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Hotspots • 16 SEP 2011
Median house prices climb
Melbourne’s median house price jumped by 5.4 per cent in the June quarter while the national property market recorded its strongest results in a year, according to new...
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Hotspots • 16 SEP 2011
Drop in listings 'surprising', says analyst
A month-on-month fall in residential property listings during August was 'surprising', a property market analyst said.
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Hotspots • 16 SEP 2011
More Australians look to buy
Despite general consumer caution, LJ Hooker chief executive Janusz Hooker said the proportion of households who consider now a good time to buy has risen to its highest...
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Hotspots • 15 SEP 2011
Greater funds needed for home building: HIA
The Housing Industry Association iis calling on the federal government to inject greater funds into the construction of residential property.
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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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Finance • 12 SEP 2011
CBA to undercut rivals' rates
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has vowed to beat any hot mortgage offers advertised by the other majors over the next month.
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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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