Hotspots

Reports, statistics and analysis from experts on the Australian property market.
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Hotspots • 15 Sep 2011
Affordable property sales to slump in 2012
Property sales in the sub $500,000 range are expected to hit a wall next year, as the government removes certain first time buyer stamp duty concessions.
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Hotspots • 13 Sep 2011
First timers eye market return
First time buyers are expected to make a return to the property market before the end of the year in a bid to beat the loss of stamp duty concessions.
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Hotspots • 12 Sep 2011
'Economic tsunami' to swamp Aussie property prices
An ‘economic tsunami’ would undermine world markets and send Australian property prices back to levels not seen since the late 1990s, an American economic forecaster...
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Hotspots • 12 Sep 2011
Sun shines on auctions
Sydney’s property market gathered pace at the weekend, suggesting the traditionally hot spring selling season has now officially begun.
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Hotspots • 09 Sep 2011
Buyers eye return to property market in spring
Interest rate stability and improving economic growth should send more buyers back to the real estate market this spring, RP Data reported in its most recent blog.
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Hotspots • 08 Sep 2011
First timers in race against the clock
First time buyers in New South Wales are set to swarm the property market in a bid to beat the state government’s newly announced stamp duty concession cut-off date.
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Hotspots • 08 Sep 2011
Units popular but house is still king
While unit prices have risen at a faster pace than houses over the last 12 months, new research has revealed that the house is still king when it comes to property...
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Hotspots • 07 Sep 2011
Brisbane property market slumps
Brisbane has trumped Australia’s other capital cities to record the biggest drop in property values over the last 12 months.
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Hotspots • 06 Sep 2011
Investors wait cautiously
Investors and home buyers have made it clear they will take a “wait and see approach” to buying property, with new data showing mortgage demand slumped 17 per cent...
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Hotspots • 06 Sep 2011
Top NSW suburbs revealed
The inner west suburb of Abbotsford has been named as one of the state's best performing housing markets.
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