Property powerhouse John McGrath says there's only one place in all of Australasia to be buying real estate right now, and that's in South East Queensland. "Right now, you can lock in the cheapest money you have ever been able to borrow.......
South East Queensland Property Sector is showing positive signs of picking up again after the Global Financial Crisis hit it seven years ago. There has been a turnaround in tourism and construction with net jobs growth also picking up.......
Cranes on the skyline of Brisbane and the Gold Coast are a healthy sign of a growing economy. In 2012 there weren't too many cranes across both cities skyline which obviously indicate a very sluggish economy.......
. Every year Australians enjoy around $36 billion worth of tax breaks on their family home while at the same time enjoying tax breaks on superannuation payouts, combined with negative gearing.......
. . This is an interesting article written by Angus Geddes who is the chief executive at Fat Prophets. After seven fallow post-GFC years, Gold Coast property is possibly poised for a fresh boom.......
. Brisbane and the Gold Coast are without a doubt a buyers market According to recent sales figures and research data delivered by CoreLogic, home values rose in Brisbane in both the last month of 2014 (0.8%) and in the final quarter (1.8%).......
. There are strong signs of positive growth movement in the property sector in South East Queensland with Brisbane and the Gold Coast both showing strong construction gains in the high-rise unit plus housing sectors.......
. . The HIA survey of Australia's largest builders shows a second rise for sales in New Homes occurred in November 2014 with Queensland leading the way at 16% growth.......
. ASIAN hotel giant Banyan Tree is buying a Surfers Paradise apartment tower in a "knockdown" move that will allow it to potentially treble the size of a planned $125 million beachfront development. Banyan, which this year paid $11.......
. . Chinatown Gold Coast is currently under construction with $6.8 million being invested in the precinct at Southport just north of Surfers Paradise which boasts a thriving multi-cultural hub.......
. The Brisbane-based company-Tritium recently announced it will launch a Fast Cities Network initiative which is a proposal to have a main road network for Electric Vehicles-EV in Queensland Australia.......
. First Home-buyers and Generation-Y lead the charge with Foreign-buyers According to the results of our annual Housing Affordability Sentiment Index (HASI) 60% of Australians believe their household savings are better now than in 2012.......
. The Sea Pearl Hotel concept was designed by Professor Jianping Zheng, who is the creator ultra-modern development projects in China over the past 30 years.......
. According to the latest RP Data report for January November 2014 home and unit prices in Sydney and Melbourne are up.......
. . The new resort tower includes a six-star luxury hotel with restaurants and bars including excellent outdoor areas. The face lift will give a complete transformation to the existing 592-room hotel and facilities.......
. . The first retail stage of the massive Coomera Town Centre which is due to be built right beside Dream World and the Coomera Railway Station has been given the green light by the Gold Coast Council, City Planning Committee.......
. The latest figures reveal by RP Data-Rismark June Hedonic Home Value Index shows values for Brisbane going up by 7% during the past year and 1.3% during June alone.......
. . A new 104 storey high-rise apartment building is proposed for Southport on the Gold Coast just 1 hour's drive from Brisbane The development is planned to be a mixed-use with a resort and residential component and is to be built on a 1.......
. Queensland has new Real Estate Legislation, which includes the abolishment of maximum commission rates and warning statements. Separating the Property Agents and Motor Dealers Act has meant the property industry now has specific individual legislation.......
. The Cruise Ship Terminal planning project on the Gold Coast is moving forward with City Councillors voting in favour of the project 9 to 6 with the preferred developer being ASF Consortium.......
. Australian business confidence is recovering with an increase of 3.3 points from February to a score of 120.6 putting business confidence back above levels preceding the federal election in August 2013.......
. Australian Finance Group (AFG), Australia's largest mortgage broker, says two in five new home loans in March were processed for investors.......
. Home prices have surged in March which is a sign that the boom in the property market is continuing. Prices surged by 2.3% last month over Australia's eight capital cities to take the total growth for the first quarter to 3.......
. Building is expected to start in 2015 on the Commonwealth Games Village on the Gold Coast and it will be a highly sought address after the Games, Queensland's premier says.......
. Two Brisbane-based start-ups took first and second prize at the recent Oz-APP awards, among 200 other entries which came from the Asia Pacific region.......
. The ANZ has predicted that Asia's financial system will be larger than the US and Europe combined by 2030 due to the liberalisation of China's financial system which will unleash a flood of capital into global bond and equity markets.......
. While Brisbane values have been soft for some time, the city is tipped to be ahead of the pack in 2014, according to the National Australia Bank residential property survey. The NAB survey predicts an increase in house values of 6.......
. Recently the major banks have reduced their fixed rates, including National Australia Bank and St George who last week announcing cuts.......
. . "First comes the price rises, and then the exodus" is what demographer Bernard Salt from KPMG is expecting to see.......
. . Goldman Sachs has lowered its Australian dollar forecast for the next 12 months to US80 as it tips a decline in the terms of trade, less supportive capital flows, concerns about Chinese financial conditions and a further cut in interest rates.......
. According to the Housing Industry Association's (HIA) the national outlook is set to improve right across the housing industry and is expected to continue throughout 2014.......
. It's obvious that an entire generation of Australians are being priced out of the property market, and many will face the sad reality of life renting Australian properties from their Chinese landlords.......
. . Australian consumers are spending more and saving less which has helped the economy grow by a stronger than expected rate in the last three months of 2013 and with growth at a seasonally adjusted 0.8% taking the annual growth rate to 2.......
. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has left official interest rates on hold at today's meeting Rates have now been steady since the decision by the RBA in August last year to cut rates to a 60 year low of 2.......
. One of Australia's leading and most respected demographers Bernard Salt says a jump in population growth will drive property market gains.......
. The overwhelming enthusiasm for Australian Property Real-Estate by wealthy Asian investors is continuing as they buy up large amounts of free-hold property.......
. The Queensland businessmen building their own privately-funded public airport have a simple message for Sydneysiders debating the need for a second airport ''just get on and do the thing''.......
. According to new research from Bankwest, Australia's demand for medium density housing is now at its highest recorded level. The Bankwest Housing Density Report shows that a record 43.......
. New figures show that rural areas are seeing higher demand and strong price growth in property real-estate prices than growth in Sydney and Melbourne.......
. Over the next 20 years there is expected to be 50 extra skyscrapers and just 7% of the city's land mass will be impacted by this development with 40% of the city remaining devoted to green space.......
. Canada's government has made an abrupt decision that could have repercussions for Australia's residential property market.......
. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Residential property prices in each of Australia's capital cities rose in the December quarter of 2013.......
. According to a recent study by financier Bankwest, Australia's love of medium density housing is running hot.......
. . Minutes from the latest Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board meeting indicate the cash rate will remain unchanged for some time after the board pointed to an extended period of stability in interest rates.......
. Added buyer activity from the southern states, and in particular Sydney and Melbourne, is pushing up prices in the Brisbane Gold Coast real estate market.......
. New research has shown that Australian retirees are more active than their global counterparts when it comes to investment advice for the younger generations.......
. UBS AG (UBSN) Switzerlands biggest bank, is entering Australia's property market to invest as much as AU$10 billion over the next five years.......
. ASF China Property Consortium has been selected as the preferred developer of the Broadwater Marine Project, with designs showing a cruise ship terminal just inside the Seaway near Surfers Paradise.......
. . Australia's economic growth is expected to pick up pace this year thanks to a lower exchange rate and stronger activity in the housing and retail sectors, according to the latest forecasts from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).......
. China's cabinet recently imposed new controls on the nation's shadow-banking industry, targeting off-the-books loans.......
. The Gold Coast economy continues to improve with confidence and cash being injected from all areas of national and international investors.......
. The strongest Australian East Coast Property Market over the next three years is likely to be South-East Queensland as all of the indicators are in place, plus this view is supported by a range of industry figures and property analysts.......
. According to Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data, throughout 2013 there were 177,418 residential dwelling approvals, which was the greatest number of approvals since January 2011.......
. A new wave of Generation Y investors is entering the property market and many are using negative gearing as their way to achieve long term goals They are obviously using their brains instead of their hearts (emotions) when buying property.......
. The Reserve Bank of Australia has today kept the cash rate at 2.5%, highlighting which hopefully signals an improved outlook for the Australian and Global economies.......
. The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that the home loan market strengthened amid low interest rates in November but with first-home buyer activity falling to 12.3% nationally, the previous low was 12.5% in October.......
. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative US think tank, has once again named Australia as third freest nation in which to do business, putting Australia just behind Hong Kong and Singapore, and above New Zealand and Taiwan in fourth and fifth place.......
. Over the third quarter of 2013 RP Data recorded 69,949 residential property re-sales nationally with 88.......
. A national digital system to formalise property sales, known as PEXA, is being rolled out around the country in 2014 and Queensland is likely to get on board by the end of the year.......
. New Home sales grew by 7.5% in November quarter, according to figures released by the Australian Housing Industry Association (HIA) More than 7000 new dwellings sold during the month, a level not seen since May 2011.......
. Chinese investors have spent approximately Aus$5.3 Billion Dollars on Australian real estate in the financial year 2012/13 And according to the Foreign Investment Review Board, Mainland Chinese investment has escalated by 75% over the past two years.......
. Australian homes remain among the biggest in the world but the average floor size has fallen to an 11-year low. The shift from building bigger homes is a profound one and illustrates how Australia's demographics and lifestyle drivers continue to change.......
. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the latest figures which indicate Australia's population is set to double to 46 million by 2075. Short term projections show Australia's population nearing 26 million by 2020 and 29 million by 2030.......
. Australia's Productivity Commission is putting forward the possibility of lifting the aged pension threshold to 70 years so this is a warning to get serious about saving for retirement.......
. The head of the World Bank says growth in the global economy is proceeding in a positive way but there's still lot of work to be done to make sure it lasts.......
. The Chairman of Herron Todd White Valuer's Gavin Hulcombe recently said that real estate across the Gold Coast and Brisbane markets will continue to recover from the low values and sale numbers of the past half-decade.......
. The annual report on the foreign ownership of land was tabled in State Parliament showing overseas buyers are increasing their stake hold in Queensland Australia.......
. Australia's largest solar farm has been given the go-ahead, the 20-megawatt Royalla solar farm will be built on land beside the Monaro Highway in Tuggeranong, bounded to the west by the Rob Roy Nature Reserve.......
. Queensland Australia seen as low risk to invest in both business and individual options China's population is expected to peak at 1.5 billion by 2030 and decline over the second half of the 21st century to approximately 1.1 billion.......
. Gold Coast Cruise Ships for Surfers Paradise Australia coming soon A majority of Gold Coast City Council have decided to continue with the Broadwater Marine Project.......
. Australia could enjoy agriculture boom or lose it to water poisoning Australia could enjoy an agriculture boom that would carry the economy into the next century as the mining boom recedes, industry heavyweight Donald McGauchie has said.......
. Rival superannuation lobby groups put aside their differences, with the $1.......
. Single women make up 18% of homeowners, compared with 10% of single men Recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures showed that across the age groups more women than men own their own home.......
. Young families seeking affordable housing and a warm climate are driving population growth in Queensland's beautiful Gold Coast region.......
. Gold Coast Airport is helping with a tourism revival in Queensland, new figures show. Both domestic and international visitors are returning to south-east Queensland with International visitors numbers jumping by 19.......
. Australia needs to increase property development and construction and it should address finance issues immediately, and in particular valuation methods.......
Treasury forecast Australia's population at 36 million by 2050 That means Australia needs to build around 200,000 homes a year, but the annual rate of home construction is now just 150,000 The official cash rate set by the Reserve Bank is at the historic ......
. Australian Housing demand rising the fastest in 3 years thanks to population growth The annual population growth in Australia increased to 1.75% over the December 2012 quarter on the back of higher migration rates and a record number of births.......
. Queensland cashed-up tourism investors in Brisbane with $ Billions More than 100 local and international investors, developers and financiers recently converged on Brisbane to preview a portfolio of tourism investment opportunities.......
. Queensland planning legislation to be improved Less red tape, streamlined processing and a reform to infrastructure charges are set to overhaul the state's planning laws and speed up development in Queensland, according to the state's Deputy Premier.......
. The baby boomer generation makes up the largest number in the Australian population and this is causing a major strain on government resources.......
Low Australian Dollar good for FIRB approved Properties Real-Estate As turbulence in global currency markets continues, the Australian Dollar is stabilising and giving foreign investors great options and variety in the Australian real estate sector.......
