Global debt crisis weighs heavy on investors' minds
Your Investment Property Magazine 6/02/2012 1:48:31 PM
Property prices came in second (26%) followed by rental yields (22%). Surprisingly, only 9% of the 209 brokers who took part in the survey picked interest rates as a key factor for investors. “While there's a continual focus on interest rates, ...

Investor signposts – week beginning 5 February 2012
Switzer Financial News 6/02/2012 8:51:00 AM
by Craig James (CommSec) RP Data and Rismark International has published the final data on residential property prices for 2011, so it's worth spending some time looking at the results. Overall, capital city dwelling prices fell by 3.6 per cent in 2011 ...

A city divided
Brisbane Times 5/02/2012 4:25:43 AM
Comedian Justin Heazlewood, of Thornbury, remains a staunch northside rebel and insists the differences run deeper than property prices. ''Southside is shiny, northside is scuzzy. Southside is spiky, northside is side-swept. It's really like the Yarra ...

Merrin Jagtman | 6th February 2012
The Satellite 6/02/2012 4:55:16 PM
A few days after giving birth to her own little masterpiece, baby daughter Harper, Ms Gossner discovered she had won Brisbane's most prestigious new art award, the Metro Property Development and Pearls Australasia Art Competition.

Unhappy Bankwest clients push senate inquiry
Sydney Morning Herald 6/02/2012 8:33:17 AM
"The increase was primarily due to losses from property development lending," she said. "During this period the property development sector generally was under greater pressure due to the GFC and falling property values." But she said the comment ...

South-West native heritage to stay
Perth Now 5/02/2012 4:57:45 PM
Premier Colin Barnett yesterday said that a proposed settlement with Noongar native title claimants would mean "property development, mining, fishing, farming, will all be able to proceed and will not in any way be under threat or disruption or delay ...$1bn native title deal to settle Perth claimsSydney Morning Herald

Unhappy Bankwest clients push senate inquiry
Sydney Morning Herald 6/02/2012 8:33:17 AM
"During this period the property development sector generally was under greater pressure due to the GFC and falling property values." But she said the comment referred to assessment criteria for future borrowers and did not relate to existing loan ...

Gold Coast back on the road to paradise
The Australian 3/02/2012 11:12:08 PM
"Given how far down property values have gone on the Gold Coast, some people would concede that prices you're paying now are a bit of a bargain, especially if you're considering something for the long term," Kusher says. "But you need to take at least ...

Ticket to high-rise yields as apartments perform better than houses
The Australian 3/02/2012 11:12:04 PM
Last time Brisbane was devastated by floods, in 1974, there was a general 10 per cent decline in property values. I suggested at the start of last year that Brisbane prices would fall because of the latest floods, but probably by less than the 1974 ...