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When selling our home we all want the best price possible, while the buyer is usually after the best deal they can get. However, in the end most houses sell for what I would call fair market value — the price a willing buyer will pay, and a keen seller will accept, given that neither the…
First home buyers will need to move quickly if they wish to benefit from a new government deposit scheme. The Federal Government’s First Home Loan Deposit scheme comes into effect on 1 January next year. The caveat is that there are only enough funds to help about 10,000 first home buyers, which means it really…
Millennials who delay buying their first home are putting themselves at huge risk of being long-term renters. But complaining about a lack of affordability isn’t going to get them anywhere: instead, they need to starting turn attitude into action. Fact is: the number of first-home buyers is dwindling. This is a massive concern, when you…
Okay, so you’ve decided that you’re tired of living in your rental property or with mum and dad. You now want to become one of the millions of Australians who own their own home. So now what do you do? Here are 12 basic steps: 1. Check out your financial position First you need to…
In Australia today, just over 40% of secondary school children and almost 30% of primary school children attend a private school. By contrast, in the UK only 7% of children are privately educated. Our research shows not only do more students travel by car to private secondary schools in Australia, their car trips are almost…
Whether it’s your first, your fifth or even your 15th property, nothing quite beats that feeling of excitement that comes with making the decision to put an offer down on a property. That said, buying property can be a long, arduous journey – which is why the real estate agent who is selling the home…
![Watch out – here come the first home buyers | PROPERTY INSIDERS [video]](https://cdn.propertyupdate.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/first-home-buyers-2-270x200.jpg "First home buyers back but not for long")
It’s quite likely that the number of First Home Buyers (FHB) in the market will soon reach the highest level since the Rudd stimulus over a decade. At that time it was part of the Government’s package to stave off a recession in Australia during the GFC. This time round the FHB incentive was a…
For a while there, it seemed like just about every investor you’d speak to was tapping into their superannuation nest eggs to buy real estate. Seven or eight years ago, as major property markets in Sydney and Melbourne began their last boom cycles, there were four letters on everybody’s lips – SMSF. Self-managed super funds…
Lots of absolute toss is written about the first home buyer in Australia. And the commentary varies in the extreme – from how active they are; to how lazy they seem and that they want everything on a silver platter. And now the Federal government has unveiled their scheme to help up to 10,000 first…
Our segregated cities keep rich and poor as far apart as possible according to demographer Bernard Salt. Writing in The Australian Salt examined the richest and the poorest suburbs in Australia and concluded the poor are being flung to the city’s edges and the bigger the city, the farther the poor are from the rich….
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