Mirams, our finance expert explains, in most countries about 30% of loans are interest only but it is much higher in Australia and as a result banks are...
Kent Lardner details how to find a renovation property but more importantly how VIEW helps to ensure you do not overcapitalize on the project. Property 360 allows you to re-configure the property by adding a bedroom or a bathroom and then re-valuing the property –...
Kent Lardner explains how VIEW and Property 360 makes searching for a property easier. With so much more information now available to property owners and buyers, how we search for accurate price estimates and properties to buy has changed. Hear the searching tips. ...
Without lowering the value of all existing housing, it is difficult to see how we can make housing more affordable, but View's Kent Lardner has some thoughts on what we could do. He draws on his knowledge of what happens in some countries like China. ...