Clouded thinking is a huge cause of emotional stress for many men and women. Feeling overwhelmed, your brain overloaded with too many things to remember, things to do and questions to answer. No time is this more noticeable than the lead up to a big event like Christmas, or the pressure of a New Year and new beginning. ...
Owners of rental properties may need to exercise greater prudence when it comes to assessment of rental incomes and tax expense claims in 2015. The ATO will target rental properties and expand its investigation into many other areas and issues to ensure that taxpayers pay the appropriate amounts. ...
Digital Finance Analytics have updated their savings intentions data, using results from their latest household surveys. Using the DFA property segmentation, they compare the relative value of savings across the segments, and compare this distribution with last year. ...
Why are property sellers achieving excellent results at auction and selling their homes under the hammer rather than by private sale? Melbourne lived up to its reputation as Australia’s auction capital with a record-breaking year in 2014. About 40,000 auctions were held – a new record, up from 34,500 last year and beating the previous record of 34,619 set in 2010. ...
Property sales are occurring before auctions take place and an increased number of Melbourne property auctions are being passed in and negotiated rather than sold under the hammer. Find out what happened in the property market last week. ...
A clearance rate of 70 per cent was recorded this weekend, compared to 66 per cent last weekend and 68 per cent this weekend last year. Of the 1266 auctions reported to the REIV, 881 sold and 385 passed in, 192 on a vendor’s bid. The inner Melbourne region has had the highest clearance rate so far this year, at 73 per cent ...