Australians have saved some $60 billion a year in cancelled overseas travel because of the pandemic, figures show, with part of that cash flowing into the property market. Buyers lucky enough to keep their jobs have been taking the opportunity to use their extra savings to get into the rising property market for the first […]
7/33 Broderick Rd is on the market with $470,000-$500,000 price hopes in Carrum Downs, the No. 1 unit market to watch. Some of Victoria’s most affordable suburbs are showing signs strong price growth is just around the corner, as agents urge buyers to get in before it’s too late. The Carrum Downs and Werribee unit […]
1 Farnham St, Flemington, is up for rent for $1000 per week. The listing is one of few coveted four-bedroom houses for rent in the inner ring. Budding investors could earn thousands of dollars a week if they targeted larger family homes in the inner suburbs of Melbourne. Houses with four bedrooms or more within […]
While we’ve all been spending extra time close to home, we’ve had the chance to take a good hard look at the suburb we live in. Suddenly, what’s in our immediate vicinity matters more than ever (five kilometres, anyone?). Ceramicist Lisa Frankland thinks she’s one of the lucky ones. The Brunswick East resident describes her local neighbourhood […]
Auctions will be subject to strict density caps of 10 people. Picture: Andrew Henshaw On-site auctions and home inspections are set to resume in all parts of regional Victoria, except Greater Shepparton, as lockdown restrictions are eased. Premier Daniel Andrews announced on Wednesday regional Victoria would be freed from strict stay-at-home orders from midnight Thursday. […]
236 Ballan Rd, Wyndham Vale, sold more than $86,000 above its reserve in a “crazy” result the agent has branded “click and collect”. Melbourne’s normally pumping spring selling season has had its second straight soft start. With fewer than 200 homes scheduled to go under the hammer last weekend, and the number not expected […]
When in lockdown, knock down – or so it seems for Melbourne house-hunters desperate to buy property when in-person inspections are banned. Agents have reported a surge in demand for properties being sold for their land value only, with owners happy to spend millions on houses in exclusive suburbs, sight unseen, because they know they’ll […]