Find Investment Property has launched a new sister website called Find House and Land. As the name suggests it is for those property buyers looking for house and land packages in Australia. We have only just gone live with the site with about 65 land estates listed where you can buy the latest new homes available.

We hope in the coming 12 months that we will be able to increase the number of land estates to well over 100, have them spread accross the country with multiple home and land packages available in each land estate that we have online.

House and Land packages are perfect for first home buyers that are looking to buy a home and cant necessarily afford the inner city living provided by established homes. When looking at a house and land package it is important to look at the community that is being developed and understand the infrastructure in the immediate and surrounding areas. Buying into an early stage of a multi stage development can see a property investor or home buyer make good capital growth on the land.

If you are interested in buying a house and land package, visit the Find House and Land website and let us know your thoughts. We are always looking at ways to help improve your search. If you cant find what you are looking for, simply give us a call and we can help you out!

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Sydney Home Buyer Show (Pre-Show Guide)

Don’t miss the largest event in Australia dedicated to educating home buyers & property investors of all levels.

Buying a home or investment property is one of most important financial transactions you will ever make.
So if you’re looking to buy property but keen to make the right decisions and avoid costly mistakes – then you simply can’t afford to miss the Sydney Home Buyer Show being held at the Sydney Exhibition Centre from Saturday 31 October to Sunday 1 November.

It’s the smart way to buy property and the largest event in Australia dedicated to helping people finance, find and buy their next home or investment property. We’ll help you get on the right path to the right property with over 30 free seminars and workshops on offer each day – delivered only by impartial experts from government and industry associations that you can trust including free seminars from John Symond, Aussie; Mark Bouris, Channel 9’s The Apprentice and Effie Zahos, Channel 9’s Money for Jam.

A major exhibition will showcase over 120 leading companies with everything the home buyer or investor needs under one roof, including new and established homes, apartments, townhouses, units, builders, house & land packages, holiday houses, land estates, home loans, real estate agents, property investment advice companies and much more.

Heaps of New Products and Show Specials will also be on offer plus there’s dedicated Zones for Apartment Buyers and Property Investors.

For further information including the comprehensive educational seminar program and full exhibitor list visit: http://www.homebuyershow.com.au/home/sydney

As part of a special promotion we are pleased to offer all our Blog Readers, family and friends FREE TICKETS to the Sydney Home Buyer Show which are normally $15. Simply visit the website www.homebuyershow.com.au and quote the special promotional code FINDIP when purchasing your tickets.

Visitors to can also attend the Trading & Investing Seminars & Expo next for free – tickets are normally $15. For full details visit the Trading & Investing Seminars & Expo website: www.tradingandinvestingexpo.com.au

Event details:
Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre
Saturday 31 October to Sunday 1 November 2009
Opening Hours: 10am to 5pm daily

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The sunshine state… Queensland lived up to its name. Last Sunday I flew into the Gold Coast Airport for a 1 week trip through to the Sunshine Coast via Brisbane. We met with over 15 different developers including both those that are currently listed on the site as well as those that are looking to come online.

On Monday we met with Sunland and Niecon. We also walked through the main streets of the Gold Coast and noticed the lack of new development that was occurring except for a couple of major projects.

After driving through to Brisbane on Monday afternoon we spent Tuesday meeting with Vecchio Property Group, Meridien, Colliers, Aria Property Group and DTZ. It was a full day with some great feedback from those that are currently listed and those that weren’t were impressed with our offerings.

Wednesday in Brisbane was a public holiday due to Ekka. The city streets were quiet. I took a walk from the city across the foot bridge to Southbank… what a beautiful day. Southbank is definitely a favourite of mine, so close to the city with cafes, restaurants and more. Part of Southbank area includes manmade swimming pools and lagoons. It was packed, kids of full of life and families enjoying the day off work and school.

Thursday we met with Pradella in the morning along with a local real estate agency and Witt Property Group. After our final meeting we headed north to Mooloolaba, where they are currently doing some streetscape changes which see a more friendly pedestrian experience along the main strip of shops.

On Friday morning we met with Avara Property Group and RGD Property in Kawana. Kawana is amazing new city and I will spend more time discussing it in a future Blog post. In the afternoon we met with an FKP representative regarding Perigien Springs Land Estate and Reed Property in Maroochydore.

Saturday we met with Colliers Sunshine Coast in regards to Viridian Resort and Spa located just off Hasting Street in Noosa as well as the development manager from Settlers Cove.

The trip to Queensland was informative. We have learnt a lot about the different local markets and the new developments that will be coming up over the next 12 months. There are a lot of exciting new developments and Find Investment Property will be bringing you many of these investment opportunities when they first launch onto the market.

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After arriving in Melbourne last Sunday Night I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in Melbourne. It is not the first time I have been in the city and certainly won’t be the last… as a Sydneysider it is always difficult to make comments about Melbourne being better than Sydney in anything, but I can say Melbourne is a fantastic city that has a vibe like no other in Australia. The city itself is amazing with the most fascinating buildings from grand old heritage churches and museums to funky designed modern office and residential buildings. It really does have a life of its own.

Our first day in Melbourne, we met with developers that crossed the inner city regions. We first went to Collingwood to meet with Caydon, across to busy Richmond to meet with Cubo and then over to Port Melbourne where we met with Salta. The evening was spent in Brunswick. Each one of these places is so different and offers a fantastic lifestyle to anyone that lives or visits the areas.

Collingwood is one of Melbourne’s oldest suburbs with many old heritage buildings. Richmond is going through a period of gentrification with a mix of the ultra modern and tired old buildings that are waiting for a little attention. The three main streets in Richmond that are going through the current gentrification include Victoria, Swan and Bridge Streets. Port Melbourne is a suburb largely dominated by industrial sites at present along the shores through to open parklands, bayside beaches, exclusive apartments and Bay Street’s restaurants and cafes.

Tuesday we explored other suburbs including Prahran, St Kilda and the City. Through the day we met Hamton, Bensons Property Group, Brady Property Group and FKP. A lot of new apartment developments are occurring in these suburbs. Each of these suburbs is all well established.

Wednesday was another day on the road meeting with developments. We met with PDG in the City, Deal Corporation in Toorak, Birner Property Group in Armadale and Ninety Four Feet in North Caulfield. We spent the afternoon exploring some of the suburbs in eastern Melbourne out to Oakleigh.

The suburb Toorak is the glitz and glamour of Melbourne. Definitely the most upmarket strip shops I have visited during the week and very clean. Looking in the window of the local real estate agent, prices are high. Toorak is not only viewed as one of the best (thus also most expensive) suburbs in Melbourne, but also in Australia.

Thursday we met with FDG (Salvo Property Group), Extension Marketing, Fridcorp in South Yarra, Hickory in Richmond and Map Concepts just north of the city in Fitzroy.

Overall the visit was a huge success. Getting feedback from the developers has been positive and we look forward to bring you more new projects from these developers plus many more that we are currently talking to.

It is easy to see why Melbourne has been such a popular market for property investors over the last few years…. it is a great place to live!

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Welcome to the Find Investment Property Blog. Our blog will continue to update you on a weekly basis about the property market around Australia. We intend to report as much information as we can about a number of topics including:

• Real Estate news from around Australia
• New Property listings
• Home Loans and the mortgage market
• Interviews with specialists in the Industry
• Spotlighting companies and people
• Our Website – www.findinvestmentproperty.com.au

As many of you would know, Find Investment Property is a new property portal in the Australian market with a focus on assisting our website users with buying new properties around Australia. Our portal has a number of premium features that can help make your decision a little bit easier when buying off the plan from local or interstate locations.

Property listings

• Our Property listings provide you with significantly more data than any other property portal in Australia. We provide as much information as possible as directed by the Developer or Agent listing the property
• Complementing the listing information we provide additional data such as the location of surrounding amenities (Shops, schools, hospitals, etc), suburb, region and state profiles in our research library as well as profiles on the Developer and Architect involved in the development.
• We will also be adding demographic information on a suburb and state level in the near future which has been sourced directly from the Australian Bureau of Statistics
• We give our users the ability to research a location first before selecting a property
• Our Knowledge Centre will become a rich source of information for those looking for more information about buying property. This has only recently been launched and we are currently seeking more companies to contribute articles to help both owner occupiers and investors using our site.

Property blog
As mentioned previously our blog will be used to update our users on a weekly basis about the property market around Australia.

Twitter
For small updates about our listings and information that comes to our attention that we feel should be broadcast as quickly as possible, you can follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/markmendel

Contributors
We hope to have a number of contributors on our blog over the next few months which will help give everyone a broader perspective on the property market. We are currently looking for experts in relevant areas of the property market to help contribute. If you wish to, or you know anyone that would like to help contribute please feel free to contact us.

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The Find Investment Property team is currently exhibiting at the Home Buyers Show in Brisbane. Its been a fantastic event as many attendees have discovered who we are and they have all asked many questions. We will provide you with some more information about the event at a later date. For some they were able to get cheap tickets by using our special promotional code so if you intend to visit either the Sydney or Melbourne Home Buyers Shows, please check back with us to find out what our special promotion code is to get cheap tickets.

Thank you to those that visited us at thoe property expo and we look forward to seeing you on our main site: www.findinvestmentproperty.com.au

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Home Buyers Show Brisbane

Brisbane Property Expo on 13th and 14th June 2009 at the Brisbane Exhibition Centre. Perfect for property investors and home buyers.

Find Investment Property is excited to announce that we will be participating at the upcoming Home Buyer Show at the Brisbane Exhibition Centre on Saturday 13 and Sunday 13 June. It is the only major event in Australia dedicated to helping people actually buy or sell a new or established home or apartment whether as a primary residence or investment property.

The dream of home ownership is alive and well in Australia, and with interest rates at record lows, property prices cooling, substantial Government grants still available and a strong rental market, home buyers and property investors are returning to the market in large numbers.

Now more than ever, home buyers and investors need to do their research, understand market conditions, and have access to all the right independent advice from reliable sources to make informed buying decisions to enable them to get on the right path to the right property.

The Home Buyer Show will provide first, second and third time property buyers with all the information they need to help discover the smart way to finance, find and buy a home or investment property – direct from the experts.

Some of the major show highlights include:

• Free seminars from Australia’s leading property and finance experts in government and industry associations
• Master Builders Zone – Master Builders members, Queensland’s leading building services companies, will be showcasing a wide range of new homes, display villages and house & land packages.
• Property Investor Zone (sponsored by Find Investment Property)- educating property investors of all levels including all the latest investment properties for sale on the market today with loads of experts on hand to provide independent, impartial advice.
• Apartment Living Zone – showcasing some of the latest apartment, unit and townhouse developments in SE Queensland

As part of a special promotion, we are pleased to offer all of our clients, partners and friends unlimited $5 tickets to the Home Buyer Show which are normally $15. Simply visit the website www.homebuyershow.com.au and when purchasing tickets quote the special promotional code FIP.

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It has come to our attention that the new apartment development located at Sydney Olympic Park will be made available to the public very shortly. This landmark project is one of the most exciting and unique projects in Sydney and is the first in the Sydney Olympic Park precinct.

Sydney Olympic Park is going to become a master planned community that will fully be completed by 2030. Since 2000, more than $1.1billion of new developments has been secured at Olympic Park, while over the past 2 years over $276 million worth of projects has been approved. There are 6,000 new dwellings being planned to accomodate 14,000 residents along with a new private hospital which is due for comepltion in 2010. A 90-place child care facility has also been approved for development, along with a 100,000sqm education campus which has been planned for the park. There are also a number of corporations that are relcoating to the Sydney Olympic Park bringing 28,500 jobs.

We will release more details about this amazing landmark development of new apartments in Sydney Olympic Park once we have approval from the developer.

You will be able to find these new apartments on the Find Investment Property portal.

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This was the title of a press release that we sent out in early February. the point of the press release was to advise that the market was going to go into shock when it came to the number of first home buyers hitting the market with the anticipated end date of the boosted First Home owners grant. Needless to say, we were spot on and probably the first to predict it, although a fairly obvious predicition. We had coverage on Channel 9 news and in a number of local papers such as the North Shore Times in Sydney.

We predicited this was going to occur based on the grant expiring, rent becoming more expensive then mortgage repayments in some areas and very low interet rates. Our predicitons were confirmed with agents and developers over the last 2 months stating that anything under $600,000 was flying out the door. The rush was on from First home buyers to secure a property before the grant expired. Further to this the banks have been making it difficult for some as lending criteria has changed and the huge demand for new loan applications has slowed banks cycles rates dramtically.

Now we will wait to see how the Government reacts to what has occured since October 08 and what adjustments if any they will make to the boosted FHBG.

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Our website Find Investment Property is finally up and running after 12 months of research, design and development. It is amazing to see it come alive after working with it for so long. We are really happy with the final result and the inititial response from developers and browsers has been fantastic. We are slowly building our content on the site and we are tweaking the site to ensure a smooth operation for our users. Look out for the Knoweldge Centre that will be added shortly along with more calculators.

The site has been live since late January 09. We went live with only 3 projects and currently we have over 65 and this is increasing every week. Our aim is to have every new apartment, townhouse and land estate listed over the next 12 months. With your help we can do this. Feel free to suggest developments for us to add. You can do that in the comments section.

 Below is our first media release for our launch:

www.findinvestmentproperty.com.au  is Australia’s first property portal dedicated to providing both investors and home-buyers with the best new-build and off-the-plan property deals available across the country, as well as enough comprehensive research and market data to make an on the spot decision to buy.

The progressive property portal is a one-stop-shop and all round information hub, where developers from across the country can list their unbeatable real estate opportunities in a clear and consistent format, allowing for easy comparison of units.

The website supersedes all others of its kind by employing a range of brand new features and capabilities, allowing easy access to a wealth of information which savvy investors must take into account before sealing the deal. This includes details of developers and agents, statistics on sales and rental markets, as well as listings of local amenities such as schools and details of transport links, giving investors the ability to make well informed decisions.

In addition to the information on each property and its locality, the website will also contain a dedicated ‘Knowledge Centre’ from April 2009. Updated regularly, this unique tool will provide members with relevant news articles and market commentary from industry experts, allowing readers to keep their fingers on the pulse of the national real estate market and take action accordingly on individual investments.  
 
The Find creators set themselves the task of delivering the portal to the market place after identifying the need for investors and home-buyers to be fully educated about the property and the location they are buying in.

Mark Mendel, the founder of Find said, “We have had an overwhelming amount of feedback from investors and home-buyers which would indicate there is a real demand for this type of website. It has become increasingly important that prospective purchasers carry out thorough due diligence before purchasing, given the current economic climate. But despite the negativity surrounding financial markets, with more interest rate cuts forecast and the recent tripling of first-home-buyers grants many experts are advising it’s a great time to buy property. It’s just a question of ensuring purchasers have enough information to decide on the best deal.”

Investors and owner-occupiers alike are increasingly utilising the internet’s resources to purchasing property off-the-plan, but Find will create a property data hub where they will not only find information on what’s for sale, but also be able to read articles by industry experts about ancillary aspects within the buying process. The site is designed to ensure that investors have all the relevant information they need to make a decision at their finger tips.

Mr Mendel continued, “One of the real benefits to investors purchasing interstate or from overseas, is that it will negate the necessity of a site visit because everything one needs to know about the locality will be readily available.”

Please continue to visit both our website and our blog and feel free to provide comments on anything we may have blogged about.

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