. 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.......
