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Hotspots • 19 SEP 2017

Vacancy rates on way down, weekly rent rates up

Data from SQM Research has shown nationwide vacancy rates are generally trending down and asking rates are trending up, with Hobart benefiting the most.

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Hotspots • 19 SEP 2017

Home values creep in most capital cities

Home values increased marginally in all but one capital city last week, with Sydney being the only one that recorded a reversal, according to the latest CoreLogic...

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Hotspots • 18 SEP 2017

‘Melbourne has stolen Chinese buyers’: Juwai

More than 40 per cent of all Chinese-buying inquiries in the year to date have been for Melbourne, making the southern city Australia’s destination of choice.

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Hotspots • 15 SEP 2017

Bigger CGT discounts and MIT changes: Government details housing affordability measures for investors

First home buyers aren’t the only ones benefiting from the government’s attempts to make housing more affordable, with larger capital gains tax (CGT) discounts and...

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Hotspots • 15 SEP 2017

Hobart could be the next Sydney, says property market analyst

With both Sydney and Melbourne markets cooling, a property market analyst has said a boom could occur in Tasmania’s capital city soon.

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Hotspots • 15 SEP 2017

Value increases best at top end of town

Research by CoreLogic using the stratified hedonic index shows that the most expensive 25 per cent of properties recorded the greatest value growth over the past year.

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Hotspots • 14 SEP 2017

Changing economic conditions a crisis for unprepared investors

Investors without a hold on their cash flow may face crisis in 2018, according to a chartered accounting firm.

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Hotspots • 13 SEP 2017

Retirement property firm faces lawsuit as sector comes under scrutiny

A leading class action law firm has announced it will be mounting a class action suit against residential property group Aveo after government and media attention on the...

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Hotspots • 12 SEP 2017

WA budget slugs foreign buyers, helps state economy

The Western Australian government hopes to raise $48 million in additional revenue through a 4 per cent surcharge on property purchases made by foreign buyers.

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Hotspots • 11 SEP 2017

Government takes ‘sledgehammer approach’ to new property legislation

A tax depreciation expert explains that the new legislation intending to address housing affordability would be a "sledgehammer approach" to existing investors,...

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