Melbourne Property Market & Prices

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Fewer Homes Selling Across Affordable Price Points

By CoreLogic RP Data on 15 Feb 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

This week RP Data’s Cameron Kusher reported that almost two years have passed since the property market kicked in again and commenced another cycle of growth. Looking back at how the market performed over this period, he found that a larger proportion of home sales crept into the higher price brackets ...

Melbourne Property Market Update – February 15, 2014

By Peter Sarmas on 15 Feb 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

A raft of property data was released this week, confirming that while housing finance fell in December, house prices remained strong overall. In his weekly market commentary, Peter Sarmas discussed the Reserve Bank's latest interest rate decision, and what this means for the property market moving forward ...

Housing Finance Falls, But Prices Remain Strong

By Louis Christopher on 13 Feb 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

Quite a lot of real estate data has been released this week! Let’s start with the ABS Housing Finance Approvals series. The one thing I find quite amusing is that there are so many different numbers in this series that almost anyone with a particular agenda can pull out a number that best suits them ...

Sydney Property Listings Drop to Record Low

By Louis Christopher on 13 Feb 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

The number of Australian residential property listings rose during January, after a quiet period over Christmas. Nationally, stock on market came to a total of 342,157 – a monthly rise of 1.3 per cent. Sydney and Melbourne were the only two capital cities to record falls for the month; falling by 3.4 per cent and 1.9 per cent respectively ...

Arguing the Case that there is Currently Affordable Housing in Australia

By Kristie Kwok on 13 Feb 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

The debate around housing affordability has been hotly contested with no clear winner. Part of the problem is that housing affordability means different things to different people. Central to the concept is a person’s ability to pay for their dwelling; if we start from this basic premise, then there is evidence that housing in Australia is affordable ...

Are You Really Covered? Ten Tips for Avoiding Underinsurance

By Sharon Fox-Slater on 12 Feb 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

Even the best insurance policies can leave you exposed if you don’t insure for an adequate amount. The problem is that it’s difficult to work out how much it would really cost to rebuild if disaster happens. Study after study shows that Australians tend to underinsure. Every time there’s a major disaster, we hear about more cases ...