Our daily Melbourne property market updates are written by experienced property commentators, buyer advocates and investment experts. All have their finger on the pulse of the Melbourne property market.
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 ...
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 ...
There is widespread speculation that a movement in the Australian interest rate will happen soon. But which direction will it go? Opinions vary - those worried about unemployment favour a rate cut while others focused on curtailing inflation back an interest rate rise ...
Auction activity around Australia is set to pick up steam this weekend, as 390 properties are expected to go under the hammer in Melbourne, a figure considerably higher than the 219 auctions listed on the same weekend last year. Peter Sarmas considers reports that the property market appears as buoyant as it was back in 2010 ...
Have you been fostering grand plans of outdoing Homer Simpson's 'Persephone'? Or maybe you've always dreamed of adding a Wet and Wild atop one of the terminals at Melbourne Airport? Australia Pacific Airports Corporation Pty Ltd recently released a statement calling for public design input into the finer aspects of the new terminal ...
There is a hypothesis going around that stock market performance in January (particularly in the US) predicts its performance for the rest of the year. So if the stock market has a bad month in January, this is likely to continue for the rest of the year. Fortunately, this theory does not hold true as much as it once did ...
