Despite the shaky, crazy things going on in finance markets around the world, now is the time to buy real estate. There are a lot of properties on the market right now, at least in Brisbane where things have gone ballistic in the past few weeks. So if you’re shopping for a home, you’ll have [...]
“Eighty per cent of the Australian population lives in the coastal zone, and approximately 711,000 addresses are within three kilometres of the coast and less than six metres above sea level.”
- Department of Climate Change
I’ve spoken before about the problem of rising sea levels and the potential for it to inundate Australian homes (see “Coastal [...]
Facebook is becoming quite a force, with more and more people joining up. I’ve been on it for a few months, and I’ve just set up a Facebook Page for my business - have a look at Highshots Photography on Facebook.
Anyway, there’s a lot of talk around about how business people, including real estate agents, [...]
Everyone’s talking about the drop in property values, and some are wondering if we might be heading for a meltdown like they’ve experienced in the USA. The circumstances over in America are very different to those here in Australia, as The Age’s Kenneth Davidson points out in “House prices are a bubble waiting to burst”:
“The [...]
I received an email today telling me about a Home Buyer Show that’ll be touring the eastern states of Australia. It kicks off in Brisbane (July 25th to 27th), then moves on to Melbourne (August 15th to 17th) and Sydney (October 25th and 26th).
There’s some good stuff covered, especially for first home buyers. For example, [...]
For those of you who aren’t residents in south-east Queensland, you might have missed the story about land subsidence in the Ipswich suburb of Collingwood Park (click here to see a map of the subsidence area, provided by Queensland’s Department of Mines and Energy). Apparently there’s quite a number of old mines underneath the area, [...]
They’re doing it tough in the USA at the moment, with a massive number of properties being hit by foreclosure (what we call, “mortgagee repossession”). In California, one in three home resales are the result of foreclosures.
Have a look at this video, where an American estate agent drives around the streets of Atlanta, Georgia, talking [...]
