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Finance • 22 OCT 2022
WA approves home owner insurance reforms
The McGowan government doubles its maximum payouts for home owners affected by builder insolvencies.
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Hotspots • 22 OCT 2022
Qld government doubles Housing Investing Fund to $2bn
The Queensland government will bolster its Housing Investment Fund (HIF) to $2 billion, effectively doubling the financing for the building of 13,000 new dwellings in...
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Finance • 21 OCT 2022
Buying a 2nd home: How does its equity work?
Everybody wants to be in the best possible financial position when buying a home.
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Hotspots • 21 OCT 2022
Investors eye out these 10 suburbs across the Gold Coast
Despite a highly uncertain period, these 10 suburbs on Queensland’s Gold Coast are proving to be attractive choices for interstate investors.
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Hotspots • 21 OCT 2022
Investor groups sit out housing summit as Qld government skips out invite
Two lobbying groups are calling out the state government for excluding investors from a housing summit aimed at solving Queensland’s accommodation crisis. 
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Hotspots • 19 OCT 2022
How our climate future will dictate city design and home construction
“We need to change the way we think about a street,” was the message Singaporean architect Mun Summ Wong delivered in Knight Frank’s annual wealth report.
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Tax & Legal • 19 OCT 2022
Relaxation of planning regulations to be raised in Qld summit
With the ongoing supply shortage taking centre stage in the upcoming Queensland housing summit, a property developer is lobbying for the relaxation of planning...
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Hotspots • 19 OCT 2022
Australians yet to wake from ‘Great Australian Dream’
New data has indicated Australians have hit snooze on the alarms looking to break them from the Great Australian Home Ownership Dream.
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Hotspots • 19 OCT 2022
Why subdivisions should be on the agenda if you own property in these 10 suburbs
Victoria has trumped the rest of the country as the state with the most suburbs with the greatest subdivision potential, boasting 80 per cent of the top 10.
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Hotspots • 19 OCT 2022
80% of Australian markets experiencing downturn
New analysis from CoreLogic has found that a staggeringly large portion of Australia’s 3,027 capital city house and unit markets experienced value declines during the...
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