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20/08/2010

City Principals - Rodney Mendes

City Principals Group @ Head Office
26/8/10 3-5pm

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03/05/2010

Houses still driving capital growth in Sydney

With some reports that growth in unit prices around the country has been outstripping that of house prices recently, it's interesting to look at how units have been performing against houses in Sydney in the past quarter or two and over the longer term.

First, we're talking only about capital...

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16/04/2010

Keeping rents in perspective

While the market is generally good for rental property owners at the moment, it is easy for (usually novice) investors to think the sky is the limit when tenants are competing over properties and rents are still increasing. But the rules of successful property management still hold true.

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15/04/2010

NSW prices to continue to strengthen as buyers compete for limited properties

REINSW has rejected as inaccurate, claims house prices in the Sydney market are set to plateau.

“Prices in the Sydney market are heading in one direction and that is up,” said REINSW President Wayne Stewart.

“At the coal face we are seeing more buyers active in the market than we have seen in recent...

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22/02/2010

In properties we trust

The economic downturn over the past year is now a distant memory for most Australians, who believe the housing market is set to take off - again.

The survey conducted by the Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia (MFAA) and BankWest found that almost three in...

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22/02/2010

Investor loans surge as first homebuyers head for the exits

Investors have become the main driving force of the property market following a mass exodus of first homebuyers.

According to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the total value of loans taken for investment purposes climbed by 2...

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22/02/2010

The Case For Reform

While OFT advised that the Bill would not be introduced into NSW Parliament until 2010, they gave stakeholders little more than one month to make submission in relation to the Bill – a Bill which proposes some of the most radical changes in decades to the control and management of hundreds of thousands of rented residential properties in NSW. <...

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10/12/2009

Australia leader in global housing market recovery

While housing markets in the world’s leading economies embark on the slow road to recovery, Australia has emerged one of the top performers.

Of 27 countries...

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09/12/2009

Sydney’s rental vacancy rate has risen to its highest level in more than 2 years but it isn’t all good news, according to the latest data released by the REINSW.

The percentage of available properties in Sydney now stands at 1.6%, an increase of just 0.3% compared to the previous month’s results.

The rental vacancy rate for...

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07/12/2009

Proportion of homes with mortgages on the rise

The proportion of Australian households currently mortgaged has increased to 35%, up from around 30% a decade ago, a new report from securities firm CommSec has revealed.

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