Here are our top five upfront fees buyers are expected to pay (aside from the deposit). These fees should be factored into your buying budget…
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4 Strategies To Help You Achieve Your Property Goals in 2022
Buyers are kicking off 2022 with a bang, despite the turbulent growth in house prices we saw at the end of 2021…
Continue readingCBA Forecasts a 10% Drop in House Prices in 2023
It seems our ‘smoking hot’ property market is cooling due to higher borrowing costs and ‘natural fatigue’, says CBA…
Continue readingA Beginner’s Guide To Buying A Home To Renovate
Are you a first homebuyer or investor looking to spend less now to make more in the future? With some quality fixer-upper houses coming on the market, now is as good a time as any to buy a house you can renovate over time…
Continue readingAPRA’s Intervention and How It Affects You
Since APRA’s announcement earlier this week, people from various groups have chimed in to discuss how changes to lending requirements may influence and control property buyers’ decisions in the near future…
Continue readingWhat the Mortgage?
Like pulling together the savings to buy your first home wasn’t enough of a challenge, then in come the banks bamboozling you with their jargon. Well, breathe a sigh of relief, in 5 minutes you can learn the key terms you need to know when applying for your home loan…
Continue readingBig cities, is this goodbye?
For a long time, we’ve been drawn to the big city lights. But the COVID-induced work from home life has sure made us re-look at where we can live – and tree changes and sea changes are on the rise…
Continue readingLockdown Projects 101 : Redesigning Your Laundry
Lockdown affords us a little extra time to tackle those wish list projects around the home. So, let’s start with a laundry refurbishment…
Continue readingRents plummet in cities due to COVID
COVID has been a real mixed bag for landlords across the country. While landlords in coastal locations and lifestyle suburbs have tenants knocking at their front doors, landlords in city locations are being forced to lower rents…
Continue readingCOVID lockdowns and the housing market
We’ve all had just about enough of the ol’ lockdown. And as Sydney enters another week, things are feeling a little grim, but the good news is the housing market will keep on keeping on, just in a whole new way…
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