Year: 2020

We are amongst exciting times to be building, with opportunities of up to $40,000 in government grants!

HomeBuilder provides eligible owner-occupiers (including first home buyers) with a grant of $25,000 to build a new home or substantially renovate an existing home. HomeBuilder will assist the residential construction market by encouraging the commencement of new home builds and renovations – See more HERE! In addition, First Home Owners Grant of $15,000 may be.

Bernard Salt’s revival of the suburban dream

  In this bold new world the suburbs cast aside their pre-corona personas and create localised communities pivoting to work-near-home collaboration spaces and education and civic facilities. The urban fabric loses its fried-egg logic and scrambles into a patchwork of self-contained but interconnected communities. Bike paths, walking trails, local tramway networks radiating from — wait.

Real estate industry’s big ideas for kick-starting the economy

The Queensland property industry will lobby the Palaszczuk Government for a $600 million infrastructure injection to help lay the groundwork for the sector’s rebuild. Property Council chief executive Chris Mountford said new residential developments often stalled for years as local council, the State and developers argued over who should pay for infrastructure such as roads,.

We Love Park Ridge (right next to Logan)

Dr Bevan Geissmann, the co-founder of Halcyon villages for over 50-year-olds, loves his acreage property in the suburb of Logan. 1. Where do you live and why? I moved to Logan when I joined a medical practice in Beenleigh 34 years ago. Having grown up on the southside of Brisbane in Holland Park, at that.

Yes, you can absolutely buy and sell during Covid-19

Coronavirus: Can I still sell my house? FAQs on how COVID-19 affects the housing market The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted upon almost every industry including real estate. State and federal governments have introduced necessary restrictions to stop the spread of the virus. But the property market continues to operate, with the safety and health of.

Home values set to weather coronavirus pandemic

Housing prices stayed in positive territory despite coronavirus hitting large swathes of the economy in March. The CoreLogic Hedonic Index saw housing values climb in the first half of March but as social distancing measures kicked in through the final two weeks, that growth began to weaken. This as the Commonwealth Bank, one of the.

How to choose the best home for your health

It may not be surprising to learn that 80 per cent of people in the developed world live in urban settings, but did you know that 90 per cent of our time is spent indoors? According to the Heart Foundation, the built environment has become our natural environment and this has a profound influence on.

Brisbane and Gold Coast among world’s best luxury cities

Four Australian cities including Brisbane and the Gold Coast have been named among the top 60 luxury residential markets in the world. Brisbane emerged in 57th spot, the Gold Coast was two spots higher (55th), while Melbourne came in at 44 and Sydney was Australia’s best performer slipping into 27th place. This was off the.