API Australian Property News



  • The path for investment opportunities widens in South Australia
  • 01/31/2012 05:53 PM
  • The proposed Olympic Dam expansion is becoming more and more certain, after plans were announced to expand the Stuart Highway from Olympic Dam to Port Augusta in South Australia.
  • Evidence the property market could be bottoming
  • 01/31/2012 04:54 PM
  • Signals of a bottoming market are evident as the December quarter reports the year’s smallest quarterly decline, according to RP Data director of research Tim Lawless
  • Investors find other avenues for capital growth
  • 01/27/2012 09:45 AM
  • It's natural for property prices to take a breather as they move through the property cycle, but that doesn't mean investors can't brainstorm ways to create their own growth in the meantime.
  • Proposed new rail line for Mackay
  • 01/24/2012 09:45 AM
  • Investment properties in Mackay have just been given another boost, with BHP Billiton giving the Queensland Government notice of a proposed rail corridor alignment from the Bowen Basin to Mackay
  • Red tape slashed in housing market paperwork
  • 01/23/2012 04:26 PM
  • Homebuyers and sellers in Queensland will soon be using just one contract, under a plan to slash red tape in the housing market.
  • Rents increase across Australia
  • 01/19/2012 01:53 PM
  • The soft homebuyer market has put increased pressure on the rental market, resulting in higher rents across the entire country, according to Australian Property Monitors’ Rental Price Series quarterly report.
  • Land sales on the increase
  • 01/19/2012 01:30 PM
  • Land sales have increased by 1.3 per cent in the September quarter, according to the Housing Industry Association (HIA)-RP Data Residential Land Report. It’s the third quarter where the volume of land sales has increased.
  • Sydney buyer demand shifts to affordability
  • 01/19/2012 11:45 AM
  • Affordability is the key this year as Sydney buyers shift attention to older, more affordable units in prime lifestyle locations along Sydney’s inner coastal areas and also to cheap housing on the metro city fringe, according to WBP Property Group New South Wales manager Chris Lackey.
  • Inpex approval puts gas back into Darwin’s property market
  • 01/17/2012 12:27 PM
  • The Inpex project means “very exciting times are ahead” for Darwin, according to the Real Estate Institute of the Northern Territory (REINT).
  • Kitchen and bathroom renos on the decline, but property prices holding
  • 01/16/2012 11:21 AM
  • Investors are more likely to have daggy kitchens and older bathrooms for the next 12 months with renovations on the decline, but property prices are still firm, says the Housing Industry Association’s Kitchen and Bathrooms: Past Growth and Future Prospects 2011/2012 report.
  • Confidence back up on the Gold Coast
  • 01/13/2012 05:37 PM
  • The Gold Coast’s successful bid to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games has brought back a much-needed confidence boost to Queensland’s glitter strip.
  • Queensland building boost extended
  • 01/13/2012 04:12 PM
  • Investors and homebuyers in Queensland now have an extra reason to buy off-the-plan properties, after the Queensland $10,000 building boost grant was given a three-month extension. The boost was supposed to end at the end of January, but will now expire at the end of April.
  • No price crash as predicted, growth ahead
  • 01/13/2012 02:41 PM
  • Prices may have softened in 2011, but not to the extent of a “collapse” or “bloodbath” as predicted by some commentators, according to the Housing Industry Association senior economist Andrew Harvey.
  • Official go ahead for Inpex LNG project today
  • 01/13/2012 12:57 PM
  • A highly anticipated $25 billion gas project for Darwin and Western Australia will be given the official nod today, as indicated in a full-page Inpex advertisment in today’s Northern Territory News, reported ABC News Online.
  • Mixed feelings on the Grantham land swap
  • 01/12/2012 03:46 PM
  • This week signalled one year since Grantham, in Queensland, was ravaged by flash flooding. In this time a new town has resurfaced just up over the hill from the old town, with sweeping vistas and flood-free land. Some locals say it’s an exciting fresh start while others say the land swap deal by the government could have been fairer.