The rental growth bandwagon for Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs has come to a bit of a decline. However, the overall growth rate of 0.8% cannot be thought of as portentous because it does not have to do with any fundamental deficit. Jonathan Chancellor for the Property Observer explains the conundrum.
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Do not buy a property in the name of your children
Humans are an inherently generous species. Oftentimes, the thought of gifting a property to your child or buying it in his/her name may have occurred to you.
Rob Balanda for the blog Property Update advises you to resist the idea.
Features That Top The Wish List Of Tenants
There are features tenants might give their right arm for and still others that tenants may not even give a second thought to. Funnily, the fads keep changing and you cannot stick your throat out and make the call.
An elaborate survey conducted in Brisbane by Beesnees has come up with some food for thought for landlords. On what features and renovations should they put their money? An article by Rob Honeycombe marks out the key conclusions from the survey.
Sydney Property Market Gets A ‘Spring’ In Its Stride
The Sydney property market is flush with a rare kind of enthusiasm in anticipation of a bumper spring ahead. Toby Johnstone for the Domain writes that this spring season might witness the maximum number of property sales in recent memory. Low interest rates have brought in a real turnout of buyers from all hierarchies.
Property Investors Wake Up To “High-speed Broadband” Knocks
A recently conducted survey in Brisbane highlighted a trend surfacing all across Australia; tenants give top priority to high-speed internet connections. The initiative of the National Broadband Association (NBN) resonates with exactly the same consumer sentiment. After all, the NBN has come up with a plan which aims to roll out fibre optic cables to 93% of Australian premises by the year 2021.
An estimated amount of A$37.4 billion assigned for the task implies that the government means business. So how does it affect property investors?
Mortgage Rates Lying Safe At Their Historical Average
The ever-sustainable debate continues- Are the ‘bears’ right in being circumspect or the ‘bulls’ correct in being adventurous? Both stick to their principles, the fiscal atmosphere of their times notwithstanding. For instance, both the bulls and bears have remained devout followers of their ideologies despite low mortgage interest rates. The former assume that now is the time to go hook, line and sinker and the latter believe that it is good to play safe as the market may whip up a mortgage crisis anytime.
