Category Archives: Market Reports

A housing bubble? The outlook for house prices! The Age 17/08/2010

Morgan Stanley’s Gerard Minack has diversified from being bearish about US equities into calling Australian housing a dud investment, a bubble, albeit one that just might steadily deflate rather than dramatically pop.   It’s two months since Reserve Bank deputy … Continue reading

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Weekly Auction & Sales Results, Market Overview, Saturday August 14th 2010

Melbourne auction results 14th August 2010 Continue reading

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Weekly Auction Results 7th August 2010

Melbourne real estate auctions August 2010 Continue reading

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Blairgowrie Property Price Trends

Property Value Guide for Blairgowrie, VIC. 3942 Area Profile The size of Blairgowrie is approximately 6 km².  It has 7 parks covering nearly 18% of the total area.  The population of Blairgowrie in 2001 was 2,132 people.  By 2006 the … Continue reading

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Domain (The Age) – Certified practising valuer the best path to accuracy

By MARY COSTELLO July 6, 2010 If you’ve decided to sell your property, it’s important to have an accurate idea of its worth. The selling price will depend partly on the property itself and partly on the state of the … Continue reading

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Mornington Peninsula one of Australias Hottest Areas for Investment

THE Mornington Peninsula has been named one of Australia’s top 100 investment locations. It is listed in the Australian Property Investor magazine’s third annual “Hot 100” list, published this month. The area is one of only 11 “cluster” hotspots in … Continue reading

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Melbourne house prices fall after 17 months of gains

MELBOURNE property prices have gone backwards after 17 months of strong gains that increased the typical price for a house from $404,636 to $500,000. One of the nation’s most comprehensive property price-tracking indexes shows Melbourne property prices following a national … Continue reading

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Weekly Auction & Sales Results – July 31ST 2010

  Saturday July 31st 2010 Demand improved at this weekends residential auctions with a clearance rate of 71 per cent recorded, an increase from last weeks 66 per cent. This result will provide encouragement and confidence to vendors with homes … Continue reading

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The impact of Eastlink and the First Home Owners Grant

THE completion of EastLink and the first home buyers’ grant has seen property prices boom in Melbourne’s eastern and south-eastern suburbs. The Valuer-General Victoria, Robert Marsh, released his two-yearly general revaluation of 2.6 million Victorian properties, valuing the state’s residential, … Continue reading

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Weekly Auction & Sales Results – July 25th 2010

  The clearance rate from this weekend’s 560 auctions was 67 per cent, a result that is remarkably consistent with the past few weeks indicating that the market has settled at a new level this winter. Buyers continue to have … Continue reading

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