Beach bargains are just a fairy story
CASHED-UP Melburnians keen to snatch beachfront holiday homes for a song from struggling vendors may be in for a big disappointment.
Plunging average prices for regional seaside homes don’t tell the full story.
Valuer-General Victoria sales figures released this month by Land Victoria show median house prices rose in a third of seaside towns!
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High interest rates benefit investors
What happens if rates go up? In today’s low-interest-rate environment one of the common questions property investors ask is, “What happens if I buy now and interest rates skyrocket, like back in the 1980’s?”
An understandable concern and today’s historically low interest rates can’t be sustained forever because at some point the economy will begin [...]
Melbourne auction market clearance rate peaks
Of the 452 properties up for auction, 83 per cent sold and 77 properties were passed in!
But the number of properties for auction was 126 fewer than at the same time last year!
Real Estate Institute of Victoria CEO Enzo Raimondo attributed the high clearance rate to the extension of the first-home buyers grant [...]
First homebuyers improve rental vacancy rates
Melbourne’s outer suburb vacancy rates have improved from 0.7 per cent to 1.8 per cent in the past six months, according to the Real Estate Institute of Victoria’s April vacancy rates.
The vacancy rate across Melbourne is reasonably steady having been between one and 1.4 per cent for 12 months. However it‘s significant that there’s a [...]
Cheap inner-city areas – where are they?
It’s well known, buying properties within 10km of capital cities are generally a good investment, but where ARE the most affordable areas?
Did you know there are suburbs within 5km of capital city centres where the median unit price is $200,000 and the gross rental yield 5.33%?
You really don’t have to buy far from the [...]