Articles by Stephen Taylor
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January 2014
December 2013
- Housing Industry Supports Cutting Edge Research
- Christmas charity considerations: REIWA helps homeless
- Christmas charity to consider: Salvos' homeless assistance
- Lighting up your unit this Christmas
- Christmas rush trying time for renters, landlords
- Christmas charity for home building: The Tabitha project
- AMP Capital kicks off $670 million redevelopment of Pacific Fair
- Victorians warned for cheap handymen over Christmas season
- Suburb spotlight: Preston coming into its own with prices surging
- Prominent Sunbury retail site sells at auction for $822,000
- Vacancies increase across the country: SQM Research
- Stockland announces $116 million redevelopment in Rockingham
- Buyers line up for 140 East development
- Wesfarmers' Queensland hotels saw strong bids
- Raine steps down from family business peak body after 13 years
- UBS and Grocon join forces for real estate investment and asset management partnership
- Ringwood childcare centre subject of bidding war
- Queensland unit and townhouse market experienced a significant climb: REIQ
- Australian housing in a growth phase: Bendigo Bank/REIA report
- ‘Comfort factor’ important for property investors, new survey shows
- Shepparton Spotlight building sells for $4.34 million at auction
- Harcourts Mandurah director faces fine for no work cover, but GIO showed support
- Prime Trust property directors found to have breached duties
- Sentinel Property Group add first Melbourne asset with $20 million purchase
- Gardenvale retail property sells for $930,00 at auction
- 'Tree house' apartments a feature of DHA's Crimson Hill development
- Pendulum swings towards property vendors: RP Data
- Less is more for Christmas shoppers this year
- What will the year 2014 mean for the national property scene? The experts have their say
- Marketing your home online: Where to go and how to do it
- National housing sales volumes still below average, but improving
- Face to face interactions in property transactions furthered by video technology
- Transport study to investigate Sturt Highway future
- Gold Coast apartment sales rate cruising past last year
- Weaker dollar is an early Christmas present for the RBA: CommSec
- Gold Coast seeing ‘’the best real estate market conditions in more than eight years’’
- Combined capital city home values rise over the past 18 month growth phase: RP Data
- South Yarra's Forrest Hill precinct: The vision behind the rejuvenating transformation
- Winning a home: How a $2 ticket could change your life
- Insurance affordability in North Queensland a target of state and federal governments
- Suburb spotlight: Growth phase tipped for Redcliffe, Queensland
- Capital city home values are increasing at their fastest pace in three years
- Plan to slug caravan rents extra 10% GST slammed by Premier
- Amendments to NSW planning bill "spell disaster" for the state: UDIA
- Brisbane market maintaining momentum, backed by lift in demand
November 2013
- Australia's 'middle market' reaping the rewards of price rises
- Brisbane and Gold Coast trending upwards
- Auction clearance rates easily highest in past three years
- Securing a Chinese buyer for your property
- Queensland's new building industry watchdog to start work next month
- WA the strongest state for residential building: HIA
- Construction industry showing "significant improvement" in sentiment and activity since federal election
- SPAA backs ASIC plan to strengthen advice standards
- SPAA backs ASIC plan to strengthen advice standards
- How to target foreign buyers with social media
- Queensland residential market back into growth phase: REIQ
- Brisbane residential market kicking off
- Queensland government sets sights on Cape York
- The map all Queensland mining town investors should see
- Fixed rates set to rise further in November: Rate City
- Miami property market rises nearly 19% in one year
- Moreland residents receive early present as zoning changes
- Is your property open to burglary? What you must know
- Heritage listed original Geelong Grammar building back on the market
- Turkey tempting foreign buyers with easing of foreign ownership laws
- No-reserve auction for waterfront Airlie Beach bungalow kicks off with "courageous" $1 bid
- Granny flats: Do the cons outweigh the pros?
- NSW strata law reforms get thumbs up
- Suburb spotlight: Castle Hill attracting mass interest
- New NSW strata laws applauded by consumer group
- Suburb spotlight: Moranbah mining bust felt heavily
- How much of your “property education” is actually tax deductible?
- Struggling first home buyers pushing down Sydney's inner and middle suburb vacancy rates
- Struggling first home buyers pushing down Sydney's inner and middle suburb vacancy rates
- Website offering off-the-plan Swiss ski chalets
- New NRAS properties announced for Beenleigh, Queensland
- Home loans need to change to reflect your lifestyle
- Home loan approvals soar while first home buyer proportion sinks
- Home loan approvals soar while first home buyer proportion sinks
- Queensland's retail sector ramps up under increased investor appetite
- Construction sector may be on cusp of recovery
- ASIC warns agents about legal obligations for SMSF advice
- Foreign buyer limitations on property may come as surprise
- This week's most expensive and most affordable Melbourne auctions
- Surging Sydney property market could spoil RBA's New Year
- Tom Price gets set for first residential development in 40 years
- Aussie Home Loans joins AFG as loan providers reaping the rewards of low interest rates
- Savings holding back first home buyers
- Savings holding back first home buyers
October 2013
- Shane Oliver predicts RBA to leave interest rates on hold
- Big four banks lift rates, startle the market
- Fremantle investment edging towards $1 billion, city thanks town planning amendments
- Gladstone to receive $12.5 million from Royalties for the Regions
- Suburb spotlight: Not all gloom and doom for Geelong
- Super Saturday: What it takes to win on Melbourne's busiest auction day ever
- First ever non-cash exploration tenders, as land released in coal rich Bowen Basin
- Perth resale market tempered by first home buyers taking the plunge
- Bayside Built Environment Awards swept away with wave inspired town houses design
- New planning legislation enters NSW Parliament
- Brisbane at the bottom of the cycle: API survey
- New planning schemes for more than 50% of Tasmania
- Commercial mixed use development about to come along to Tuggeranong
- Swag of plans approved for Bendigo as goldfields town looks set to transform
- Don't fix without asking for advice: Loan Market
- What's happening in Gladstone, Rockhampton and Toowoomba?
- Concerns over national licensing body NOLA's use of funds
- At last, Docklands is starting to blossom say local real estate agents
- Government to maximise infrastructure life and spend
- WA PortLink project enters public consultation phase
- South Perth site provides huge development potential
- Central Park stages accelerated to keep up with demand
- Developers urge states to sign on to federal plans for environmental approval
- "Best 12 months I can remember": Fitzroy agents revel in the good times
- Queensland social housing information available online for the first time
- Tasmania announces new planning zones for Cradle Coast Region
- Turkey's property market in overdrive as agency launches stock campaign
- Docklands: Finding its feet after a difficult conception
- Under scrutiny: How far does the property media industry go to protect their readers?
- Greater transparency in retirement property industry required to attract institutional investment: Retire Australia
- Greater transparency in retirement property industry required to attract institutional investment: Retire Australia
- Third airport mooted for Melbourne
- SMSF investors should be able to pinpoint reasons for property rises before they buy
- SMSF investors should be able to pinpoint reasons for property rises before they buy
- Residential property listing fell during September: SQM Research
- North Ryde due for shakeup
- GHD awarded scoping studies contract for Newcastle light rail project
- Chinese developer snaps up historic three storey St Leonards commercial building
- Proposed planning reforms would boost NSW housing approvals: Urban Taskforce
- How the industry reacted to the RBA decision
- Tips for buying in a hot market
- Experts tip RBA to keep rates on hold
- Borrowers could save by switching to better value products: CANSTAR
- Variable home rates surge with speculation of further rate cuts
September 2013
- Vacancy rates drop across the board
- Mixed-use site snapped up for $3 million
- Brisbane's top 10 most heavily discounted properties: SQM
- Demand for variable rate loans on the rise in August
- Sydney shortage causing market shift
- Getting into the property market is becoming easier
- Boost expected for property prices in Bendigo suburb
August 2013
- Prices remain static amid Albury/Wodonga sellers under no pressure: HTW
- Bibra Lake, Kardinya, Willetton, Padbury, Duncraig, Woodlands and Fremantle apartments ought outperform the Perth market: HTW
- Broadmeadows among the top mortgage delinquent locations: Standard & Poor's
- Perth residential hitting turbulent air: HTW
- McGrath Estate Agents expands to Queensland's Sunshine Coast
- Median house price rises in Broome despite volatility: PRDnationwide
- Strong demand for Sydney CBD apartments: PRDnationwide
- Melton forecast to grow strongly over next 25 years: PRDnationwide
- Mornington Peninsula's Box Stallion winery for receivership sale
- Rising residential markets helping agent commissions: RP Data
- Mortgage Choice expects uplift in confidence after another year of dampened consumer and business confidence
- New rules allow rentable Perth granny-flats
- RE/MAX set for United States IPO
- Aussie dollar holds the key to further interest rate cuts
- Leighton's 177 Pacific Highway, North Sydney $400m office high-rise
- Public administrators main commuters living in Newcastle: KPMG
- Gold Coast’s seductive lifestyle underpins the rise of extreme commuting
- Snapped up - 11 vacant blocks sold by Wesley College in Rose Street, Glen Waverley
- What can a $1 million or so buy in Melbourne and Sydney?
- Official voyeuristic betting on the Carrara Road, Vaucluse harbourfront $60 million prospects
- Australian commercial property 9.1% total return for year ending June 2013: Property Council/IPD Australia All Property Index
- New home building recovery at risk of running out of steam: HIA
- Clifton Hill mixed-use development opportunity sold for more than $4 million
- Mildura commercial property market softening under flood of listings: Herron Todd White
- Gold Coast retail property stabilised over first half of 2013: Herron Todd White
- Wellington Parade New York style warehouse office transforming East Melbourne
- A hard landing in China could hurt Australian jobs, business confidence and trigger a 25% house price fall: Standard & Poor's
- Brisbane property market taut but optimistic: Herron Todd White
- Gold Coast and Tweed Coast residential market has bottomed in first half of 2013: Herron Todd White
- NSW building industry has better prospects from 2016: ACIF
- NT engineering construction has peaked, but set to remain at historic highs over a long period: ACIF
- Residential building in Victoria set to fall back over next three years: ACIF
- Queensland building and construction data disproves "sky is falling" rhetoric.: ACIF
- Changing demographics creating opportunities for Tasmanian builders: ACIF
- Park Street, South Melbourne mixed use offering
- Gold Coast Council’s Construction Kickstart program recovery is at risk
- AMP wholesale fund buys Sacramento office building for $32.7 million
- Stellar Victorian residential building sector forecast to slow as NSW catches up
- Investor syndicate buys Quest Albury serviced apartments for $24.8 million
- Investors upsize their appetites for high-yielding regional fast food outlets
- Low interest rates reviving pre-election Canberra market: Herron Todd White
- Election jitters and job security unnerving SE Queensland property: Herron Todd White
- Brisbane's $1 million trade up market is the city's best performing price sector: Herron Todd White
- Darwin property market stabilising, despite considerable sales drop: Herron Todd White
- Home building composition changing with 7.3% rise in detached new home sales in June: HIA
- Five offers for Sandringham Driving Range rights being considered
- Lend Lease secures 2.5 hectare Docklands site with Collins and Flinders Street frontage
July 2013
- New resort and residential development planned for Hamilton Island
- Spinnaker Sound marina near Bribie Island sold
- Former Fortitude Valley hotel for sale
- St Kevin's College set to acquire Tooronga land from Coles for sporting fields
- Victorian landlords face 31 days on market searching for tenant: rent.com.au
- Young buyers moving to outer Melbourne suburbs: REIV
- Inner city suburbs popular with same sex couples: ABS
- Boutique fashion designer Benedicte Olrik lists Hampton trophy home
- Investors limber up to buy Melbourne’s landmark Virgin Active gym
- Victoria returns best national office leasing figures: Savills
- Cypress Lakes golf and country club in the Hunter Valley sold to Thai hotel group for $10 million
- Gold Coast Axis trophy penthouse listed by owner-builder
- Residential land sales up modest 4.3% in March quarter: HIA-RP Data
- Sydney’s residential rental market remains tight: REINSW
- East-West link compensation a long time off finalisation
- Spring Street Melbourne office site for possible residential redevelopment
- At least $6 billion worth of unsatisfied capital is looking at Australian office markets: JLL
- The 5 key property benchmarks that First National agents sense are shaping the national residential market
- Hobby olive farms in vogue with record oil production projected in Victoria
- August RBA rate cut looms more likely after worst retail conditions for 16 years: NAB
- Revival of commercial property market continues: First National
- Higher than average delinquency rate for Mornington Peninsula: Fitch
- Commercial property market rising with foreign investment and superannuation funding: First National
- The $1.65 direct debit Victorian weekly rental payment system dispute
- Half of First National agents expect prices to rise, but nowhere near the 5% to 7% predicted by some economists
- The 34 Infrastructure Australia projects that might interest property investors: List of the day
- Another $100 million-plus residential land sale pending at Yarraville Gardens
- The Dog's Bar premises at 54 Acland Street sold post-auction
- Backyards may be shrinking in number, but spending more time in them makes us happier
- Commercial and residential property both on the rise in Footscray
- Building industry still in the doldrums: Master Builders
- Domestic buyers return to Australian CBD office market: Knight Frank
- Record $120 million residential land sale at former Amcor Alphington site
- Australians are happier despite softer economic climate
- Natalie Bassingthwaighte's Elwood period investment property sells at auction
- Strong sales for Ebony development on Camberwell Road
- Julie Collins appointed new federal housing minister - the sixth in the Labor Government
June 2013
- New financial year brings mixed news for Victorian first-home buyers
- New financial year brings mixed news for Victorian first-home buyers
- Hervey Bay development opportunity sold, but not in a rush
- RACT and RACV buy Grand Mercure Hobart Central Apartments
- Thai group has eye on Cypress Lakes, Hunter Valley resort
- Sanbano Southport tower to rise 51 storeys over Gold Coast
- Prime St Kilda road office building listed with $20 million hopes
- AMP's amber light for Young Street precinct at Sydney’s Circular Quay
- Fishermans Bend rezoning remains contentious as Montague precinct to be flooded with apartments
- NSW Riverina prices rise with Wagga Wagga at record high
- White goods maker Fisher & Paykel relocates to Macquarie Park and Warwick Farm
- Albert Park's Lynton fails to sell at auction despite huge crowd