FHBA Weekend Preview: 15 – 16 July 2017 Recently there has been a range of your new measures designed to dampen investor activity and increase first home buyer activity. A lot of these changes (such as new stamp duty exemptions and concessions…
FHBA Market Update: 10 July 2017 Australia’s population continues to rise according to the latest demographic data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Australia’s population increase is due to two key factors: natural increase (as we are living longer) and net…
FHBA Market Update: 4 July 2017 On 1 July (the start of the new financial year) there was a few states based changes in relation to first home buyer policies, in particular the First Home Owners Grant (FHOG) and stamp…
FHBA Weekend Preview: 1 – 2 July 2017 In recent weeks Australia’s largest property research house, CoreLogic Australia, has been reporting that auction clearance rates have been trending slightly lower in Australia, with Melbourne and Sydney leading the way (& last week,…
A number of state government changes are coming for first homebuyers from today, 1 July 2017, including changes to state-based first homeowner grants and stamp duty discounts Today, we summarise each state’s current (effective 1 July 2017) First Home Owner Grant…
FHBA Market Update: 19 June 2017 This week’s FHBA Market Update show’s property markets are performing in a similar fashion to what they have been in more recent times – a little bit softer. Real estate experts in NSW and…
FHBA Weekend Preview: 17 – 18 June 2017 We have been reading the same headlines for so long now in the media: ‘investors continue to dominate’; ‘auction clearance rates rise again’; ‘property prices go up again’; ‘first home buyers continue…
Today (13/06/2017) the Queensland government announced the Queensland First Home Owners’ Grant (QLD FHOG) will remain at $20,000 until 31 December 2017. Previously the QLD FHOG was due to decrease from $20,000 to $15,000. Update (12/06/2018): Today the Government has…
FHBA Market Update: 13 June 2017 In last week’s FHBA Market Update we wrote about how the tide may be starting to turn in the favour of the first home buyer, highlighting: The softening of property prices in many of our capital…
FHBA Weekend Preview: 10 – 11 June 2017 Typically, long weekends mean a quiet time for the property market. With most states having a long weekend for the Queen’s Birthday public holiday on Monday the number of open homes and…