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  • Median for Sydney House Asking Price Tops $1,060,000

    In most of the capital cities of Australia, the number of residential property listings went up  in March of this year, but Canberra and Melbourne experienced an unseasonal fall in the listings. On a national scale, the number of unsold listings rose to 1.8% from February 2015, or roughly 358,167 unsold properties as of March…

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  • Consider using a Buyer’s Agent

    A buyer’s agent is someone that acts as a middleman between property buyer and the real estate agent. In the market, sellers are eager to close out the deal with the highest price possible for any given property while buyers need to lock down the price at the lowest possible. If a property seller needs…

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  • Housing Boom is more Fiction than Fact

    A new research, done by the Housing Industry Association, shows the different housing conditions in different cities other than Sydney and Melbourne. The prices in Sydney have gone up by 19.3 per cent in real terms between 2010 and 2014, but they’ve only grown by 16.0 per cent in real terms during 2005 and 2014.…

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  • Sydney Dubbed “Extreme Sellers’ Market”

    Best-selling market is an understatement when you’re talking about Sydney’s hot market. In fact, it’s now known as “extreme seller’s market” as dubbed by a new report. The latest Commonwealth Bank/CoreLogic Home Buyers Index (HBI) discovered that the number of new mortgages being processed by the CBA outpaced the number of properties advertised for sale…

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  • Sydney’s Housing Shortage Is Set To Increase Further

    More People need More Houses I recently read an article on the Your Investment Property Website about some fascinating research from the Property Council of Australia. The researchers found that the population NSW grew by 109,000 people last year alone, and 5 years before that the Greater Sydney population increased by as much as 326,568.…

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  • The Rising Sydney Rents and Housing Prices

    You read the title right: Sydney rents and prices continue to go up. House prices in Sydney increased by 4.1% over the last quarter and unit prices are also going up by 3.1%. Over the past year, Sydney house prices went up by 19.97% with unit prices going over a sedate rate of 11.56%. Long…

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