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Hotspots • 20 DEC 2013
Liverpool buyers turned away
Property market activity in Sydney’s Liverpool is so frantic that buyers are being turned away, according to a major real estate agency.
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Hotspots • 19 DEC 2013
Best rental yields revealed
The 10 suburbs attracting the highest rental yields in the country in 2013 have been uncovered in a new report.
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Hotspots • 19 DEC 2013
Poor performers have best potential
Investors should consider buying in Sydney’s underperforming suburbs, according to an online real estate portal.
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Finance • 18 DEC 2013
Investors warned about wasting ‘rate cut savings’
Cuts to the official cash rate throughout 2012 and 2013 have reduced the ‘typical borrower’s' mortgage repayments by $262 per month, but investors have been...
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Hotspots • 18 DEC 2013
Australians embrace apartment living
More people across Australia will opt for high density living in 2014, according to research by Colliers International.
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Hotspots • 17 DEC 2013
Docklands unlikely to rise
Despite a government project to rejuvenate Melbourne’s Docklands, a leading real estate expert believes local property values will continue to stall.
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Finance • 17 DEC 2013
Fixed rates set to rise further as economic confidence returns
The low interest rate environment will continue into 2014. However, fixed rates will edge higher as economic confidence improves in Australia and overseas, according to...
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Finance • 16 DEC 2013
Hamilton Island occupancy rates hit record high
Increased domestic demand, stronger repeat business and an additional direct flight have helped propel Hamilton Island’s occupancy rate to record levels.
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Hotspots • 16 DEC 2013
Beach development sells out
A new beachfront development at Casuarina Beach in northern New South Wales sold out within six months of being offered on the market.  
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Hotspots • 13 DEC 2013
January will be ‘best month of the year’ to buy
January 2014 will be a buyers’ market and investors should make ‘lower than usual offers’, according to a Sydney-based buyer’s agency.
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