http://www.investmentpropertyblog.com.au investing in property australia lifestyle blog Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:26:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You might think it’s a no brainer – after all the devastation caused by the global credit crunch – that property is a no contest winner. You might be right.  Your home is the best investment you are likely to have made. In the constant debate over shares versus property, ... http://www.investmentpropertyblog.com.au/property-or-shares-which-is-best/ Is there really a housing shortage in Australia? Certainly affordability factors in the big cites of Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne suggest that prices are still in the hard-to-afford range. And recent reports indicate a rental squeeze in Sydney has resulted in rents increasing substantially over the past 18 months. Fundamentals ... http://www.investmentpropertyblog.com.au/housing-shortage-in-australia/ 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 ... http://www.investmentpropertyblog.com.au/find-house-and-land/ Below is an article written by John McGrath on what could be the future of real estate ownership in Australia. It is something I have been suggesting for a long time and is only now starting to be thought about by other 'experts' in the industry. Buying a property as an ... http://www.investmentpropertyblog.com.au/rent-and-invest-to-stay-ahead-of-the-game/ New laws for landlords and tenants come into effect on the 31st January. Make sure you know your rights after these changes take effect. The new laws would create a dispute resolution process which, for the first time, would enable tenants to get a tribunal order to remove their name from ... http://www.investmentpropertyblog.com.au/new-landlord-rules/ The latest report by BIS Shrapnel, commissioned by QBE, forecasts median house price growth across the country with growth of 20% in Perth, Sydney and Adelaide over the next 3 years. With mixed feelings about the Australian property market from local and foreign economists, this most recent report provides those looking ... http://www.investmentpropertyblog.com.au/australian-property-prices-to-rise/ Property Investors and Home Buyers have welcomed the move by the NSW State Government to remove the payment of Stamp Duty for those that purchase off the plan before construction begins and discount it when construction has started. This is applicable for all purchasers under $600,000. Once again it is the ... http://www.investmentpropertyblog.com.au/nsw-stamp-duty-cut/ The government has once again decided to slug property buyers with another tax that they hope is going to raise them $90million a year. The newly conceived Sales Tax is to start on 1 July and is going to be calculated on all sales of residential property over $500,000. Any ... http://www.investmentpropertyblog.com.au/another-nsw-tax-for-property-buyers-sales-tax/ NSW Landlords are under threat from new changes that were brought to their attention in late 2009. At this stage these changes to the Residential Tenancy Act are just proposed and are yet to be introduced into the NSW Parliment. This is scheduled to occur in 2010 so if NSW ... http://www.investmentpropertyblog.com.au/nsw-landlords-threatened/ The folloing is a media release from the Housing Industry Association: Housing Shortage Tracking to 500,000 by 2020 The Housing Industry Association, Australia’s largest building industry organisation, today released its inaugural Housing to 2020 report. The report finds that if current building trends persist, then Australia’s cumulated housing shortage would reach 466,000 ... http://www.investmentpropertyblog.com.au/australian-housing-shortgage/