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Investor Strategy • 23 DEC 2024
Luxury home swap: A new way to travel for property investors
This summer, property investors can travel differently by swapping their luxury second home for another glamorous property in another country.
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Investor Strategy • 19 DEC 2024
Luxury market set to boom further in 2025
With Australia’s luxury housing market forecast to reach or exceed $2 million over the coming year, some smaller capital cities are emerging as luxury housing...
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Tax & Legal • 18 DEC 2024
When is enough enough? Protecting landlords is crucial to solving Victoria’s rental crisis
Opinion: Affordable rental accommodation is an essential piece of solving Victoria’s housing crisis puzzle – but crushing landlords under the weight of reforms that...
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Investor Strategy • 18 DEC 2024
Investing with friends 101: Achieving success and avoiding common mistakes
While many Australians would run from the idea of investing with their friends, Michael Jeffries said that if it was done properly, it could become a fruitful...
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Investor Strategy • 18 DEC 2024
Which are the best suburbs for investors in 2024?
In a year dominated by interest rate speculation and varied price growth, here are the suburbs that returned big results for sellers in 2024.
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Investor Strategy • 12 DEC 2024
Revealing the suburbs with the biggest price rises in 2024
CoreLogic’s Best of the Best Report analysed the Australian housing market, which showed the suburbs with the highest property price rises in 2024.
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Tax & Legal • 11 DEC 2024
"Its impossible to find them": WA raises alarm over fake tradies
Western Australians have been warned against a group of “fake” tradies travelling the state offering “dodgy” roofing, driveway and spray-painting services.
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Tax & Legal • 11 DEC 2024
Victoria changes regulations to boost housing supply
The Victorian government has announced changes to the small lot housing code, making it easier to get homes off the ground in Melbourne’s metro and regional areas.
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Investor Strategy • 11 DEC 2024
Australian residential and commercial market expected to shift in 2025
The Australian property market is forecast to undergo major transformation in 2025 as anticipated rate cuts and emerging trends reshape the residential and commercial...
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Investor Strategy • 10 DEC 2024
Foreign investors pour $10bn into Australian property in FY24
Foreign investment in Australia’s property market remained robust in FY24, with favourable global and local economic conditions driving expectations for increased...
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