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Real Estate - April 2006

More Feng Shui

April 30th 2006 19:08
As promised, these are some more Feng Shui home design tips. The first set can be found here.

1. Choose a square or rectangular block of land.
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Residential Property Investment Tool

April 28th 2006 07:44
Residex is a company which provides information about the Australian residential market based on statistical information gathered over the last 100 years. Residex products can help investors manage their property portfolios and home buyer and sellers time their trades with reports providing predictions about the top 100 growth suburbs, highest rental demands. Individuals can use the reports to explore specific types of properties, postcode areas, top performing growth areas in metropolitan areas and budget metropolitan areas, as well as a profiler for a given postcode.


For valuers, agents, researchers and market analysts Residex offers software which manages property statistics and sales that have occurred in the past 20 years.
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Housemate Survival Guide

April 27th 2006 07:29
Following on from the previous post about sharehousing, its pretty likely that at some stage there are going to be conflicts to resolve between housemates. The Share Housing Survival Guide is provided by the Redfern Legal Centre and offers brilliant advice for sharehousing conflict resolution between housemates and also between tenants and landlords. This resource provides information about the rights of a renter and covers a wide range of issues for renters from finding a place through to getting evicted or preferably moving out.

The Share Housing Survival Guide provides some great, simply summarized information covering the legal side of several common scenarios and suggested methods of resolution. What to do if a housemate refuses to pay a bill, how to terminate a lease, what to do when a flatmate leaves or moves in and where to go to get help with finances.
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Finding a Flatmate

April 26th 2006 08:59
If you’re looking to for a flatmate there are some terrific resources available on the web. One company is Flatmate Finders. Flatemate Finders is a share accommodation service specializing in Sydney and Melbourne. Rather than a dodgey telegraph pole flyer or a tres brief classifieds article, Flatemate Finder is great way to quickly and efficiently locate flatmates who are going to click. Each flatmate has a detailed profile which can be used to weed out the freaks from the fun and funky depending on your preferences. They even offer a profile matching system for those too busy to flip through profiles. Once, you’ve found some cool flatmates, you can send them an email immediately. Another great feature of Flatemate Finder is that it monitors when people have stopped accessing their profiles. This makes sure that you’re not wasting your time with people who are unavailable.

When using Flatmate Finder you can search by either seeking a home or seeking a flatmate and a general city area. The profiles list the specific location of the home, type of dwelling, who is currently living there (age, gender, employment status, smokers, languages spoken), the weekly rent and payment arrangement, facilities within a 10 minute walk, parking, bedroom size and furniture, pets, availability and a description by the advertisers.
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Top Tier Property Surges

April 25th 2006 08:31
Despite a general slowing of the property market, properties in the high price bracket defy this trend and continue to surge ahead strongly. The demand for expensive housing is thought to be fuelled by the increasing number of people entering the high salary range. Over the last decade the demographic of the domestic shareholder has broadened, probably as a result of internet broking enabling the average joe shmoe to put aside saving into self managed share portfolio. Throw in the strong share market yields over recent years and suddenly there are more people with more cash demanding more luxurious properties. Also thrown into the mix is the rise of corporate salaries. With many top executives earning yearly salaries well into the six figure bracket and receiving hefty awards, bonuses and even payouts its no wonder that there is a greater demand for expensive housing.

A factor which is driving the prices is the disproportionate supply and demand that existing in the upper tier market. Whilst more people can afford luxury property, the supply of such property is not meeting demand. This leaves property buyers in bidding wars to snap up whatever does come on the market, a good position for any seller.
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Working The Slow Market

April 24th 2006 04:09
The Australian property market has been steadily slowing over the past couple years. Although a forecast cash has yet to occur, peak sales and market opportunity have definitely taken a down turn over the last half decade. With this cooling of the market, there is a lot of advice indicating that now is not a good time to sell. This advice has stalled a lot of people from changing residents or trading up property for fear of not getting a worthwhile return on their initial investment.

However, the trade has to be viewed relatively. Whilst a seller may not get the price they believe their investment is worth, the flipside is that monies invested in a new property should be rekindled on a new property investment which by market conditions would also be undervalued.
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Joining the Wharfies

April 21st 2006 01:16
Need a hip, central place to live... try a wharf. No longer the realm of Sydney's homeless, underground dance parties or union disputes, property developers have cleaned up these "seedy" sites of Sydney Harbour and have built up luxury apartment communities. These areas are central to CBD facilities and boast awesome waterfront views. Russell Crowe's got a pad in one of these converted wharfs in Potts Point. Who would have guessed that Hollywood hunting could be as easy as enjoying the complex jacuzzi. If Russ is not your style, or your a member of PETT, People for the Ethical Treatment of Telephones, there's renovated wharfs popping up around Pyrmont.

These places are plum and not expense has been spared with the interiors. All of the apartments in Towns Place have Miele appliances, stone benchtops and reverse-cycle airconditioning and are designed to maximise light and views. Most have harbour and/or city views. All include parking and storage. There is an indoor lap pool, gymnasium, sauna and spa. All this luxury pushes these pads into the pricey price bracket with a one-bedder starting at $855,000 and the premium apartments set at $7mil.
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Hottest Investments West

April 20th 2006 00:59
There's been a lot of press recently about a property boom set for Western Australia. National it is being dubbed as set to become the strongest property market in Australia. This is apparently as a result of a resource boom. For Sydneysiders, investing in property in Western Australia certainly has its advantages. Property prices are certainly in a much more affordable bracket than equivalent properties in Sydney. There is also a growth in development, infrastructure and population in WA's cities which is always promising for ensuring investment returns.

Checkout realestate.com.au and Aussiehomes for a starting point to get the latest scoop in the WA's property market.
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Feng Shui

April 20th 2006 00:16
As promised this is the first installment of Feng Shui for property. Feng shui is also known as geomancy and is the branch of classical cosmology, which gives a guide for to build and design homes in harmony with the elements of the natural environment. The principles of Feng Shui are founded on the belief that where you live and how you allocate and arrange the elements of your home or workplace can significantly affect the harmony of your health, wealth, and happiness. Feng Shui is the study of how energy flows between nature and people and vice versa. This natural flow governs the way we grow, evolve and feel. As all energy is in a state of change this interaction has the ability to change us, sometimes for the better, sometimes not so. It therefore directly affects our quality of life.The theory goes that if you harness the all-pervasive life energy (Chi), you can affect the your well-being. Simple things like placing your furniture the wrong way, using wrong colours, and elemental conflicts (i.e. having the water 'refrigerator' next to the fire 'stove', can create factors that impact negatively on your life.

Here's a brief list of feng shui principles that apply to property and your home,
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Investment Scam Alert

April 19th 2006 00:46
During the 1990s a lot of investors lost a lot of money buying over-priced properties in Queensland. They got caught in a scam known as two-tier marketing, where out-of-town buyers pay more than local buyers, thus creating two tiers of prices – true prices and inflated prices. Apparently, these scammer companies are at it again and back in business throughout Australia.

Companies throughout Australia are almost using the exact procedure used in the nineties. The telephone call about reducing tax, the free seminar, the glib spiv sprouting slick lines about wealth creation while also fostering fear about poverty in retirement. Then comes the free no-obligation in-home consultation, the financial assessment, the trip to Queensland and, of course, the financiers and the lawyers.
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Green Power

April 18th 2006 00:30
It seems NSW is lagging behind in the push to go Green. The Greenpower scheme allows consumers to choose to have their electricity sourced from renewable sources such as wind, solar, water and waste, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. According to the latest Greenpower figures, Victorians and Queenslanders now lead the nation in signing up to Green Power. Queensland is second to Victoria with 64,639 Green Power customers, then NSW with 33,579, SA with 20,217, ACT with 6,363 and WA with 1,127. Why should we be going for Greenpower? Well global warming is a contentious issue with research indicating that global warming is being accelerated by the traditional burning of fossil fuels for power generation.

The scheme is definately having results, Environmental minister, John Thwaites, said Victoria now represents 38 per cent of Green Power customers nationally - and this number is rising by an average of 5,000 per month across the State. He goes on the report, "in the first 12 months of purchasing Green Power, these households will collectively cut greenhouse pollution by 117,000 tonnes each year - the equivalent of removing 27,042 cars from Victoria's roads."
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New Construction Materials

April 17th 2006 00:20
Those clever scientists at the CSIRO have developed pioneering, low-cost and lightweight concrete technology. The technology has lead to the development of a product called HySSIL. According to Dr Swee Liang Mak, who leads the development team at CSIRO, it is 'a revolutionary aerated cement-based product that is as strong as normal concrete but is only half as heavy. It provides up to five times the thermal insulation of concrete and is also impact and fire resistant'. This product adds to a new dimension to the other pre-fabricated concrete products and aerated light weight bricks. The advantage of the HySSIL product over other existing technology is that it is easily recycable and enable faster construction times.

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April 8th 2006 03:43
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Firstly, all posts should be Real Estate related and of interest to our readers


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April 8th 2006 03:43
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April 8th 2006 03:43
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Renters

April 7th 2006 10:16
Starting at the bottom of the property food chain are the renters. I'm a renter and personally I think it stinks. I can't help but feel like I'm getting ripped off and pay off someone elses mortgage. On the plus side, it does enable me to travel around and not get financially or physically tied down. And let face it, when your young, hip shoes and partying with mates always seem like a more attractive budgetory option rather than making housing repayments. Here are a few tips to help with a seemless rental lifestyle,

* Keep all the paperwork in a folder - the tenancy agreement, conditions report, bond and rent receipts and any correspondence with the agent/landlord.
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Holler!

April 7th 2006 02:04
Welcome to my rant about what’s hot and what’s not in the Australian property market. Over the coming weeks I’ll be updating this blog with useful and entertaining information for a wide demographic including the impoverished university student to the professional property developer and everyone in between. I’ll delve into some of the practical sides of property, including renting, loans, taxes, investing and helpful resources. I’ll also look at various properties Australia-wide and focus in on some of the more unusual issues related to property. Can Feng Shui help the property investor? What is the most expensive property in Australia? What are some unusual dwellings people have converted into homes?

We all need shelter, so if figure this is the one blog we can all relate to.
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