Queensland had the highest volume of property sale settlements in the September 20211 quarter according to PEXA – the electronic property settlement platform. In fact, Queensland was the only state to achieve positive quarter-on-quarter volume growth according to Pexa’s Property and Mortgage Insights report The impact of the extended lockdowns in NSW and Victoria was…
How has Covid changed the way you are working? We know more and more Aussies are working flexible hours and more are now working from home. Recently LinkedIn’s Canadian Workforce Report confirmed that remote work may be here to stay, and could even be the norm in a few industries. I’d be surprised if the…
Has Covid made you think of moving home? Well..as millions of Australian workers stretch into their fourth month of working-from-home, many have a relocation on their minds, according to new research by Finder. A nationally representative survey of 678 Australian workers revealed that 33% – equivalent to 4.3 million adults – would move homes if…
It’s been a difficult 18 months for Australia’s economy, and one which has seen investors sit out of a soaring property market as the coronavirus pandemic smashed our shores. But it seems there has been a turnaround in sentiment with lending data showing that investors have begun to pile back into the market. Investor loans…
When property prices leave even the most seasoned real estate professionals shaking their heads in disbelief, you know you need to pay attention to what’s going on. A leading panel of experts at a recent AltX webinar suggested that traditional property valuation metrics and sales performance no longer provide an accurate prediction of property sales…
In a July 30 tweet, Greens leader Adam Bandt claimed house prices are rising by $1,200 a day, warning that younger workers have been locked out. Is he right? Well ABC fact-checked him and concluded he was “overreaching”. According to the Domain/APM data, the median Sydney house price surged by $106,948 over the June quarter to…
Sure the property markets are booming around Australia, but the rising tide isn’t lifting all ships equally. And the rising tide has left some locations behind. The latest Domain House Price Report shows that while the property boom rages on everywhere, there are eight areas across Australia where median house prices fell over the past year….
New research from Compare the Market has revealed that nearly one in five Australians don’t know the people next door, with some going out of their way to avoid them altogether. In a survey of more than 2,000 Australians, the price comparison website found that although more than half generally speak with a neighbour at…
The last 18 months have been all about adapting, pivoting, and reinventing in a new way of living, particularly when it comes to business. So what does the future spectrum hold? ServiceNow has partnered with Australia’s leading demographer and business analyst, Bernard Salt AM, to explore the history of Australian ways of working and share…
The number of Australians looking to sell their property is rising, especially in some particular suburbs, according to the latest Westpac research. The report found there is an uptick in the amount of Australians thinking about selling their home with four in ten (39%) homeowners planning to list in the next five years, an increase…
