Lower rates encourage buyers
CONSUMERS are being encouraged by a lower interest rate environment to invest in the property market, a national survey has found.
Property
Time to check smoke alarms
WITH the cooler weather now upon us, it is the time to think about smoke alarms, the protection of your property and the safety of tenants.
First-home buyers bounce back
FIRST-home buyers are getting back in the market in Queensland, making up 20% of all owner-occupier dwellings financed in April this year.
New Moranbah mine to create jobs
A NEW mining lease near Moranbah is expected to create up to 1000 new jobs if the company behind it can accommodate local workers.
Resource boom drives development
TOOWOOMBA’S housing industry is riding high on Australia’s two-speed economy with a 75 per cent increase in home development approvals compared to last year.
Taking the plunge
AT 19-years-old Alice Hodgkinson is already fed up with the rental market and is getting ready to buy her first home.
Work about to start at Beachbreak
A SURGE in land sales has flooded Tweed Shire Council with building applications, but a Casuarina developer is confident work will start soon.
Building approvals fall in Qld, NSW
BUILDING approvals fell 8.7% in April, according to figure released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Urgent action on Gladstone housing: LNP
AN urgent review of all available housing land in Gladstone has been ordered to seek a solution to the area’s public housing crisis.
Housing gets more affordable
ANOTHER rise in the HIA-Commonwealth Bank Housing Affordability Index in the March 2012 quarter marks the fifth straight quarter of improvement.
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